"The highly anticipated "Placed Under the Bus" EP from my side project Utter Nonsense is now ready for pre-order!!! First 500 lucky buyers will get theirs on limited edition school bus yellow vinyl. B-side contains a live version of the cult favorite "Fckya!" Brought to you exclusively by Ragman Records, and sorry...you will NOT receive an mp3 download coupon." - Gary Smith
Credit to Ton Cold
With Pavement’s year-long reunion tour now complete, the members of the acclaimed indie outfit are moving on to different ventures. Multi-instrumentalist Bob Nastanovich is now a horse racing reporter, and the band’s frontman, Stephen Malkmus, is readying a new album with his other band, The Jicks. Said effort, titled Mirror Traffic, will hit stores August 23rd via Matador Records.
As previously reported, Malkmus’ fifth post-Pavement LP, and first since 2008′s Real Emotional Trash, was produced by the one and only Beck Hansen. According to Matablog, the end result “makes a compelling case that after some 22 years in the public eye, Malkmus’ full range of musical and lyrical capabilities had yet to be previously explored.”
“The casual virtuosity (and staggering guitar invention) won’t necessarily come as a shock, nor will the rapier wit of one of contemporary rock’s brightest minds. But without dissing prior works that we deeply love, we can promise that ‘Mirror Traffic’ is the album that ties together Stephen’s skill-set like none of it’s predecessors.”
Tour dates and an mp3 preview are said to be coming shortly. Matablog also adds that this will be the final Jicks album to feature the drumming of Janet Weiss. Jakes Morris, best known as the drummer for The Joggers, will assume the same position in the Jicks for upcoming shows.
Landed in Dublin after a half hour flight from Glasgow. Took the bus into town and started to wall to out hostel. It was this walk through town that blew me away. This city is incredible. So old and nice and packed with pubs and people. So bizarre being in a pub that is from the 1100's when the ones from the 90s look the same. Everyone here is so nice and they really do take pride in their Guinness. Something weird though is my total lack of the infamous Guinness farts and shits. This must be the good stuff they have here. We spent days walking and eating and pub jumping. We hit the Jameson brewery which was fun. They have 12 year old Jameson that you can only get at that bar. We went to a Phil Lynott exhibit which pumped me up a lot. I have a lot of videos and pix to show. Today we are going back to the Guinness factory and then flying to London late tonight. We have a 6am flight to Split in the morning. Fkya!!