Stephen Malkmus (born May 30th, 1966, Santa Monica, California) is an indie… Read Full Bio ↴Stephen Malkmus (born May 30th, 1966, Santa Monica, California) is an indie-rock musician, a former member of the bands Pavement, Silver Jews, and the The Crust Brothers. His works released under his own name or as part of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks include Stephen Malkmus (2001. with The Jicks), Pig Lib (2003, with The Jicks), Face the Truth (2005), Real Emotional Trash (2008, with The Jicks) and several singles.

Malkmus knew fellow Pavement songwriter Scott Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs), of the Preston School of Industry, since childhood in Stockton, California. Malkmus attended the University of Virginia, where his father is also an alumnus. While at UVA, he also met Bob Nastanovich, another member of Pavement.

Malkmus currently resides in Portland, Oregon with his partner, artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins. In 2005, Hutchins gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Lottie.

In 2008 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks released the album, Real Emotional Trash — the group’s first album with new drummer Janet Weiss from Sleater-Kinney. In 2020, Stephen released Traditional Techniques. Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the album as "an amiably trippy and decisively mellow psych-folk adventure."

Wicked Wanda
Stephen Malkmus Lyrics

Wicked, wicked Wanda
What was it that spawned ya
Who's responsible for your trash
A pretty little spider
With Hollywood in inside her
And no time to accommodate

A chicken scratch
A bare ass back
I never

Avoid your screams
A paralyzed dream
Forever

Wicked, wicked Wanda
I'd rather date Rwanda
Then be involved in your moral trap
A pretty little spider
With Hollywood inside her
And no time to accommodate

There no kicks
One night jig
A feather
The basement screams
Apparent to me
Forever

To free of doubt and longing
Simple clarity, belonging
In a role untouched by history
To be art of something vaster
Then yourself, the frozen plaster
Breakout of your core categories

Strike...me square
Into the arms of the air
Strike...me square
Into the arms of the air

Stories not reality
I feel like a junk contraption
Truth is, I can't shake this vile fear
When I space out I'm direct
I've got the week or to reflect with
Free to be a temperamental tear

Strike...me square
Into the arms of the air
Strike...me square
Into the arms of the air

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