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Stephen Malkmus’s New Band and Extra Tradition Picks


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It’s Friday; right here’s what we’ve received occurring, as a result of we will’t all spend our days studying Jean Cocteau by the pool like Jacob Elordi.

What was/is Indie Sleaze?

What can we imply after we use the phrase “indie”? What don’t we imply? This week on the location, GQ correspondent Meaghan Garvey examined the alleged revival of one thing known as “indie sleaze,” a catchall time period for a post-Y2K aesthetic characterised by “sexy commercials, flash pictures, wild membership nights, and quaint expertise.” These items are (once more, allegedly) trending anew, due to artists just like the Dare and Charli XCX—who even pulled once-ubiquitous celebration photographer and indie-sleaze-aesthetic-definer the Cobrasnake from the Sparks-addled mists of time to shoot flash-blasted candids of Lorde, Billie Eilish, Rachel Sennott, and others at her thirty second party.

What’s really being “revived” right here is unclear—as Garvey dives deeper into indie sleaze’s supposed 2024 manifestations, she finds solely repurposed signifiers of what was known as “hipster” tradition, categoric vagueness (a Spotify playlist that collapses style and historical past by yoking collectively the Dare, M.I.A., classic chillwave, and the Postal Service—woman, so complicated!), plus many, many millennials decrying the entire phenomenon as one huge foist. “After all,” Garvey writes, “they’re largely chatting with themselves, having skilled for the primary time their youth tradition repackaged for a technology whose standing in goal market demographics has lastly eclipsed their very own.”

A particular new band

After all, earlier than it was a quasi-resurgent varietal of sleaze, “indie” had a really completely different connotation, and it’s onerous to consider two guys extra synonymous with it than Pavement cofounder Stephen Malkmus and Chavez/Superwolf guitarist Matt Sweeney (who was rocking an arguably indie-sleaze-ish mustache all the way in which again within the ’90s, when virtually no one else on the scene dared to develop one besides Chris Cornell—RIP).

Final 12 months Malkmus and Sweeney quietly joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Emmett Kelly and Soiled Three drummer Jim White to kind a brand new band, the Exhausting Quartet, and recorded 15 songs out at Rick Rubin’s spot in Malibu; you may hear the by-turns-winsome-and-rawkish outcomes on their self-titled debut album, out there at present by the standard means. (Finest one-two punch: the Malkmus-sung “Heel Freeway” into Sweeney’s “Killed by Dying,” loveliest tune ever to share a title with a Motorhead music that begins, “In the event you squeeze my lizard, I’ll put my snake on you.”)

All 4 members spoke to GQ correspondent Sam Sodomsky about beginning a brand new chapter collectively. “These guys are fuckin’ cool,” Malkmus says, confessing that his inside monologue of their presence goes one thing like this: “Am I cool or am I a poseur?Possibly I’m simply…a dad from the ’90s.” (If Stephen Malkmus worries he’s washed, is there hope for any of us?)

Heartstopper, Joker, and Extra

Talking of cool dads/2000s indie music: Ezra Koenig wore Hokas to play a shock gig together with his band Vampire Weekend on the sidewalk in entrance of New York hipster-oasis Time Once more, per this report by GQ’s senior vogue author and Time Once more bureau chief Sam Hine; click on by to glimpse Koenig’s kicks within the pictures by GQ visuals editor Bowen Fernie, who additionally captured photographs of some exclusive-to-this-show VW merch and (that is one way or the other essentially the most Vampire Weekend factor about this story) a CitiBike site visitors jam.

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