{"id":225,"date":"2004-05-09T21:02:17","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T21:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/stephen_malkmus\/"},"modified":"2004-05-09T21:02:17","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T21:02:17","slug":"stephen_malkmus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/music\/stephen_malkmus\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Malkmus and Jicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the breakup of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matadorrecords.com\/pavement\/\">Pavement<\/a>, SM has re-invented himself, up to a point as a singer songwriter with prog leanings, putting together a tight little outfit called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenmalkmus.com\/dynamic.php\">Jicks<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000056SX9\/qid=1084132480\/sr=2-2\/ref=sr_2_11_2\/026-9212076-2317257\">first <\/a>record,featured some great songs, but felt like a chance to tie up loose ends, finish songs he&#8217;d begun with Pavement, and find a new direction. This he&#8217;s done with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00007KI2R\/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1\/026-9212076-2317257\">Pig Lib<\/a> which is a fantastic, sprawling, solo-strewn patchwork of songs. He sounds like he&#8217;s having a great time, so I thought I&#8217;d give it a mention, along with an entry in the typelist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the breakup of Pavement, SM has re-invented himself, up to a point as a singer songwriter with prog leanings, putting together a tight little outfit called Jicks. The first record,featured some great songs, but felt like a chance to tie up loose ends, finish songs he&#8217;d begun with Pavement, and find a new direction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}