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Stephen Malkmus Jr. was a part of  The Silver Jews
as well as lead singer and guitar player for
influential indie pioneers Pavement
(band)|Pavement.  He has since released 2 albums
as part of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks:  the
first modestly named after the lead singer himself
in 2001, and Pig Lib in 2003.  Malkmus recorded
his third album, Face The Truth in 2005--said to
be his first true solo album by his label, Matador
Records, though on his own website Malkmus claims
that the Jicks played on every track in some form.
When Pavement first began during the late 80's,
Malkmus lived in Stockton, California and followed
in his father's footsteps to attend college at the
University of Virginia. Malkmus currently resides
in Portland, Oregon with his partner, the artist
Jessica Jackson Hutchins. In 2005 Hutchins gave
birth to the couple's first child, a daughter
named Lottie.

Malkmus was heavily influenced by many significant
artists of the latter 20th century. College radio
would play a part in his music development; Bands
like The Fall (band)|The Fall and lead singer Mark
E. Smith - a band that he would often mimic both
musically and lyrically in songs such as "Conduit
For Sale"  off Pavement (band)|Pavement's landmark
full debut album "Slanted and Enchanted" - and
Sonic Youth whose experimental rock tendencies
would show on Malkmus and Pavement
(band)|Pavement's music through the use of
abstract lyrics, distortion or "white noise"
guitars, and his amateurish "slacker-rock"
approach.

Malkmus would be hailed as being the spear-head of
the underground indie movement in America in the
1990s.  Pavement (band)|Pavement, along with
Sebadoh were anointed the pioneers of the Lo-fi
music indie sub-genre and with it would win the
hearts and minds of purist, indie music followers
in the UK as well as in the USA.