Video: Stephen Malkmus: "We Dance" (Live at the Pitchfork Music Festival)
"You serve as an alpha male for this particular culture," Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox told Stephen Malkmus during an interview at this summer's Pitchfork Music Festival. In contrast with all the awkward or self-deprecating indie dudes out there, Malkmus looks completely relaxed and at ease with himself in this video from the festival. Call it privilege if you like. Malkmus puts it more succinctly: "There is no castration fear," he begins, in a solo acoustic performance of the Pavement classic "We Dance", from 1995's beloved Wowee Zowee. "I can't enjoy myself," he repeats, but he doesn't mean it. Even if he does, judging by the dancing happening onstage (yep, that's Malkmus' Pavement bandmate Bob Nastanovich, who also played drums during part of the set), he's the only one. Thanks again to Optimus for making these main stage festival videos possible. See you in the spring at All Tomorrow's Parties.
[original track from Wowee Zowee; out now on Matador]