Beggars Group Canada

  • Home
  • Releases
  • Videos
  • Tour Dates
  • Release Schedule
  • Links
  • Contact
Beggars Canada RSS Feed

Latest From Twitter

Tweets by @BeggarsCanada

Tour Dates

  • 5 June 2023
    The National
    Vancouver - Deer Lake Park (Festival Lawn)
  • 15 June 2023
    Yo La Tengo
    Montreal Corona Theatre
  • 16 June 2023
    Yo La Tengo
    Toronto Phoenix Concert Theatre
  • 21 June 2023
    Bartees Strange
    Sled Island 2023 - Royal Canadian Legion
  • 24 June 2023
    Helado Negro
    Sled Island 2023 - Royal Canadian Legoin
  • 24 June 2023
    Water From Your Eyes
    Sled Island 2023 - The Palomino
  • 27 June 2023
    Water From Your Eyes
    Toronto Baby G
  • 4 July 2023
    black midi
    Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (Club Soda)
  • 4 July 2023
    Future Islands
    Budweiser Stage Toronto (Opening For Weezer)
  • 14 July 2023
    The Smile
    Parc de la Francophonie (FEQ )
  • 15 July 2023
    The Smile
    Laval, Place Bell
  • 16 July 2023
    The Smile
    Ottawa RBC Bluesfest
  • 21 July 2023
    cumgirl8 (Special Guests of Le Tigre)
    Toronto History
  • 22 July 2023
    cumgirl8 (Special Guests of Le Tigre)
    Montreal L'Olympia
  • 25 July 2023
    Mdou Moctar
    Toronto Phoenix Concert Hall
  • 25 July 2023
    King Krule
    Toronto History (SOLD OUT)
  • 26 July 2023
    Mdou Moctar
    Montreal Theatre Fairmount
  • 26 July 2023
    King Krule
    Montreal Corona Theatre (SOLD OUT)
  • 3 August 2023
    Big Thief
    Vancouver Orpheum Theatre (SOLD OUT)
  • 5 August 2023
    The National
    Osheaga
  • 20 August 2023
    The National
    Budweiser Stage Toronto With Special Guests Patti Smith & U.S. Girls
  • 2 September 2023
    Interpol (Special Guests of The Smashing Pumpkins)
    Toronto Budweiser Stage
  • 3 September 2023
    Interpol (Special Guests of The Smashing Pumpkins)
    Ottawa Canadian Tire Center Ottawa
  • 4 September 2023
    Interpol
    Montreal M Telus
  • 19 September 2023
    King Krule
    Vancouver Vogue Theatre (SOLD OUT)
  • 28 September 2023
    Anjimile
    L'entrepot 77 (Pop Montreal)
  • 30 September 2023
    Water From Your Eyes
    l'escogriffe Bar Spectacle (Pop Montreal)
  • 17 October 2023
    This is The Kit
    Toronto Drake Hotel
  • 20 October 2023
    Gilla Band
    Montreal Bar le Ritz PDB
  • 21 October 2023
    Gilla Band
    Toronto Drake Underground
  • 29 October 2023
    This is The Kit
    Vancouver Wise Hall
  • 6 December 2023
    bar italia
    Montreal Sala Rossa
  • 8 December 2023
    bar italia
    Toronto Velvet Underground

Releases

STEPHEN MALKMUS - TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES LP / CD IN STORES MARCH 6

6 March 2020

Stephen Malkmus has announced his new album, Traditional Techniques, out March 6th via Matador,
lead single “Xian Man,” and a North American tour.
Traditional Techniques, Malkmus’ third solo LP without the Jicks (or Pavement), is new phase folk music
for new phase folks, with Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever-evolving lingual
slipstream.
It’s packed with handmade arrangements, modern folklore, and 10 songs written and performed in his
singular voice. An adventurous new album in an instantly familiar mode, Traditional Techniques creates a
serendipitous trilogy with the loose fuzz of the Jicks’ Sparkle Hard (2018) and the solo bedroom
experiments of Groove Denied (2019).
Centered around the songwriter’s 12-string acoustic guitar, and informed by a half-century of folk-rock
reference points, Traditional Techniques is the product of Malkmus and engineer /arranger Chris Funk
(The Decemberists).
Playing guitar is friend-to-all-heads Matt Sweeney (Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Chavez, too many others to
count), who’d previously crossed paths with Malkmus on the opposite end of the longhairs’ map of the
world, most lately gnarling out together back east in the jam conglomerate Endless Boogie.
Malkmus will embark on a North American tour this spring with an entirely new band (more shows will
be announced in the weeks to come). The Traditional Techniques live band is Malkmus (vocals, guitar),
Funk (pedal steel, keys), Sweeney (guitar), Brad Truax (bass), and Jake Morris (drums), joined at times
by Qais Essar (rabab) and Eric Zang (kaval, udu, daf). The band hits Montréal April 16th ((L’Astral) and
April 17 at Toronto Danforth Music Hall.

“An excellent solo career marked by a warmth, humor and generosity.” – Rolling Stone

“Few artists can write a hook as immediately infectious or distinctive as Stephen Malkmus.” – NPR

“He’s remained one of the most consistent musicians working today, delivering muscular melodies and
loose precocity to the acclaim of every project he touches.” – Noisey

It’s called folk music, and it’s taking the country by storm. Stephen Malkmus is only the latest popular
artist to apply this old new approach to their rock and roll sounds.
Created in the spontaneous west coast style adopted so infectiously by young American musicians in this
time of global turmoil, Malkmus took on Traditional Techniques as a kind of self-dare. Conceived while
recording Sparkle Hard with the Jicks at Portland’s Halfling Studio, Malkmus had observed the variety of
acoustic instruments available for use. The idea escalated within a matter of weeks into a full set of
songs and shortly thereafter into a realized and fully committed album. When he returned to Halfling,
Malkmus drew from a whole new musical palette—including a variety of Afghani instruments—to support
an ache both quizzical and contemporary. Stephen Malkmus isn’t one of those “hung up” musicians one
reads about so frequently these days, sequestered in a jungle room of the heart. The jukebox in
Malkmus’s private grotto remains fully updated. Not only is the artist present, but he’s on Twitter.
It’s hard to call Traditional Techniques “long awaited,” because Stephen Malkmus just put out an album
last year, but it’s also exactly that. While he may have taken his sweet time in jumping on the folk music
boom, surely there are those among us who have fantasized about how lovely it might sound if SM would
just get with the times. And it sounds like all that and beyond. Set a day or two aside to transcribe the
lyrics like the Dylanlogists of yore and vibe on the shape of folk to come with Stephen Malkmus.

Selections:
1. ACC Kirtan
2. Xian Man
3. The Greatest Own in Legal
History
4. Cash Up
5. Shadowbanned
6. What Kind Of Person
7. Flowin’ Robes
8. Brainwashed
9. Signal Western
10. Amberjack

Latest Releases

  • STEPHEN MALKMUS - TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES LP / CD IN STORES MARCH 6

    Find out more
  • KING KRULE - MAN ALIVE! RED VINYL LP/LP/CD IN STORES FEB 21

    Find out more
  • Gil Scott-Heron - We're New Again - A reimagining by Makaya McCraven LP / CD in stores Feb 7

    Find out more
  • The Pale Saints - The Comforts Of Madness Ltd Ed Clear Vinyl 2 LP / Standard LP / 2 CD IN STORES JAN 17

    Find out more
  • ALGIERS - THERE IS NO YEAR INDI EXCL LP / LP + 7" / CD IN STORES JAN 17

    Find out more
  • PINEGROVE - MARIGOLD INDIE EXCL LP / LP / CD IN STORES JAN 17

    Find out more
  • b4 greatest hits vol. 1 - Limited Edition LP IN STORES DEC 6

    Find out more
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlândia LTD ED 2 LP in stores Dec 6

    Find out more
Retail Portal / XL / 4ad / Rough Trade / Matador / Beggars Archive