Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

I'm super excited to be in the studio with Stephen Malkmus, who has a new solo album called Groove Denied.

But the question is, what would the album have been called if the groove had not been

denied?

I can't be the first person to ask that, but I haven't seen the answer anywhere.

Well, that was a working title before some of this

Grooved Tonight narrative started already based on some of the ways

that I chop beats, you know, I kind of deliberately

keep them off the grid and stuff. so that combined with just maybe sort of a

plaint of the modern time trying to do something you know be yourself and you keep getting pushed

like in a Tetris game off to other actually a different game

whatever one where you would block paths and you know you're led this other way which

wasn't the way you wanted to go but yeah and it just all those things combined with this story of the record being

unacceptable for release because of Swashing Post journalists, you know, that was really digging for a story got brought out but it's the kind of thing

that if it hadn't happened it actually would have been good to make it up because it

provides a very helpful hook for people to talk about the record that's true

something to talk about sides record. That's true. Something to talk about besides the music. I mean it all worked out in the end it came out. I'm happy with it. There's not even past tense because we're still talking about it.

There's actually at least one previous song it's kindling for the

master which is like a mid-2000s song which is actually let's hear that. Re-bombing, can name for the master, can name for the master, can name for the master.

And it's, to me, very much in the vein of this record, is there a connection there?

Well, that was different because that's recorded on tape and it did have some triggered drums and it was kind of a

Lofi funk workout by my standards for sure you know I'm going to work out by my standards, for sure.

...