“I hate being tan,” Stephen Malkmus said almost immediately, standing in the lobby of a Midtown hotel. Since the 1989 debut of Pavement, the curious indie-rock band Mr. Malkmus led, he’s been an antihero for the brainy, self-conscious and fearful — the indoor kids, in other words. These days, Mr. Malkmus, who is 51, lives in Portland, Ore., where he and his wife, the sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins, are raising two children. Over a brunch of avocado toast, he talked affably about his “terrible” singing voice, the Captain & Tennille and why he rarely discusses his family. No one has the singing voice they wish they had.

Source: New York Times May 14, 2018 14:48 UTC