Crust Bros.

EN-D would like to warn readers that this post intended for pavementfiles. Continued reading is ill-advised unless you are an ardent follower of Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, Silkworm, or maybe the venerable but often-overlooked Preston School of Industry.

Download Three Free Crust Brothers songs right here.

In that grand old tome that is the Fabulous Pleasure manifesto, EN-D eluded to the Crust Brothers, a relatively obscure Pavement side-project that played a few shows and released Marquee Mark an album of live recordings. The Crust Brothers are led by eternal indie patron saint Stephen Malkmus, who shed his Pavement players to cut loose with members of Silkworm, a band from Montana that was also signed to Matador and often wallowed in the same shambling, alternately-tuned, murky waters as our beloved Pavement. Together they cast off their indie cool and dove headfirst into a pool of classic rock covers. Dylan, the Byrds, the Band...... Gladys Knight and Pips?!?!
Anyway, the Crust Bros. hadn't been on EN-D's mind in a while until he noticed that someone from the UK had stumbled onto Fabulous Pleasure looking for them and came up empty handed. We let him down, thought EN-D. That's why he put these mp3's up today, hoping that British guy will come back and take refuge in this concise and convenient zip file. Cheers to you, British guy, and to the Crust Brothers, a poorly-recorded but charmingly loose cover band made up of veteran indie-snobs. Who knew a bar-band could be so fun?

Some amusing videos to round out the shrine. How pathetic can we get here?

A schmaltzy dude interviews S. Malkmus on Fox News


SM plays "Gold Soundz" in Seoul backed by a group of local Korean musicians. The performance is luke-warm but the crowd eats it up. People still talk about with reverence about his pit stop in Seoul.