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Sadie Dupuis: rock 'n' roll camp counselor, poet, songwriter, snack enthusiast. If you don't already want to be her best friend based on that description, Dupuis' solo-moniker-turned-band Speedy Ortiz captures the nonsensical wit of Stephen Malkmus , but is simultaneously ballsier and more self-deprecating. Also like Pavement , Speedy Ortiz inverts ... (more)

Indie rock icon Stephen Malkmus returns to South America this month and will play for the first time in Rio with his band The Jicks at Circo Voador 's stage on Friday, April 26th.

Record Store Day is traditionally more populated with reissues and singles than whole albums of previously unreleased material, but Stephen Malkmus has never been one to follow the status quo.

No, not that one . We're talking about the sixth annual Record Store Day , which pays tribute to the independently-owned record stores that were once ubiquitous but are often now fighting just to stay afloat in in the iTunes and Amazon age.

We're about a week out from Record Store Day 2013 . When it began in 2008, RSD was a celebration of brick-and-mortar stores in the face of digital downloads, offering up exclusive releases to get people out to stores.