Stephen Malkmus Tour Dates:
Tue. March 2 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music CafeWed. March 3 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner HallThu. March 4 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia HallFri. March 5 - Louisville, KY @ HeadlinersSat. March 6 - Nashville, TN @ Cannery BallroomSun. March 7 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal WestTue. March 9 - Asheville, NC @ Orange PeelWed. March 10 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s CradleThu. March 11 - Richmond, VA @ The NationalFri. March 12 - Washington, DC @ Black CatSat. March 13 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union TransferSun. March 14 - New York, NY @ Webster HallTue. March 16 - Boston, MA @ RoyaleWed. March 17 - Burlington, VT @ Higher GroundThu. March 18 - Montreal, QC @ L’AstralFri. March 19 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music HallSat. March 20 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland BallroomSun. March 21 - Detroit, MI @ Majestic TheatreFri. April 9 - Denver, CO @ Gothic TheatreSat. April 10 - Omaha, NE @ The Waiting RoomSun. April 11 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada TheaterMon. April 12 - Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s BallroomTue. April 13 - Dallas, TX @ Granada TheaterWed. April 14 - Austin, TX @ The MohawkFri. April 16 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow PalaceSat. April 17 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent BallroomSun. April 18 - San Diego, CA @ Belly UpMon. April 19 - Los Angeles, CA @ El ReyTue. April 20 - San Francisco, CA @ The FIllmoreThu. April 22 - Portland, OR @ Wonder BallroomFri. April 23 - Vancouver, BC @ ImperialSat. April 24 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

Physical copies are limited to 250.

I keep pinching myself to make sure I’m alive. Have we all been unknowingly transported into some cruel alternate universe where what was once confined to imagination has become reality? As I write this, California is burning and a pandemic is ravaging the globe. Police are murdering innocent people of color at-will, domestic terrorism is being thinly veiled as patriotism, facts and logic are ignored, a cartoonish, malevolent blob is nearing totalitarian control, and love is lost. This can’t be real.
I began writing Black Snow roughly two years ago after finding out my wife was pregnant. The process served as a means of coping with the relentless anxiety and bouts of depression that polluted my expected joy. How could I bring a child into a world on the verge of collapse?
The record is a non-linear, fictional collage, set in the not-so-distant future, following the destruction of our climate and the subsequent disintegration of modern society. The songs are primarily narrated from varying first person perspectives: the last standing bristlecone pine, a virus unearthed by fracking (this one was written a year before Covid hit and obviously feels eerily relevant now), the collective voice of animals subjected to human wrath, an estranged lover in a drought-parched Northern Californian landscape, a post-apocalyptic traveler who unearths a working smartphone, the self-serving climate change denier, a father and son choosing optimism and action over apathy and surrender. Other songs are merely descriptive paintings: the Bund neighborhood of Shanghai completely submerged and reclaimed by nature on account of rising sea levels. Consider this a warning. Fiction is finding its way from far-flung to here and now.