Watch Stephen Malkmus Cover Black Crowes, Jarvis Cocker Cover Sham 69 At Vice 20th

Stephen Malkmus at Vice

Watch Stephen Malkmus Cover Black Crowes, Jarvis Cocker Cover Sham 69 At Vice 20th

Stephen Malkmus at Vice

Back in December, Vice threw itself a grand and ridiculous 20th anniversary party, bringing a lineup of entertainers as deep and impressive as it was strange: Lil Wayne! Scarlett Johansson! Meredith Graves! Jonah Hill covering Drake! Stephen Malkmus was one of the evening’s entertainers. Backed by a house band that included the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner and Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt, Malkmus sang the Black Crowes’ 1992 hit “Remedy,” which happens to be #2 on our list of the Black Crowes’ best-ever songs. Malkmus is enough of a fan that he actually sang it, without that much obvious irony, but he’s not so much of a fan that he knew the words; he read them off a phone. The Black Crowes, evidently realizing that they’d been bested at their own game, broke up a month later. Meanwhile, Malkmus’ fellow ’90s smart-rock demigod Jarvis Cocker covered Sham 69’s 1979 street-punk classic “If The Kids Are United,” and you best believe he did not need a reminder on those lyrics. Vice has just shared pro videos of both performances, and you can watch them below.

If you couldn’t tell from those two performances, Sham 69 >>>>> Black Crowes, always and forever.

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