The Hard Quartet – “Lies (Something You Can Do)” & “Coreopsis Trail”

Last year, four indie rock lifers got together to start a new band and to release an album. The Hard Quartet is the team of Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Chavez’s Matt Sweeney, the Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly, and the Dirty Three’s Jim White. (All four of them have done way more things than those four bands; I’m just using music-blogger shorthand here.) The Hard Quartet released their self-titled debut and played their first shows last fall. Now, they’re getting ready to head out on t...

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