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Hard Quartet — With Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus and Chavez’s Matt Sweeney — Re-Create the Rolling Stones’ ‘Waiting on a Friend’ Video in New Clip
Hard Quartet, a new group featuring Pavement's Stephen Malkmus, recreated the Rolling Stones' iconic 'Waiting on a Friend' video for their new single.
It would probably annoy the Hard Quartet — which features Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Chavez/ Superwolves’ Matt Sweeney, the Dirty Three’s Jim White and Bonnie Prince Billy/ Ty Segall alum Emmett Kelly — very much to be called and indie supergroup, but as the words above show, the shoe fits. The group has announced its eponymous debut album will be arriving Oct. 4 on Matador Records, and did so in supreme fashion with a video for “Rio’s Song” that almost perfectly mimics the Rolling Stones’ iconic 1981 clip for “Waiting on a Friend,” down to the same building and bar on St. Marks Place in New York City’s East Village. “Soon, the whole group is reflecting and laughing and offering a window into the free-wheeling process that informs their proudly leaderless new collaboration: an idea first proposed by Sweeney over the phone to Malkmus during the early days of the pandemic.
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