• NEW The Hard Quartet: The Hard Quartet - album review | Song Bar
New album: This seasoned pro supergroup of Stephen Malkmus (Pavement and Jicks), Matt Sweeney (Chavez), Emmett Kelly and Jim White create a marvellously muscular debut collection of indie, rock, blues punk, but also beautiful Byrds-like numbers

• ALBUM REVIEW: The Hard Quartet – S/T | Narc. Magazine
Michael O’Neill discovers an essential masterclass in glorious noise from the impressive supergroup

• The Hard Quartet: The Hard Quartet Review - delighting rockers | Indie | The Line of Best Fit
What’s impressive about The Hard Quartet is the work they've put in, even if they don’t always want to be caught doing so.

• Indie Supergroup The Hard Quartet Play Their First Show Ever: Watch | Stereogum | Oct. 11, 2024, 2:21 p.m.
Just a few months ago, the world first learned the existence of the Hard Quartet, the new indie supergroup of Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, Emmett Kelly, and Jim White. Last week, the Hard Quartet’s self-titled debut album was released. Thursday night, the new band played their first-ever live show at the Belasco in Los Angeles.

• ‘We are pretty awesome’: Meet indie rock’s new supergroup | The Sydney Morning Herald | Oct. 10, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
The Hard Quartet, featuring Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus and Dirty Three’s Jim White, are coming to Australia.

• The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music ... | Clash Magazine | Oct. 4, 2024, 9:02 a.m.
The background to how the band get together is relaxed, downbeat, with a purpose. They have known each other’s music for years, if not decades, and mutual respect is followed by conversations, which lead to the forming of a supergroup. —. —. This might all be okay, the great news relates to the sound they make together, it is glorious.

• The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet review • DIY Magazine | DIY | Oct. 4, 2024, midnight
For The Hard Quartet, it genuinely feels as if anything goes. Play Video. Tags: Album Reviews, Reviews, The Hard Quartet. #Ad Find ‘The Hard Quartet’ at Rough Trade. Buy Now. #AD The Hard Quartet Tickets. 22.10.24 The Electric Ballroom, Camden Town. ... Album Review. Stephen Malkmus — Traditional Techniques. 3-5 Stars.

• Watch Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, Jim White & Emmett Kelly talk new ... | BrooklynVegan | Sept. 23, 2024, midnight
The Hard Quartet, the supergroup of Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), Matt Sweeney (Chavez), Jim White (The Dirty Three) and Emmett Kelly (Cairo Gang, Ty Segall), will release their debut album next...

• The Hard Quartet – “Our Hometown Boy” | Stereogum | Sept. 10, 2024, midnight
The Hard Quartet’s self-titled album arrives next month, and we’ve already heard their singles “ Earth Hater ” and “ Rio’s Song.” Today, they’ve shared a new number called “Our Hometown Boy”...

• “The Hard Quartet”, premier album emballant du supergroupe de Stephen Malkmus | Télérama
Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney et Jim White, quatre monuments de l’indie rock américain des années 1990, réunis autour d’une collection de courtes chansons séduisantes.

• The Hard Quartet: Drummer Jim White on why rock's not dead | RNZ | Oct. 5, 2024, 2:03 a.m.
The Hard Quartet is a band we think you should pay attention to. They've been called a supergroup, and it's an interesting one because each member has a cult following. Stephen Malkmus is best known for his work with Pavement, Matt Sweeney from Superwolf with Bonnie Prince Billy and Cat Power, and Emmett Kelly, the songwriter and guitarist for The Cairo Gang and who has also collaborated with Will Oldham. The drummer, Jim White, who also plays with Dirty Three and Smog, joins Charlotte Ryan to mark the release of The Hard Quartet's self-titled debut album.

• The Hard Quartet | DIY | Oct. 4, 2024, 6:53 a.m.
The Hard Quartet on DIY.

• ‘The Hard Quartet’ Review: A Lively Indie-Rock Supergroup | Wall Street Journal
Pavement guitarist Stephen Malkmus leads a new band on its self-titled debut album, a loose and energetic collection that channels retro influences into a contemporary sound.

• The Hard Quartet: The Hard Quartet | Pitchfork
Read Arielle Gordon’s review of the album.

• The Hard Quartet : The Hard Quartet | Complex Distractions | Oct. 8, 2024, 10:24 a.m.
I think the majority of folks coming across the new music project The Hard Quartet would scoff at it being called a “supergroup”. But those with their heads in the world of early 90s co…

• Meet Your New Favorite Indie-Rock Super Group | Rolling Stone | Oct. 4, 2024, midnight
They gather together for an indie-rock supergroup of kindred spirits, resulting in a shaggily delightful album of casual guitar kicks. In this corner: Stephen Malkmus, from Pavement and the Jicks.

• The Hard Quartet: The Hard Quartet [Album Review] | The Fire Note
The Hard QuartetThe Hard QuartetMatador Records [2024] "Listening to The Hard Quartet is like sitting in on an intimate conversation between friends who reall

• The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet | Northern Transmissions | Oct. 4, 2024, 7:54 p.m.
The Hard Quartet by The Hard Quartet album review by David Saxum for Northern Transmissions. The band's LP is now out via Matador Records

• Albums Of The Week: The Hard Quartet | The Hard Quartet | Tinnitist | Oct. 4, 2024, 4:33 a.m.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Hard Quartet are a band. But what is a band? A band, perhaps, can be thought of as a body, a corpus, in which physically discrete lifeforms comprise a chimera that shrieks with one voice. In this particular band, which is one of millions in the world today, four players […]

• Stephen Malkmus and the Hard Quartet Discuss How They "Met on the Mean Streets" | Exclaim!
Decades of friendship has turned into a electrifying new supergroup

• The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet | Loud And Quiet
The Hard Quartet album review: a proud time capsule from the dudiest of supergroups

• The Hard Quartet - 'The Hard Quartet' album review | Far Out Magazine | Oct. 3, 2024, 8:45 a.m.
The group consists of Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus of Pavement and The Jicks fame, Matt Sweeney of just about everything, and Jim White of the Dirty Three.