Pitchfork

With Sleater-Kinney having returned into the indie band ether, Janet Weiss' arms just aren't getting the drum-time they crave. Sure, Quasi keeps her busy, but Weiss is no one-band gal. Now comes news that the cymbal-crasher and tom-thumper is lending her skillz to another much-loved act: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.

While Weiss has jammed with the Jicks before, joining them for an encore at a 2003 London gig, The Portland Mercury is reporting that she is now apparently an official member of the band. Most recently, Weiss drummed with Malkmus and Co. at the Jupiter Hotel in Portland this past Friday (September 29).

According to a representative at the Jicks' label, Matador Records, "the Jicks aren't very active" presently, so it's unclear whether Weiss' kit position is permanent. However, with erstwhile Jicks drummer John Moen now a full-time Decemberist, the position is certainly open. Due to the superb alliterative value of "Janet Weiss Joins, Jams With Jicks", we hope she sticks around.

Meanwhile, Sleater-Kinney fans take note! Your fav band is calling for submissions for an S-K "retrospective DVD", so if you're sitting on contraband footage of the trio in action, cough it up already, wipe off the phlegm (ew), and send it to the address on Sleater-Kinney's website.