Question: What kind of musician does Neil Hannon and Stephen Malkmus have in common?

Context articles: Mirror Traffic
The Crust Brothers
Liberation (The Divine Comedy album)
Neil Hannon
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins
Cut Your Hair
Stephen Malkmus (album)
Range Life (song)
Stephen Malkmus

Mirror Traffic is an album by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, released on August 23, 2011 by Matador Records.
 It is the first collaboration between Stephen Malkmus and producer Beck and also the last album to feature drummer Janet Weiss, who moved on to become a member of Wild Flag.
 As of November 2013, the album has sold 30,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The Crust Brothers, a band formed by Stephen Malkmus and members of Silkworm (Michael Dahlquist, Tim Midgett, and Andy Cohen), released one album, "Marquee Mark", a live recording of their December 5, 1997, show at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, Washington.
 The show was a benefit for the Washington Wilderness Coalition.
 The band stuck exclusively to covers (Malkmus sang lead on Silkworm's "Never met a man I didn't like"), refusing to play any Pavement songs—notably the requested "Summer Babe."
 Of the 12 covers on "Marquee Mark", seven are from Bob Dylan & The Band's "The Basement Tapes".
Liberation is a 1993 album by The Divine Comedy, released on Setanta.
 It was the second album to be released by The Divine Comedy, although the band's leader, Neil Hannon, often refers to it as the first due to the stylistic differences of the earlier album, "Fanfare for the Comic Muse".
 The album was recorded over the space of twelve days in March, 1993 by Hannon and Darren Allison.
 Hannon played most of the instruments on the album, while Allison was the recording engineer and drummer.
Edward Neil Anthony Hannon (born 7 November 1970) is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter.
 He is the creator and front man of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy, and is the band's sole constant member.
 Hannon wrote the theme tunes for the sitcoms "Father Ted" and "The IT Crowd".
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks is a rock band consisting of Stephen Malkmus, Mike Clark, Joanna Bolme, and Jake Morris.
 Malkmus was the main singer and songwriter behind the influential 1990s indie rock band Pavement.
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins is a double album by Pavement released on October 26, 2004.
 It contains the band's second album, "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" (1994) in its entirety, as well as 37 of the band's other songs from that era, 25 of which (the entire second disc) were previously unreleased.
 The album also contains a 62-page booklet of liner notes, which contain photographs, artwork, accounts from vocalist/guitarist Stephen Malkmus and guitarist Scott Kannberg (a.k.a. "Spiral Stairs"), and notes Malkmus wrote for "Melody Maker" about each of the songs on the original album.
 The liner notes also feature a surreal and sensationalistic "interview" between Matador's Gerard Cosloy and the fictitious "Rob Jurkface".
 According to Cosloy, he took questions by Pavement's biographer, Rob Jovanovic, changed them slightly, and wrote silly answers for them.
"Cut Your Hair" is a song by American rock band Pavement from their second album, "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain."
 It was written by Pavement songwriter and lead singer Stephen Malkmus.
 The song snidely attacks the importance of image in the music industry.
 In one verse, Malkmus sarcastically recites a fictitious ad looking for a musician to join a band: "advertising looks and chops a must/ no big hair".
Stephen Malkmus is the debut album by Stephen Malkmus, released on February 13, 2001 by Matador Records.
 Malkmus had planned to create the record by himself, or through a smaller, local label, but eventually accepted the offer Matador asked, and he released it.
 Pre-release promotional CDs of the album exist under the working titles "Jicks" and "Swedish Reggae".
 Malkmus intended to release the album as The Jicks, but Matador insisted that the album be released under his own name.
 The album peaked at #124 in the US and #49 in the UK.
"Range Life" is a song by Pavement, the third single from their 1994 album "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain".
 The song attracted attention with controversial lyrics that seemed to mock alternative rock superstars the Smashing Pumpkins and the Stone Temple Pilots; Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan expressed his displeasure in magazine interviews, while songwriter Stephen Malkmus maintained that his words had been misinterpreted and no insult was intended.
 Regardless, Pavement, which was due to tour for Lollapalooza in 1994, got kicked out when the Smashing Pumpkins, the headlining act, threatened to cancel their Lollapalooza dates if Pavement played.
 Pavement would eventually play Lollapalooza the next year.
 An early 1993 demo of the song did not feature this verse; guitarist Spiral Stairs recalled in 2004 that when Malkmus first revealed these new lyrics to his bandmates at the New York City recording sessions for "CRCR", "we almost lost our lunch from laughing so much."
 The single was not commercially released in the USA; it was issued by the band's UK label at the time, Big Cat.
 Both B-sides are outtakes from the "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" sessions and are included on the 2004 of that album.
 This song was one of many to be included in the group's greatest hits album "".
Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966) is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement.
 He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.