Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, last night at the Granada

The crowd at the Granada for Stephen Malkmus Sunday night: 80 percent male, skewing older, a little sleepy. Sunday crowds always seem to be stifling yawns. (You know how some yawn inside their mouths without opening their mouths? There was lots of that.) Expectations for the show seemed mostly to be met — with the exception of the opener, Nurses, for whom expectations were exceeded. I do not often cruise into a venue and head straight for the stage and stay there until the set is over. But that’s what I did upon hearing Nurses. No trip to the bar, no lap of the venue to see what was going on in the crowd.