How to get Stephen Malkmus to open up about life and his new album? Take him to a Lakers game

As the Laker Girls twirled to a thumping dance remix of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” indie rocker Stephen Malkmus leaned back in his seat at Staples Center and explained a counterintuitive idea: Not enough classic-rock legends have died over the last few years.

“More of them need to go,” said Malkmus,…