Blog: Stereogum

Over the past year or so, Stephen Malkmus and his Jicks, Mark Ibold and his Sonic Youth, and Bob Nastanovich and his IKEA have been getting more column space, but Scott Kannberg, aka Pavement co-founder Spiral Stairs, is back and ready for some of his own. He's released a couple albums as Preston School Of Industry, but takes full credit for The Real Feel , making it something of a solo debut. Of course, "solo" rarely means "solo," so Kannberg was joined by Australian rock band Gersey (Spiral spent a bit of time in Melbourne before returning [...]

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