![]() But, of course, they didn't, leaving All This Sounds Gas to languish in future obscurity as yet another post-legendary project that fails to live up to its frontman’s glory days. The album also might have improved, however slightly, if they’d left off the embarrassing quasi-experimental keyboard jam, ‘Blü Sön,’ a 44-second excursion to Planet Shame that makes the Byrds’ ‘Moog Raga’ seem like a monolith of pulsing electronic genius. Nor should we forget the closing paragraph of Pitchfork’s review for Preston School of Industry’s debut, All This Sounds Gas, written by Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber: “All This Sounds Gas might not have been such a weak effort if Kannberg's lyrics actually had anything to say, but nonsense prose has never meshed well with jangly, country-inflected pop.Pitchfork accused his post-Pavement project, the Preston School of Industry, of having “one of the worst bandnames ever.”.Pitchfork called the cover art on Kannberg’s solo effort “absolutely ridiculous.”.The evidence is rock solid, which is exactly the opposite of everything Pitchfork has ever said about Kannberg’s side projects. “Talking to other festival producers it's common that come the day of the show the manager or a band might say no, for a variety of reasons,” a festival promoter said.Īs for the mystery of the wronged musician, we believe we have identified him as Scott Kannberg, also known as Spiral Stairs. ![]() “I don’t think it hurts Pitchfork-if anything it hurts Pavement because fewer people got to see them.” A spokesman for Pitchfork downplayed the severity of the tension, noting that Broken Social Scene also did not give permission to be videotaped, and no one’s feuding with them. “Some of the things he objected to were bitchy, personal attacks that, if someone had said them about me, I wouldn’t have been happy either,” said Pavement’s booking agent. One band member, about whom all we know is that he is not lead singer Stephen Malkmus, took issue with certain remarks about himself and the band that had been published on Pitchfork. According to the Chicago Tribune, the decision stems from a feud between Pitchfork and Pavement it seems the patron saints of apathy are not so laid-back about hurtful Internet comments. Photograph by Masao Nagasaki.Last weekend’s live stream of Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival, hosted by America’s most seminal music-review Web site, did not include video of the headliner, Pavement.
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