While Michael was enjoying some authentic chillwave at the Pitchfork Music Festival, SOME OF US were stuck in Austin, enjoying all the heat of an outdoor music festival but none of the Civil War punk rock. But, as a nice consolation prize, Pitchfork was streaming sets from the festival on their website. And good stuff too: LCD Soundsystem, Big Boi, Modest Mouse, and the big Sunday headliner: Pavement. Pavement was definitely on the schedule of artists for the webcast (and still is).

Except that the Pavement set was never broadcast, apparently because at the last minute Pavement withdrew their permission. Was it technical issues? Contractual stuff? A desire to make people, you know, pay to see Pavement live? Greg Kot at the Chicago Tribune doesn’t think so:

Why was Pavement excluded? One band member has a beef with Pitchfork’s editorial department. The band’s longtime booking agent, David Viecelli, explained Monday that “one of the band members has some issues with (the Pitchfork e-zine), comments that were made (in past articles) that demeaned that person in the context of Pavement.”

So who had their feelings hurt by Pitchfork? Your first guess may have been enigmatic frontman Stephen Malkmus (who was apparently not in a great mood Sunday night), but Kot said its not him (and it wouldn’t have made much sense anyway since Michael points out that it would be pretty out of character for P4K to bash Malkmus). Instead, a quick look around The Mothership would seem to point to Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg, whose new solo record came out last year and had, uh, lukewarm reception:

In the time since Pavement’s dissolution in 1999, Kannberg has stepped into the role of the frontman with mixed results. Despite the nod to George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass in its title, his debut as the leader of the Preston School of Industry did not reveal him to be an extraordinary songwriter obscured by the flash of his former partner, but rather just a serviceable author of amiable but not especially interesting indie rock

The central problem with the Preston School of Industry albums is that the very things that made Kannberg an effective foil for Malkmus also made him exhausting and dull as the focal point of a band. Whereas he was once the Milhouse Van Houten to Malkmus’ Bart Simpson, he had devolved into being an incoherent indie equivalent of Milhouse’s dad mewling “Can I Borrow a Feeling?”

His style may shift, but Kannberg remains an unambitious songwriter and underwhelming frontman. It could just be that he’s the type of person who best thrives as a second banana. Then again, maybe all he needs is a foil of his own.

We don’t know its Spiral Stairs, but we’re just saying he might have a little empathy for Chris Bosh and an axe to grind with Pitchfork editorial. If you have more information on this developing story, e-mail us at tangledupinwires [at] gmail [dot] come

[Additional, Very Journalistic Reporting by Michael Warshauer.]

“The Internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it… The Internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”

Yes, that’s right. Stop embracing technology and listen to Prince. TUiW will now cease operation.

M.I.A.

Music

July 6
Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Robert Pollard – Moses On A Snail

July 13
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
M.I.A. – /\/\/\Y/\
Panda Bear – Tomboy
Sun Kil Moon – Admiral Fell Promises
The Love Language – Libraries

July 20
The Books: The Way Out
Bill Callahan: Letters to Emma Bowlcut
Department Of Eagles – Archive 2003-2006
Sleigh Bells – Treats (Physical Release)

July 27
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Dean & Britta: 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests
Menomena: Mines
Miniature Tigers: Fortress

Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception

Movies
July 9
Despicable Me
The Kids are Alright

July 14
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

July 16
Inception

July 23
Salt

July 30
Dinner for Schmucks

Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

Other
Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour – July 20

09.04.10 – Stradbally, Ireland – Electric Picnic Festival
09.11.10 – Isle of Wight, UK – Bestival
09.12.10 – Salsbury, UK – End of the Road Festival
09.14.10 – London, UK – London Royal Festival Hall *
09.15.10 – Newcastle, UK – 02 Academy Newcastle *
09.16.10 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowland Ballroom *

* with Wilco

Pitchfork: What do the songs you wrote for Crash and the Boys sound like?

Brendan Canning: They’re really short punk rock jams. One tune is four seconds long– it’s in Napalm Death territory. After that one, someone in the movie yells, “Hey, it’s not a race!” The longest tune we recorded for it was 42 seconds. Another one is a little more in D.R.I. territory. We’re all fans of that type of thrashy music– Charles [Spearin] and Ohad [Benchetrit] played in a metal band growing up. I definitely bought Suicidal Tendencies’ first record when it came out.

Pitchfork: How much of the score that you recorded with Nigel Godrich is in the film?

BC: We haven’t seen the final cut yet, but we did about 10 pieces. We spent five days recording in London coming up with ambient, Feel Good Lost-type stuff. It was thrilling working with Nigel since we’re all such big fans of his work with Radiohead and Beck, and even a little Natalie Imbruglia, too. [laughs] He stayed on the bus with us during our last UK tour for a couple days. We’re definitely pals.

This is pretty awesome news. Bringing Nigel Godrich and Broken Social Scene together for ambient music is such a brilliant idea, I don’t know what it hasn’t happened earlier. The SP vs. The World soundtrack comes out August 10 on ABKCO.

Best Coast – “Boyfriend” [link]

“There’s a lot of very dancey, very funky songs… We try to have these ‘holy fuck’ moments where you’re really having your mind blown, especially if you’re listening to it on headphones.”

Sounds brilliant to me! Barnes recorded the album on his own in Athens before re-recording it with Brion, who’s previous credits include work with Kanye, Fiona Apple, and several film scores. Available now at the Of Montreal website is the albums first single,  “Coquet Coquette,” just by entering your email address. The tracklist, full of song titles only Of Montreal could come with, is below:

False Priest:

01 I Feel Ya’ Strutter
02 Our Riotous Defects [ft. Janelle Monáe]
03 Coquet Coquette
04 Godly Intersex
05 Enemy Gene [ft. Janelle Monáe]
06 Hydra Fancies
07 Like a Tourist
08 Sex Karma [ft. Solange Knowles]
09 Girl Named Hello
10 Famine Affair
11 Casualty of You
12 Around the Way
13 You Do Mutilate?

The Place We Ran From:

01 Northwestern Skies
02 Get on the Road
03 Point Me at Lost Islands
04 Dead American Writers
05 Held in the Arms of Your Words
06 That Silver Necklace
07 I Am a Landslide
08 The Deepest Ocean There Is
09 The Good Book
10 Pieces