Pitchfork

As you may have read a while back in these pages, Preston School of Industry frontman and onetime Pavement foil Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kannberg is serving as guest curator for Calgary Alberta's Sled Island Music Festival, taking place June 25-28 at a number of Calgary hot spots.

Sled Island recently threw quite a few more bands onto its already impressive roster, including Yo La Tengo, Grizzly Bear, Dan Deacon, Okkervil River, Blitzen Trapper, Qui, Tegan and Sara, the Secret Machines, Fucked Up, and Mark "BBQ" Sultan. Oh, and some raggedy lot who call themselves Broken Social Scene. Not bad!

Kannberg's well versed in the BSS M.O., having lent a hand to Kevin Drew's Spirit If... And BSS seem like the kind of people who'd be cool with collaborating with a guy from Pavement again if he was interested. And so it shall be during Preston School of Industry's set at Sled Island, when Kannberg will be joined by members of the Scene, playing mostly material composed specifically for the fest. BSS will play their own set as well.

Preston are also hard at work on a new record set to wrap later this spring. The band have a pre-Sled Island date scheduled as well: On May 17 in Seattle, they'll open for the Posies, who will be playing a 20th anniversary show at Neumo's.

Preston School:

05-17 Seattle, WA - Neumo's *
06-27 Calgary, Alberta - Legion Hall (Sled Island Music Festival)

* with the Posies