Even the name of the new group he's formed with members of the Moore Brothers (a duo who finds their home on his Amazing Grease label), the Preston School of Industry, is a waning reference to an ...

Preston Castle in Ione was a reform school for delinquent youths called the Preston School of Industry from 1894 until 1960. The castle closed in 1960, but new facilities for the school on the ...

There’s plenty of other clues too. Because, despite Preston School Of Industry being named after a Bay Area reform school, Kannberg is not in penitent mood. Thus the warm anthemic scamper of ...

The Preston School of Industry opened in 1894 with seven teenagers transferred from San Quentin Prison; their crimes included grand larceny, burglary and robbery. At the military-style school ...

INDIE-ROCK With its second release, Preston School of Industry continues to find comfort in being a straightforward indie-rock band. Unlike the wide vistas he traversed as a member of Pavement ...

Malkmus's self-titled debut was charismatic but predictably plodding. Fronting Preston School of Industry, Kannberg surpassed him, crafting in All This Sounds Gas, their debut album, a rough-hewn ...

It's still nerdy and rocking, but with a touch more sophistication, which gives his solo debut as the Preston School of Industry, All This Sounds Gas, a joyous, upbeat groove that makes you happy ...

Stephen Malkmus may be the most high-profile former member of the American indie institution Pavement, but with Monsoon his old colleague Scott Kannberg, aka Preston School Of Industry ...

But a far great wonder was to come during the summer months however, when the band's former guitarist, Scott Kannberg, re-appeared with his new outfit, Preston School of Industry and a new album ...

Preston School Of Industry is the new, um, project, from Scott ‘Spiral Stairs’ Kannberg, ex-of Pavement. One feels that he hasn’t achieved what they’re all calling ‘closure’, since ...

For his second album as Preston School Of Industry, Kannberg sounds exactly as you'd expect: the guitarist out of Pavement grown a little older and more rueful. These are amiable, humane songs ...

Without Pavement's alchemy, Preston School of Industry lacks those inimitable aspects of amateurism, nuance and play. Where Pavement rooftop-gambled in musical crapshoots, Kannberg's solo routine ...