Music-dork convention dictates that when a band has two singer/songwriters in its ranks, they can be identified as “the poppy one” and “the artsy one.” Lazy? Sure! Still it’s hard to think of pairs like Lennon/McCartney, Tucker/Brownstein or Holsapple/Stamey and not notice a pattern. While Stephen Malkmus was the de facto leader of Pavement, Scott … Continue reading Essential New Music: Spiral Stairs’ “Doris And The Daggers”