JV’s back from tour and preparing to lay down tracks
for an upcoming JV/Mountain Goats split (plus also
featuring Franklin Bruno. Maybe that makes JV the
extra Extra Glenn). Vanderslice’ll be covering
“Baboon” from Coroner’s Gambit. Also,
there’s some permutation of Pale Horse’s
cover art up as JV’s splash page. It was designed
by Aesthetic Apparatus, who I was surprised to see
featured in Readymade this month (don’t even think
of breaking my balls about this. My girlfriend has
a subscription).

And I’m still waiting to see those JV/Beulah
tourdates for September, though realistically, I know not to hold my breath for a Columbus show.

Another band I knew I could count on to not show up in C-Town is The Walkmen.
They’ve got some East Coast-y dates in August, a coupla which
are with the French Kicks. I didn’t realize that was the
French Kicks playing with Casey in the video for “The 15th”, I just assumed it was a bunch of actor-types *pretending* to be
the French Kicks. Seriously.