DOA notes that Damien Jurado’s next record, On My Way To Absence, will be out early ‘05. A live-to-tape 5-song EP, called Just In Time For Something should be out in November, though. An effing incredible tour is lined-up for Oct/Nov, featuring Buckner, Jurado, and Dolorean. Looks like I’m a be schlepping my ass to Pittsburgh for that one.

Pitchfork gave The Arcade Fire’s Funeral a 9.7.

Nine. Point. Seven.

Insound has an mp3 now, but Merge still hasn’t posted the tracks on their site, those slack motherfuckers. (Get it, “Slack Motherfuckers”? Bwah-ha-ha!
Haha! Ha. Ha? Er… Ahem.)