The Donkeys, who released one of my favorite records of 2006*, have signed with Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar’s red-headed stepchild, Dead Oceans. We can expect the Donkey’s new slab of laid-back West Coast pop, Living On The Other Side, on September 9th.

(*Let me put it this way: how many “Favorite Albums Of The Year” do most sites pick? Fifty? A Hundred? I chose *FOUR* in 2006.)