By the time you read this, Little Heart’s Ease should be available down tha store,
though it bears noting, I guess, that Rough Trade has posted one of those ecard things with Real snippets of tracks 2 and 3, “Jerusalem” and “She Will Come”. Actually, you know what? RealAudio snippets are so fucking worthless. You know those guys that stand around at the supermarket and hand out samples of kielbasa on toothpicks? It’s not even like that. Offering an mp3 to download is like that. RealAudio samples are like holding the kielbasa-toothpick out and saying “here, you can sniff this for 2 seconds”.

Up until this point, every time I’ve read “Helio Sequence”, in my mind, I’ve been thinking “Helios Creed”. My bad.
Their new record, Love and Distance, is out tomorrow on Subpop, and if I were to judge its merit based solely on the mp3 they’ve posted, I’d say it’s pretty damn good.

Robbers On High Street will be the musical guests on Carson Durstly June 10th. Better though, is this link to their KEXP performance back in March, which includes Debonair, Opal Ann, and the newish (at least I think) “Major Minor”.

Destroyer interview over at Junkmedia.

John Guilt rarities continue to surface…you can now check out their cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Song For The Asking”, which originally appeared on the Exotic Fever comp Don’t Know When I’ll Be Back Again.

Nary a peep out of Omaha for a while, but there’s some peepin’ now. Apparently, Now It’s Overhead have covered the Magnetic Fields’ “Book Of Love” as a b-side to the Wait In A Line single (out later this summer).

And, 3 years after the fact, and The Faint have finally put together a new album to follow up Danse Macabre. I’m anxious to see how well they’ll be able to compete in the 2004 market, where almost *every* band is referencing the Big 80s. S’called Wet From Birth, and’ll be out September 14th.

Finally, Columbus, please note that the Bigger Lovers show this Friday has been moved (thank GOD) from Bernie’s to Oldfield’s. You’d have to be a real jackass to miss this one. (thx Chip for the heads-up).