Okkervil River’s new EP, Sleep and Wake-Up Songs, will be out Nov. 2nd. It’s a combo of outtakes from the River Of Golden Dreams sessions, stuff from their Acuarela split with Julie Doiron, plus all-new stuff.

Recording of the new EP was helped along by JG of The Minus Story, who recently completed their new Heaven and Hell EP, out early ‘05.

Anybody else have an EP coming out, you may ax? Well, Oneida’s got one out on Ace Fu at the end of November; it’s Nice./Splittin’ Peaches.

And, not one to be left behind, Mr. Damien Jurado will see his new EP, Just In Time For Something, released Nov. 2nd. He recorded the EP live, using an old reel-to-reel, and some thrift-store tape he ran across. Seems like it should sound awesome. His new full length, On My Way To Absence, will be out sometime in ‘05.

And hey, Ending East (look to the upper-right corner of their page) has been kind enough to share with us a track from that new Prosaics EP. It’s the best track on the disc, btw, “Failure”.