A track from Iron and Wine’s Our Endless Numbered Days:

(I’m sure they’ll get the link working eventually)

Mp3 from A.C. (Carl) Newman’s The Slow Wonder.

Peefork’s headline reads “The Natural History To Tour”, but they got they tense wrong, it should
read “The Natural History Touring Right Now“, cause I saw ‘em last night. They seem to be playing mostly new material from their
new one, coming out on Startime in September. Resta the tourdates are here.

NPR convo with Vanderslice. via lhb.

And TMT is reporting on the tour and release of the new Clinic record, Winchester Cathedral, which should
be around April, I think, though if memory serves, I think it’s been in the can for almost a year already.

Thufjan Thtevens Theven Thwans (thells theathells by the theathore) is
finally officially out next week, though a limited 7″ of “The Dress Looks Nice On You” b/w “Borderline” has been released
this week by Rough Trade UK.

In June, Matador is releasing a solo album by
New Pornographer Carl Newman, titled The Slow Wonder.

They’re also doing a Cat Power DVD later
in the summer. It would just be way too easy to make a joke here about a 2-hour DVD of someone crying
or running off the stage repeatedly.

From a groggy sleepy state, I half-remembered a minivan commercial
soundtracked by an old Frisbie song, which I found odd. Thing
is, I just saw the commercial again, and it wasn’t Frisbie, it was Pas/Cal’s “Come On Let’s Go“, and for some reason, that don’t seem so odd.

The Magnetic Fields will be touring, starting
in April, in support of their upcoming record, i. Not a whole lot of dates yet, but
keep your ear to the ground.

4/22/04 New York, NY NYU Kimmel Center
5/22/04 Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center
6/25/04 Chigago, IL Old Town School Of Folk Music
6/26/04 Chigago, IL Old Town School Of Folk Music
6/27/04 Chigago, IL Old Town School Of Folk Music

Gramophone’s posted the new Beta Band
single, Assessment.

I hope Nick’s getting into a sort-of-regular
schedule of writing about music now, as it’s a real delight when he does it. The
Mountain Goats piece he
just posted is right on (of course, I really like WSABH, too).
Anyway, I know you’ll find it hard to believe, but listen to Grandpa for once: There really was a time when
Pitchfork posted reviews that didn’t make you want to put your boot through the monitor.

Not sure why I didn’t notice this one before:

Check out the video for TVOTR’s “Staring At The Sun”. Courtesy of Touch & Go.

Some very nice indie pop from Seattle’s Fey Ray
here. 2 from their latest, I Wanna Be New and Perfect:

Over at the Southern site, you can
check out a track from Beauty Pill’s new one,
The Unsustainable Lifestyle.

There are some smooth, poppy tracks from Gingersol’s new record, Eastern, over
at their site.

The title track from Burd Early’s Mind and Mother is
available at Western Vinyl.

Stream Sondre Lerche’s new one, 2-Way Monologue, over
at his VH1 page. via stereogum scott lapatine.

And finally, the artwork for the new Beta Band disc…yikes.

stereogum has The Decemberists covering “Human Behaviour”. Get it while you can.

Zounds Familia’s got a new track posted from Sufjan’s Seven Swans (which is out tomorrow the 16th, durr).

There’s a bunch of other tracks there, including stuff from Half-Handed Cloud and Soul Junk.

And Snaggle Creep has finally posted some songs from Now It’s Overhead’s new one Fall Back Open (which is out next week).