So here’s the deal: it’s still indie rock, and sometimes, when you’re doing super-limited, tiny runs of things, pressing plants aren’t always as cooperative as you’d like them to be. So yeah, the actual, physical 7″ single we’ve been promising? It doesn’t quite exist yet. The covers look great though! And we have been assured that the records themselves will indeed be pressed, along with the the LP, in time for the latter’s promised due date of September 7.

In the meantime: order from Fayettenam and Scott will see to it that you get the downloads now to tide you over.

In more exciting news:

Five thousand plus views in a week! We are blowing up in the Hooniverse, on the Autoblog, en français, in Polish (!), on Saabs United, and, most importantly, in Argentina! We can only hope for such love from actual, uh, music critics.

The Mountain Goats return to Australia and New Zealand in April, and to celebrate I’ve posted some pics from our last trip to the southern hemisphere. The one where we had to get up at six o’clock every morning. Oh man that sucked. See you soon!

Massive new photodiary from last year’s Mountain Goats tour with Kaki King now up here, kinda peters out toward the end but for the first two thirds I was feeling it. Does everybody know that we’re on tour again as of tomorrow? Dates over at mountain-goats.com, come on out and say hello. I know I always say that but I mean it!

Your eyes do not deceive you. Long-neglected, hopelessly obsolete, Web 0.0 fivetools.com has been dragged kicking and screaming into the future. Or at the very least, into the present. That counts for something, right?

All of your old favorite content resides to the right, with all its original urlage, links preserved. (Most of them, anyway. I’m using bandcamp now to host the PPH stuff and will migrate the DiskothiQ stuff over there too eventually. Just seems easier, and better.) But now you can also subscribe (!) to a feed (!!!) and stay abreast of regularly added new content (exclamation points to infinity). So please do. Subscribe, I mean. Figuring out how to make WordPress do what I wanted it to was a pain in the ass.