News about the new Mountain Goats album:

this album will be the first Mountain Goats record since 1996 to feature members of the Bright Mountain Choir: Rachel and Sarah came up from L.A. to San Francisco and put down backing vocals on three songs, all of which ("New Zion," "How to Embrace a Swamp Creature," and "Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident") have made the final sequence.

Yesterday we bought tickets for the October Bowery show. It's a Monday night, but should prove worthwhile...