new postal service..jk

Ben Gibbard is working on his only side project since the unanimously indie-praised The Postal Service.  This time, he’s duo-ing with Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar.  Their collaboration started as song writing for a new Jack Kerouac doc called One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur but the chemistry must’ve been there because a collection of songs resulted.  The full length album will have the same name as the movie as well as the same release date of October 20.  Trailer and a music video for the song ‘San Francisco’ at the official site.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road:

“They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.”

more for tracklist:

the voice, revived’ish

Google’s news archive have recently announced they would add a fuckload of periodicals and what’s boner city about that is the addition of the entire back catalogue of The Village Voice.  In its prime, The Voice was the most relevant cultural source of journalism.  Founded in the 50′s, it gained readers with the Beat generation and allowed new talent to freely write.  I guess it’s comparable to the blogosphere of the present; amateurism can sometimes breed rare innovation?  Anyways, here’s two heyday articles from The Voice and a recent blog I found about dumb rap lyrics.

Review about Kerouac’s On the Road
Article about Maurice Sendak, pre-Where the Wild Things Are
Dumb rap lyrics blog