Apologies for the recent downtime. We had a little brouhaha with the accounting dept. which has now been sorted.

Thanks for many emails of concern. Updates will resume later on in the week.

Carrie recently had a chat with who other than Pitchfork discussing The Spells, her writing, acting and all other endeavors.
When the inevitable question about the possibility of a SK reunion popped up…

“Yeah, I don’t think we’re ruling it out. But it’s not going to be any time soon. We probably wouldn’t use the word “reunion” [laughs]. We would say that the hiatus is off. It’s just semantics, but yeah [laughs]. “Reunion” is a scary word. There’s some horrible connotations in the word “reunion” [laughs]. It involves a lot of, like, face makeup, and everyone commenting about how much older we look. It’s precarious: the longer you wait, I think it gets worse.”

I’ll take it.

The full interview can be read at Pitchfork.

Today Pitchfork have dropped word that Carrie is set to star alongside The Shins’ James Mercer in Matt McCormick’s debut feature film Some Days Are Better Than Others.

“Overall, I’d say that the film is about lonely people trying to create their own abstract forms of communication. You could call it a charmingly melancholy look at abandonment,” McCormick says of the feature. The film is currently in post-production and is scheduled for a fall 2009 release.

Matt previously worked with Carrie in the 2008 short film Light Tiger Eye also featuring Mercer, and of course directed the video for SK’s Jumpers.

Another Corin & Eddie Vedder collaboration! This time the pair feature on the John Doe, The Golden State EP on the track of the same name, The Golden State.
The EP is available for purchase exclusively from Easy Street Records.

The long awaited Jicks music video for Gardenia finally hit the internets this week. The video doesn’t feature Janet or any actual Jick, but is a where’s Waldo of Portland’s freshest of the fresh.

If the embedded video above is giving you ills, view it straight at the source, Pitchfork.tv.

Corin joined Blue Giant once more as they kicked off their Portland mini-tour last night (Oct 7) at the Holocene where she reportedly debuted songs from her as of yet unconfirmed and long rumored solo (!!!) record.

Megan Holmes has photos from last night’s show up at her photo blog.

A few months ago Corin spoke to Noelle Crombie of Mom Beat, The Oregonian about children’s music and alternatives to its sucktitude:

Tucker, who lives in Portland and is mom to a 7-year-old son and a 3-month-old girl (May ‘08), is blunt in her assessment of kids’ music:

“To be honest, I can’t stand almost all children’s music.”

Still, Tucker came up with some great recommendations. Like Carol King’s “Really Rosie.” And Smithsonian Folkways recordings for children. She’s also a fan of Pete Seegar’s “Birds Beasts Bugs & Fishes.”

Her son, Marshall, loves this guy, especially “King of the Road.”

“My son loves that. He knows all the words.”

She said she and her husband try to play music they like and hope Marshall and his baby sister, Glory!, like it, too. “I mean (Marshall) loves Green Day. He loves The Replacements.”

“We play what we like. My parents were the same way. My dad played Woodie Guthrie for us and Queen and his record collection. That is what I was raised on.”