The Silver Jews yentas over at Pitchfork always seem to have the Berman-related scoop, and today they’re reporting the title of the band’s forthcoming LP will be Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea. The album hits some time in April 2008, but so far there’s no confirmed information, speculative rumors, innuendos, hints or allegations about either a tracklist or a subsequent tour. So far.

So naturally I spent the last 15 minutes fucking around on The YouTube watching as many Silver Jews clips as possible, but as it turns out, there’s a serious dearth of quality shit. The best I could do is this video of Black and Brown Blues and Smith & Jones Forever from the Grey Eagle at Ashevegas, North Carolina. Random Rules may contain the best opening line in music — “In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection” — but Smith & Jones Forever is clearly the best SJ song.

Agreed? In any event, now we can all anticipate a new batch of genius…

Slade Sohmer

In 2006 Slade Sohmer founded Hidden Track along with current EiC Scott Bernstein. Slade ran the site until 2008, establishing a scope of coverage and level of professionalism that still exists today. In 2010 Sohmer founded HyperVocal with Lee Brenner and the "purveyors of the vital and viral" have gone on to create a network of highly acclaimed sites that includes Headlines That Suck, Weeping Elvis, Distriction and Spike The Water Cooler.

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