Jubilee has their first video out, for their first single, “Rebel Hiss.”

Better yet, they say their second single, “In With the Out Crowd,” will be available in a week or two. It’ll include three B-sides that won’t be on the full-length album. Mo’ info.

Pitchfork put up rehearsal footage of NIN doing “1,000,000″ with Robin Finck and Justin Meldal-Johnsen. It’s some pretty cool shit.

RIP George. :(

We’re at the cabin we’re renting in New Hampshire. It’s sweet. Rustic and cozy, yet plenty of space & equipped with wifi. It rained all day and the power went out in the late afternoon, but when we came back from dinner it was back on. We’re all working our way through the The Walking Dead series lately—and all trying to read the same copy of volume five at once. Tomorrow: Reesa! (And Rhode Island for the boys.) And hopefully not quite so much rain.

Annnnnnnnd I didn’t get to bring my bike. It got fixed in time, but then Hertz rented us a Rav 4, which didn’t work with my bike rack. I tried to fit it in after we got our luggage in, but no go.

Then, an hour or so up the road, it hit me: my bike has quick-release wheels. I totally could have fit it in the Rav.

In New Jersey we broke down and ended up with a Sebring instead. And not the convertible kind. My bike wouldn’t have fit without the rack, and we wouldn’t have had the rack even if I had brought the bike in the Rav…so in the end it was good I forgot about the quick-release wheels.

I miss biking. Running around Manchester is going to be way less convenient on foot and bus Friday. What can you do, right?

An overly wordy MySpace blog post from last night gave an update on what Jubilee’s been doing the past few months. CliffsNotes: recording an album, B-sides, stuff for an EP and even more songs that might end up on album #2. Whew. I thought they were sitting around with their thumbs up their buttholes.

They also have a manager now and two booking agents, one in the US and one in the UK, which means tour dates down the pike (Asheville—do you hear me people? Play Asheville). Plus: Jeff Lynn, from Wires on Fire, is now a regular member of the band, and both he and Mikey Shoes have solo albums coming out.

The video for “Rebel Hiss” will be out soon, too, along with another single—”In With the Out Crowd”—and a video for that as well.

And you can get alla that stuff–albums, B-sides, vinyl EP, solo albums and more for $19.95 by clicking the “Join now” button on their website (where you can also stream the four songs from their first single, Rebel Hiss, of which “L.A.” is my favorite).

Other news: we got two tickets to the BRMC/STP show in Charlotte for Neil and two for the show in Alphraretta for Jake, so we won’t just be in the pit for these shows, we’ll be in the pit with some of our favorite people! (And that’s after we get to hang with Reesa at Virgin Mobile Fest—August is shaping up to be a great month.)

But today…I have to finish TOO DEAD (and go to the post office and Greenlife and work out and make hamburgers). So I guess I should get to it!