JUNE 11, 2008 Well we have an official record release because Iowa City's own Jim Musser has signed in on The Ghost of Rock & Roll. Click there to read the full thing, but we've got our poster-byte, Mussa's declarative that "this is one seriously powerful rock 'n' roll record." Yay!

Also, we've got our first terrestrial retail for the new record, on sale now at the Record Collector on Linn in Downtown Iowa City and at Bill's Records on Lamar in Dallas. We know the digital thing is the thing with the music thing these days, but, hey, patronize real record stores while they still exist.

EXTRA! EXTRA! OUR NEW RECORD, The Ghost of Rock & Roll now available via the friendly kids at CDBABY.com

In the meantime, your humble Weekly Smear editor is trying to figure out how to make the Weekly Smear weeklier and smearier and more salient to you, our readers, who have come to depend on us for, well, nothing. Which is the problem.

More pics would probably be a boon, right?

And maybe YouTube videos or something. Hey, our buddy and patron Dr. Brandon Parkhurst made a vid out of "Kill the Poor." Let's see if we can code a post of that properly right here:

Hey, cool! I'm not so stupid. Who said I was?

Okay, I feel like we took a positive step here today. Let's all meet back here tomorrow and everybody bring two new ideas. Maybe get drunk tonight. That usually helps me with ideas.

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