You have three more chances–including tonight.

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Your SAK Correspondent presents a rare look into Delaware’s state religion.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have posted five new recordings on their MySpace page–including a jam called “Young Adult Fiction” (lyrical snippet overheard by your SAK correspondent: “Don’t check me out”) and a new recording of title song “The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart”– all of which sound significantly different from buzzier recordings past.

Wisdom has it that these tracks are from a forthcoming full length LP. You’ll be able to enjoy said songs in a live setting when TPOBPAH rock Brooklyn’s Dead Herring this Friday:

Again tonight.

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Sound Fix’s free in-store “Surpise Guest” for this coming Tuesday (July 22nd) has been revealed to your SAK Correspondent be Philadelphia’s own Dr. Dog. The good doctor having fatefully having booked shows at the Music Hall (tickets available) and Bowery Ballroom (sold out), you’ll have an opportunity to hear their new jams at no cost (well, you’ll have to show up early and then wait around).

Also be aware: their new record, FATE, is posted in full for your streaming MySpace enjoyment.

It’s a Dodo, kids! And the five of them lined up in a cute little row over on the Cakeshop calendar page tell your SAK correspondent that said Dodos, in town from the Bay Area for their Siren Fest gig at Coney Island this Saturday, are having a hush hush set in the LES tonight.

Your SAK correspondent finally (kinda, sorta) has something nice to say about LA.

Your SAK correspondent took several photos of Alabama melody/punk trio P.S. Eliot at Brooklyn’s unfortunately-named Rock Star Bar on Sunday, but it was around number five that he realized a single digital capture would suffice. The three young ladies have an eyes-directed-at-the-floor sincerity that squares well with their catchy, youthful simplicity–though it results in an amateur photog grabbing the same shot over and over again.

No matter. The songs are finger snapping good, and the gals have a quite generous by donation pricing scheme for merch–all the more reason to give them some money if you catch ‘em in the next week (they’ll be making their way from Pennsylvania to Florida) and empty your wallet so they can buy fuel for the next leg of their trip home. Tour dates at MySpace.

The Magnetic Fields have announced a US Tour that will hit Jersey City on Thursday, October 23. Tickets go on pre-sale at 9 a.m. this morning. Your SAK correspondent wants you to note that said concert date falls right in the middle of this year’s CMJ Music Marathon, so don’t buy tickets now if you think you may want to Rock Indier that day should the opportunity arise (and your SAK correspondent is pretty sure it will).

There is, however, a large gap in the touring schedule before that local date, so it would be reasonable to expect more area dates to be added:

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That’s what Dan Deacon has promised (via a MySpace Bulletin yesterday) when, on Sunday, July 20th, the final night of Baltimore collective Wham City’s very own Whartscape fest, he collabs live with Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) and Naeem Juwan (aka MC Spank Rock).

It’s unclear which show that day will bring the three men simultaneously onto the same stage (both an afternoon and a separate evening show cap the 4-day blowout) or what the name of this Supergroup is (can your SAK Correspondent suggest The Charm City Rollers?) but the fact that this remains largely unposted across the indie rock blogosphere until now is slightly baffling, as anything 12 hours old seems ancient when you’re typing it into Wordpress.

Update: The name of this super group? That’s surely what you’re asking your SAK Correspondent: Well, Who Is The Tunafish Man? Of course.

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