One more reason to like the Pernice Brothers, particularly brother Joe Pernice: this email.

It’s Tuesday, May 20, 2003, which can only mean one thing: Ashmont Records releases the Pernice Brothers’ Yours, Mine and Ours today. Perhaps the greatest positive effect of the release is as follows: Nine months from today, a bumper crop of love-children, a baby-booming new wave will spring forth to save the Social Security system. They will have first names like Monahan and Pinkerton and Stein. They will be as gentle and firm as Superman’s father. They will always look good, and do even better. You might not live to see them come completely into their own, but what you do see will be enough. That nagging something or other that dogs your every step will seem laughable post-YMO. All of your policies will be mature and your soufflés timed perfectly. You will have a new appreciation for just about everything. And should you encounter the odd speed bump in the road (which may or may not happen), you’ll learn from it. You’ll learn like no one has ever learned before. But you’ll remain humble, never forgetting what things used to be like.

(Monahan and Pinkerton and Stein are the names of Joe’s bandmates.)

Bonus knowledge: Joe Pernice, writer of depressingly beautiful songs, has also been a proofreader at Cosmo Girl.

CanRock historians will note that Joyce Linehan, Joe’s manager and partner in Ashmont, was Sub Pop’s woman-on-the-scene in Halifax in the early/mid-1990s, where she signed bands like crabwalk-fave Sloan to the label. (Laura Stein, the Pernices’ keyboardist, is an ex-member of Halifax’s Jale.) Joyce also signed Joe’s old band, the Scud Mountain Boys.

And just for fun: the video for “Working Girls,” off their last album. Not many videos end with band members playing a game of stickball with Death.

20 May 2003

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