Girls’ Christopher Owens and Chet White revealed the tracklist, release date, and album art for their third record this morning: Father, Son, Holy Ghost, the follow-up to last year’s Broken Dreams Club EP and their debut LP, Album, arrives on September 13. Drummer Darren Weiss and guitarist John Anderson guest on the 11-track effort, which was recorded in a San Francisco office building using “more a collection of gear than a studio,” a press release notes of the “tube and transistor-based” equipment that helped craft the sound of “a much more confident band.” Check out the tracklist and cover art — alongside an earlier live preview of new tune “Saying I Love You” — below.

Back in March, Girls frontman Christopher Owens boasted about whittling down 70 new songs for a 6-track EP, which he dubbed at the time “the best EP of all time.” While the set didn’t reach shelves (or our ears) in the spring as planned, True Panther announced today that the EP in question will indeed arrive before the year is up: On November 22, Owens and friends will release Broken Dreams Club, a 30-minute set that includes the brand new tune “Heartbreaker,” available here or below as a free download. You can pre-order Broken Dreams Club here and decipher its meaning (“a taste of things to come”) from Owens’ handwritten note thataway.

“I have never and will never lie to you,” Girls’ Christopher Owens promised fans in April, reacting to a suggestion that his best-known biographical fact about being raised in the Children of God cult was a disingenuous publicity stunt. “I’m the real deal.” And if subsequent reporting on his past didn’t close the book on that kind of talk, watching him reminiscence on the subject in this interview offers even more evidence that his music, story, and artistic persona are all indeed sincere. MBV points to a 2-part chat with director Travis Matthews, in which Owens candidly discusses his past, sexuality, influences, and, most importantly (to me), the forthcoming Girls record in his bedroom.

What’s more, Owens unveils a brand new song, “Oh My Love,” which he says was influenced by Dwight Yoakam and Taylor Swift, while sitting adjacent to an ironic(?) poster signed by Miley Cyrus. This whole scene is undeniably full of win. Check out the excellent new tune below, and set some time aside for the full interview here and here. By the way, as Pedestrian also notes, the follow-up to Girls’ debut is being mastered as we speak for a potential fall release.

Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner of Mates of State are only in the beginning stages of prepping for their sixth LP, but fans of the husband-and-wife duo will have at least 10 carefully-chosen cover tunes to enjoy during the wait. Mates of State announced today that The Covers Mixtape, a 10-track album featuring ambitious versions of songs by the likes of Nick Cave, the Mars Volta, Daniel Johnston, Vashti Bunyan, Girls, Tom Waits, Death Cab For Cutie, and more, will hit shelves this summer.

In fact, it was this covers project that “jumpstart[ed] the creation of the next Mates of State record,” the band said in a press release (via CoS). “When we were finished, we couldn’t wait to write our own songs again…”

Check out the full tracklist, and stream/download their cover of Girls’ “Laura” below:

Girls frontman Christopher Owens’ songs and videos make me feel nostalgic for people I’ve never met and events I’ve neglected to embrace in a way that’s akin only to the work of filmmakers like Richard Linklater, Noah Baumbach, or Tom Tykwer. While we patiently await their forthcoming “best EP of all time,” Owens and company have uploaded two videos to helps us feel that unique emotion in the meantime: a new tour diary video from their spring European tour and a cover of Radiohead’s “No Surprises” performed live in Gothenburg, Sweden (via Fader/My Poproks).

After revisiting Girls’ “Lust For Life” video tonight, it was striking how well it captured both everything and nothing of my experience as an East Coast transplant in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past few years. Its past-life nostalgia and “streetcar visions” all make for a wild ride, sure, but thank god the meter isn’t up anytime soon…

Frontman Christopher Owens chatted with Drowned In Sound (via Crumbler) this week and — though a new LP won’t be hitting shelves till next year at earliest — a new EP is on the way. Not just any ol’ EP, though:

“I want to call the a-side ‘Fucking A and the b-side ‘Fucking B’,” said Owens, “and I want it to be the best EP of all time!” He’s written seventy new songs, you see, and has “picked out six” for the new record, including one of the first songs he wrote.

“It’s called ‘Carolina’ - there’s a version of it on the internet - and it hasn’t really been done justice yet,” Owens added, describing later, “It’s written about this girl who was ‘Miss Teen South Carolina’…, and they asked her a question and she said something really silly about wanting to teach people in Iraq how to read, and I thought to myself “Did she really just say that?”