Great news for fans of Merrimack Valley post-hardcore. PIEBALD's first three albums - that'd be 1997's When Life Hands You Lemons, 1999's If It Weren't for Venetian Blinds, It'd Be Curtains for Us All (the best one), and 2002's We Are the Only Friends that We Have - are getting reissued courtesy of Rise Records, home of .

Elliott Smith's yearbook photo. Source.

I'm hoping this doesn't turn into one of those situations where material ELLIOTT SMITH recorded before his untimely death in 2003 keeps surfacing every couple of years until we're scraping the absolute bottom. But it's okay: Kill Rock Stars is not releasing "Cecilia/Amanda" to coincide with the announcement of a "new" Elliott Smith album.