Modest Mouse have announced that they will release an eight-song EP later this summer.

Today's roundup of quick music news stories

The band's putting out a new 7" on 7/21, "Perpetual Motion Machine" b/w "History Sticks To Your Feet." The latter's a relatively bright, bendy guitar rocker that teases (but then backs off of) being an epic. Hear it at Pitchfork.

So far it seem like folks' favorite No One's First And You're Next-related track was the slippery 6-minute "Whale Song." Well satisfied fans, the mid-tempo Big Easy horn howler "Perpetual Motion Machine" takes Brock and Co. into a pretty different direction. You can hear it over at SPIN. As far as context, the eight-song No One's First And You'r...