This is complicated, and largely made up, so pay attention. Joe Pernice is a recording artist, who, once upon a time, had a multi-dollar deal with Sub Pop as a member of the bands SCUD MOUNTAIN BOYS and THE PERNICE BROTHERS.

This was before you were born. After a mutual parting of the ways between label and artist, he started his own record label and continued to record under various noms de plume.

He also became a novelist, and his first novel, "It Feels So Good When I Stop" will be published by Riverhead Books in August 2009.

In said book, the narrator, who is not Joe, is in a band called THE YOUNG ACCUSER for a short time.

After the fictional narrator leaves this fictional band, they record a fictional song called "Black Smoke (No Pope)" and send it to the non-fictional Sub Pop.

This is the non-fiction version of that fictional single. Of interest may be the fact that a cover of an even earlier, more fictional "Black Smoke (No Pope)" was recorded by the non-fictional Joe Pernice and appears on the non-fictional companion CD to his novel.

That CD is called "It Feels So Good When I Stop (Soundtrack)" and it will be released on his Ashmont Records, also in August 2009.