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Drag City Callahan, Bill & Bonnie Prince Billy: Blind Date Party LP

Far View is a compilation of tracks from Joel Vandroogenbroeck's (Brainticket) series of library music releases for the Coloursound label – a uniquely trippy catalog of music vignettes long overdue for their day in the library music sun, remastered from t

A new instrumental album of acoustic guitar playing from Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny! Everybody knows it’s been far too long since 2004’s much-beloved For Octavio Paz; even as the landscape has crowded with acoustic players, we’ve all been dying

Drag City Silver Jews: Tanglewood Numbers LP

The first studio full-length from David Berman’s Silver Jews’ project, 1994’s Starlite Walker found the Virginia native’s poetry paired with languid, lived-in instrumentation provided largely by his friends in Pavement: Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, a

As any Six Organs of Admittance fan will tell you, life isn't all smiles and sunshine for Mr. Six Organs, one Ben Chasny. His discography has dodged in and out of the shadows with each successive record but 2005's School Of The Flower was an extended brea

Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy return with the follow-up to their Superwolf album from years back. The songs, then, go boldly into undreamed-of places, and go deep, as Matt and Bonny take all the musics they know to make songs that penetrate. In c

Mind Maintenance is the duo of Joshua Abrams playing guimbri and Chad Taylor on mbira. This is where the music begins, but Mind Maintenance can’t be described with a summing of parts and players. It’s not about world music, it’s not about jazz. It’s about

Out on the street, indie rock was an exciting way of life for boys and girls alike in the gay 90s. Here's a couple of voices from the fertile Denver scene, Lisa and Hilarie of Secret Square, picking a favorite from the Drag City young galaxy of stars. In

2020! Now it can be told: the charade of a world without new MAGIK MARKERS records (six-plus years!) has finally ended. In these times of contagion fables and hacky blockbuster N95 disaster imagery IRL, Markers emerge again like three Lazarus from their t

The Segall has landed. And it’s fully loaded, with everything that TY SEGALL are gonna need in the world to come. Sticking his hand deeper into the machines all around him, Ty is reaching ever further to the outer limits of inner space orbited throughout

Life is a Rorschach, life is a Rashomon. Fuck your facts. Throw ‘em out with yesterday’s webpages. Lives lie beyond the equations of currency, border lines and government—and truth is just a drop in the beholder’s eye. TY SEGALL has made whole records tha

The second collection of singles from the one-and-only TY SEGALL. Features non-album singles and B-sides from the Goodbye Bread, Twins and Sleeper era (2011-2013), including covers of GG Allin, Velvet Underground and The Groundhogs. Includes the songs: “S

We all want life to be beautiful. And it usually is, whatever direction we choose to look. But never before has there been a Smog LP quite this beautiful. Lush instrumentation threads through the material, and the ability to fictionalize places our hero i

"all the bar tabs were destroyed in the fire. Once again I was a free man"

Originally issued on Drag City in 2009, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle is the second album from Bill Callahan, who previously rocked the world under his pseudonym Smog. The handsome 9-track set grows organically over a diverse bunch of sounds by top-no

As you listen to Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest, a feeling of totality, of completeness, steals over you, like a thief in broad daylight. Of course it does – you're listening to a new Bill Callahan record! The first one in almost six years! What more do you

Originally issued on Drag City in 2007, Woke On A Whaleheart is the first solo album from Bill Callahan, who previously rocked the world under his pseudonym Smog. With the same maverick spirit of Harry Nilsson or Cat Stevens, Callahan delivers nine heart-

"Our salivating makes it all taste worse," croons Ty Segall in "Taste," the lead single from his latest album, First Taste. He's talking about us: how we're the masters of our own destiny, tellers of our own prophecy, makers of our own sickened choices. I