Drag City

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

Silver Jews: Tanglewood Numbers LP

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

2005's Superwolf is an acclaimed collaborative album from songcrafters Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy aka Will Oldham. Bonnie challenged Matt to write music to a series of song lyrics, and this collaboration was done over some months, and included l

The Silver Jews' music has a sense of human care that is at odds with the 'easy art' overload that constantly bombards us. A mixture of great truths and false trails, their records make you smile and want to get drunk and play them all back to back; chron

Received an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork. Bajas Fresh is on the beach here in 2017, existing and thriving in the same wrecked world as you and me. How they finding it so chill and pretty? It’s been over three years since the last proper BITCHIN BAJASs—a natu

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

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

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"

Named # 1 Album of the Year by MOJO. Pitchfork Best New Music. 8.5!! The fourth studio album from BILL CALLAHAN. In the song-world of Bill Callahan, the present realities tumble ecstatically like cloth in the wind—sheets and flags and clothes. These thin

Essentially an ensemble recorded live in the studio, Bill Callahan’s Apocalypse is the corpus delecti. If tape is like meat, this record is the whole hog, no cuts, delectables and guts intact! In the opening salvo “Drover,” the cattle are herded. Callahan

Smog's 2000 album Dongs of Sevotion is loose 11-song collection featuring similar lyrical content to that of Bill Callahan's previous work. Half of the album finds Callahan alone on vocals and guitar/piano with his only support coming from Tortoise's John

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-

Located at the mid point between Lee Marvin and Harvey Oswald, Bill Callahan aka Smog has established a reputation as a classic American male outsider. With 12 studio albums under his Smog belt Callahan remains an enigma. A consummate storyteller in the t