Drag City

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

Ty Segall's new Possession sees him step away from the heady prog of Three Bells and into lush, melodic rock'n'roll. The sound here is fleshed out with pianos, horns, and strings, and each song (with lyrics co-written by filmmaker Matt Yoka) tells a diffe

The anticipated new album from BONNIE PRINCE BILLY (aka WILL OLDHAM of PALACE), his first since 2003’s Master And Everyone. Twelve beautiful songs enriched with strings and arrangements by RYDER McNAIR and NICO MUHLY, and the backing of “FILTHY” JIM WHITE

This one to me is a time capsule more than most any of my recordings. All music is a time trapped in time that preaches timelessness—preaching either convincingly or not. But with a radio session such as this, there is a different aspect. It’s all live, a

Active since the 1970s, Jill Fraser is a composer and electronic music pioneer with a staggering list of credits across music, film, television and performance. Yet her new album, Earthly Pleasures sits uniquely against her groundbreaking body of work. He

This classic recording from the LP era is back on vinyl. In 1970, MAYO THOMPSON (once-and-future leader of THE RED KRAYOLA) recorded Corky’s Debt To His Father. Walt Andrus’ Texas Revolution label released the record-but just barely, selling a few hundred

The date was March 22, 2022. Bill Callahan strode onto the stage at Chicago's Thalia Hall, flanked by Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on alto sax, and Jim White on the kit. They all were feeling good, and it seemed like the crowd was also. But tha

Evil Does Not Exist is an expansive new soundtrack undertaking from Eiko Ishibashi, a stellar further display of her ability to explicate the depths of the unspoken in her music. That it is also the soundtrack to the new Ryusuke Hamaguchi feature is marve

Nearly twenty-five years after disbanding, Gastr del Sol have unpacked their archive, stringing together an alternative view to their genre-melting 1993-1998 run. This assembly of previously uncollected studio recordings and beautifully captured unrelease

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Hello, Hi: welcome in to a new room to play the styles and feels that lie under Ty Segall’s fingers, easing fresh air into acoustic space with an assortment of love songs flowering in righteous unconsciousness. Plaintive

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

Espers' self-titled first release appeared in 2004, heralding an era in which there was a perception of back-to-the-roots in the underground; kids making new music that spoke strongly of folk traditions and psychedelia, in the process setting themselves a