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Earl Hackney, the eldest of the Hackney brothers known as DEATH - has passed away.

A message from Bobby Hackney:

We ask for prayers for the entire Hackney family as our beloved brother and elder Earl quietly joined our Lord in Paradise as he was sleeping early Saturday morning. May our loss and Heaven’s gain be a blessing to our family and all who have met, seen, and have known our beloved brother Earl’s joy and laughter.

Prison’s new album, Big Rigs on the BQE, pulls up July 31, sounding miles away from last year's Downstate and 2023's Upstate. Their third big one is an improvised rock and roll tapestry rended with gas ‘n guitar pedal on down to the metal; hear a cut of of the first side, "Sunrise Highway," today with a scorching music video by Johnny Celentano and Cliff Elor.

Wheels rolling full-tilt, rhythm churning, guitars screaming and mind-bongo-ling percussion in a boiling roil,... (read more)

Our friend and collaborator Doug Shaw passedaway from a stroke at home on Tuesday morning.

Whether you knew Doug from Gang Gang Dance, White Magic, Highlife or by his “Sleepy” nom-du-profession, he was a dude of incredible energies, as capable of bubbling over effervescently as getting deep down inside. We recognized him as a deep-thinker, a real freak and a picker unto himself. When he played the guitar, one felt in the presence of the absolute latest in the name of the real folk... (read more)

How soon is yesterday? That was the day when the city of Nevada City, California officially decreed: May 27, 2026 - Joanna Newsom Day! Please raise one with us for today, The Day After Joanna Newsom Day, as we take a long winter's nap til the 1yr anniversary next Spring. Wherever you are in our timeline, salut! Start gathering sustainably-sourced peacock feathers now for next year's parade float...!

How do you tour America for the first time in approximately forever, aka almost 15 years? If you're the Dirty Three, you bring EVERYTHING. Not simply the music and the merch for their 2024 release Love Changes Everything. You bring it all - and leave it all on the stage every night. Anyone who saw their show on the tour - all three hours of it - knows of what we speak. But if you don't, dig this 33 minute Love Changes Everything performance... (read more)

White Fence is back in front of the house making good neighbors of us all with their clean lines of power pop illuminating thoughts/feelings/SONGS. Orange you glad you can reel 'em in the ears? Open ‘em up White and buy an ‘O’ for Orange: Tim Presley's new album is out now! Check out a new visualizer for "I Came Close, Orange For Luck" below.

Los Angeles musician Aaron MF Olson is a man of many bands and hats: recording as L.A. Takedown, composing for film and television (most recently, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Matt Hewitt’s indie horror film, Hoagie), and now... as a true "sung" songsman! Songs Album II, out via Country Thyme Records on June 26, cruises through sunny pop sounds of yesteryear with modern-day wit woven throughout. Hear his new single "Who Do You Think You Are I Am?" today, out... (read more)

The two-headed, four-handed groove that is BCMC is back! The keyboard and guitar duo of Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay are dishing out their new album Stash on June 26; the second single, "Tête-à-Tête," is out today with a visualizer.

Organ breaks in purple shades tear the prog/gospel/psych/funk roof off "Tête-à-Tête" — and that's the mere prelude to the main event! The keys fly in fresh marine layers; the guitars evoke ancient, classical themes. Two tracks of Bill's string leads call and respond to... (read more)

Hit the shop running with a handmade, limited-edition record bag brandished with the chequered demon of a flag of Drag City. Tote yr records with gorgeous, next-class remit in a shoulder ride of Tanino-colored, natural-tanned cowhide leather. They deserve it! Made in CDMX, in collaboration with Ogechi Anyanwu of Eye of the Sun, each leather bag (12.5" x 13.5" x 4", with a 55" shoulder strap) features leather-laced seaming, unlined natural interior, and heat-stamping with the Drag City and Eye of the Sun logos. This... (read more)

Time stands stunningly still on The Final Painting, the dreamy, elegiac final album from legendary underground singer-songwriter/poet/painter Ed Askew. Out July 31, his posthumous album is a bracing meditation on gay romance and the slow shuffle off our mortal coil, made in the last years of his life with producer Jerry David DeCicca (who worked with Ed on 2013’s For the World). The first single, “Gray Air-o-Plane,” releases today with a music video; the song features guest vocals by Sharon Van Etten... (read more)