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Tashi Dorji turns to the electric guitar for his third Drag City album, low clouds hang, this land is on fire, out January 30. After the furious acoustic improvisations that drove the previous two — Stateless and we will be wherever the fires are lit — his electric guitar now sets up a greater shock: a disarmingly gentle musical drift. Today, the first single "gathering" releases with a music video by Robert Beatty.

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Geologist is the nom-de-théâtre of Brian Weitz, whose pursuits have been an active part of the music underground since he was 15, playing and working in alignment with an organic ensemble of friends that would one day choose to call what they were doing Animal Collective. Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?, the first-ever proper Geologist solo album — due out January 30 — is Brian’s pursuit of a musical answer to the not-oft-enuf-ast question: what if, back in... (read more)

Jim White's new album Inner Day is out tomorrow! Ahead of the game, Jim releases the gorgeous instrumental track "Two Ruffys" today with a new music video directed by Anna White.

"Two Ruffys" scores a feverish sense of disconnection, seeking to make sense of the isolation that life and death invariably brings. Named for a place down the road from his late father’s home, Jim’s song combines two pieces written in the wake, meditating on two states – an ambient weave... (read more)

Step inside! Anthony Moore's scorched-earth cabaret presents a new single today: "It's Fear." AKA & Friends’ long tones and drones, slow oscillation and scrape of strings are unto a pagan liturgy of electro-acoustic wonders, as Anthony, his image flickering like a hologram mixed with haunting Bowie-esque flashes, intones cautionary future-tales. As the sounds of the song-ritual unfurl, the earth below you grows hot. Is it the music, or...?

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Glyders pull up today with new tour dates and a new single/video on the sweeter side! "Moon Eyes" goes both electric and acoustic to highlight the wistful track, its formal rock ‘n roll elegance recalling the inevitable progression of classic missives like “Lookin' Out My Back Door” and “When I Paint My Masterpiece.” Glyders’ down home musings about time and fate ("Think I'm gonna go back home / hold some hands and bring my favorite songs") play out with moonlit romance, a lovely acoustic... (read more)

With his new album Possession ringin’ free and fine across the airwaves, Ty Segall and his band are in full-on tour mode! While currently tearing it up on the West Coast, today we're pleased to announce that Ty & the guys (Emmett Kelly, Mikal Cronin, Ben Boye and Evan Burrows) head back across the country next April to possess the South, Southwest, and Midwest. Check out the tour dates below and grab your tickets while you can!

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Off his upcoming new album Traveling Light, Rafael Toral unpacks a stunning new single today: “Solitude.” This Duke Ellington number has received many unique treatments over a near-century — from jazzers including Thelonious Monk, Marc Ribot, Matthew Shipp and Mary Halvorson — though this version owes the most to Billie Holiday’s matchless vulnerability. Commencing with an almost sacred air, as if reflecting upon ages of consciousness from a great height, Toral lingers along a reconfigured melodic path, his guitar refining the... (read more)

Tomorrow, we wake up to a new album from Sir Richard Bishop! YES! And today, the six-stringed woodshedder shares a new music video for “Head Bone in the ‘Tater Hole.” Opening with the kind of galloping figuration that once might have constituted a waltz or a kind of Latinate dance, Sir Rick quickly boils his ideas down into a steaming stew of theme and variations. He slashes and hacks from the guitar’s neck and body with impromptu energy and unstoppable propulsion, losing nothing of... (read more)

Jim White proudly announces a new single, "I Don't Do / Grand Central," a marvelously turbulent vocal duet between Jim and Zoh Amba. The new music video, edited by Eve Sussman, demonstrates Jim and Zoh in lineage with the great vocal pairings such as Birkin/Gainsbourg, The Human League, and Goyte/Kimbra. The spirited exchange takes the pair straight to the Oyster Bar of Grand Central Station where the two commune and parry in delightful form a la Belmondo... (read more)

As we sail toward Inland See (out this Friday), the saporous sounds of Bitchin Bajas only grow louder! Their new album was a live endeavor, written on the road and tracked with barely any overdubs — so it’s only natural that this 8-minute live video of “Skylarking,” directed and edited by Michael Gaertner, looks and sounds like Bajas on full blast. Watch it on YouTube now!

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