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Just east of Hollywood, Tommy Peltier’s made sweet music in the Echo Park hills for over sixty years. A jazzman first, he recast himself in 1970 as an LA troubadour, crafting a set of glitter-light pop tunes that somehow missed release — until now! Dating back to the early-mid-1970s, Echo Park is an encompassing trip through a whole other time and place, mixed and mastered with great zest by Jim O’Rourke. The first single, “Flight of the Dancer,” releases today with a visualizer.... (read more)

Smog-sayers! Callahan connoisseurs! Purveyors of good taste, wherever you hide! We call your attention today to the final single off Bill's new record, My Days of 58: take a deep breath and listen to "Stepping Out for Air" today.

"Stepping Out for Air" sits underneath overcast skies, where Bill considers "a walk among the Zoloft pines" and beauty in the little things. Dotted with small jokes, little asides and a prayerful phrase or two — and blown down the path by... (read more)

Some 42 years after its initial release, Drag City returns Circle X’s Prehistory to the vinyl format on February 27, 2026. The Louisville-NYC art-punk-rockers insisted on carving a system beyond standard definition, their debut album existing bafflingly outside of time when first released in 1983. Decades later, they shall continue to exist as an extraordinary, near-unclassifiable band out of New York’s No Wave movement.

Circle X was formed in Louisville, Kentucky, operating between 1978 and 1995 but existing largely as a New York-based collective.... (read more)

Launching a rally against the unending worldly chaos of the New Year, Tashi Dorji lets out a new song today: "burn the throne." For the second single off Tashi's forthcoming album, low clouds hang, this land is on fire, he delivers his electric guitar improvisation through absolute darkness: wistful halos of reverb, slowly taking focus as a light at the end of the tunnel. Tashi maintains a languid air throughout, even during the restive activity of the final section — measured, disciplined and... (read more)

It's been five years since the last ER Jurken album. Five years! As we roll into the new year, we're relieved to say the wait is nearly over. His second album, To Be Continued, is out January 30th, and today ER's sharing another taste of what's coming. On his new single "Mighty and Concealed," ER & his pocket orchestra raise themselves up to towering heights on a gorgeously surreal rock mini-epic that recalls progressive rock’s gaudy yesteryears. As the band rages and pounds,... (read more)

2026, we’ve hardly known you! We’re ready to start things on the right foot, though. So: let us introduce the new year with an earworm flowing from the mind/pen of Animal Collective’s Geologist! Today, off his upcoming solo album, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?, Brian Weitz unveils “Government Job” with a music video by Michael R. Bernstein (Religious Knives, Double Leopards).

“Government Job” multiplies a scratchy inch of percussion via drumkit, vibraphone and acoustic guitar... (read more)

Plucked from A Desert (Joshua Erkman’s 2024 feature, out NOW on DVD), this banger from Florida (U.K.), a mostly unheard electronic unit from Fresno, CA, makes for seductive soundtrack material in a sketchy party scene mode. “Taste Your Love (A Desert Mix)”is the movie edit: dark, throbbing dance floor miniature SKETCH, kneading your tension-filled pressure points, exculpating desire in shuddering waves. The “(Extended Party Mix)” levels up: time and repetition work on the relentless mechanical undulation of beats and synths, exposing another... (read more)

A surprise gift from Bill Callahan, just in time for the holidays! Before we all collectively check out for the season, Bill's here to end the year with a new song for every kindred spirit: "Lonely City," the second single off his forthcoming new album, My Days of 58. As the drums tease and take their time, Callahan strums his six-string forward with admiration, sending his voice out to the familiar, ever-changing places we call home: "First thing I do / When... (read more)

Following two records of mangled acoustic guitar strings and maxed out noise, Tashi Dorji’s next step down the improvisational path is a welcome surprise: he's gone electric, yet relatively reigned it in, and sought the silence! With his next full-length album, low clouds hang, this land is on fire, fast approaching, Tashi stopped by the office to bless our mess with an enrapturing performance for the latest in a series we like to call, the Drag City Steamroom Session. Broadcasting deep from the... (read more)

People! Have you looked towards Inland See? The new album from Bitchin Bajas is out now, pulsating with life-renewing energy, and their signals can be felt across the oceans. Charged up from a juiced US tour (including dates with Stereolab), and carrying that Inland See momentum into the Spring, today we're pleased to announce that Cooper, Rob and Dan will continue setting up groove towers with their first Continental European tour of 2026 set for April! 

Bitchin Bajas tend to... (read more)