The Silence has descended upon us once again! In the two years-plus since their previous album, Nine Suns, One Morning, their leader Masaki Batoh recorded and released his solo album, Nowhere - but from the first chimes of hazy guitar arpeggios that open Metaphysical Feedback, we are transported right back to the unique rock and roll space that The Silence conjure whenever they plug in and come together. As with their previous three albums, The Silence use the sound of analog recording as... (read more)

Drag City Press - the final frontier! Or so we thought back in the year 2000 (whotta coincidence) when we put out John Fahey's How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life. For a record label like ours, releasing books somehow implied the big time - and so we continued to search for projects that we could get behind and continued to find goods ones that now fill our catalog - or as we like to call it, "library." Now it's 2019, and we're still... (read more)

"Wasted" is a reflection of Nashville legend Chris Gantry's long and winding path through this world - but the vitality of the songwriting stops the music from becoming simple elegy or denouement. Chris' crafty old-school way with a tune and his smooth melodicism gives him the space to tell his tales with ease; lovers, losers and madmen are depicted with warmth and empathy, a genuine love of the human spirit and the singing chops of a man who's known tens of thousands of... (read more)

Put the hot 'n humid back into summer! Deep, drippy and super trippy, Purling Hiss' latest EP, Interstellar Blue, is packed to the brim with four new tunes available exclusively on the digital doo-dad of your choice! The first single, "Useful Information", is a euphoric outpouring of sugared guitar and insta-catchy vocals atop a steadfast n' slithering rhythm section, kaleidoscopically coloring what you hear like a full-on head rush. Mike Polizze's got a penchant for executing perfect "stuck-in-your-head" songs... (read more)