Drag City’s man in Scotland Alasdair Roberts has partnered once more with Scottish Gaelic singer Màiri Morrison — a native of the Isle of Lewis — for their second collaborative LP, Remembered in Exile. Ahead of the album's April 25 release, the two have a new single/video to share: "The Bonny House of Airlie".

Paired with Pete Johnson’s Canadian all-star band, Alasdair sings lead and Màiri takes the harmony on "The Bonny House of Airlie". The track's slashing rhythm arrangement and roiling... (read more)

Out June 27, Gabba Gabba We Accept You is a children’s picture book telling the story of a misfit kid who grew up to be a punk rock hero — that is, Joey Ramone. A collaboration between visual artist Lucinda Schreiber and author/writer/parent Jay Ruttenberg, it's a story that speaks to one of the greatest silent majorities in the world: all the kids who feel a little different.

The splendor of the kid who grew up to become Joey Ramone is that, despite... (read more)

Faun Fables, the long-running collaboration between Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl, have returned with a new album, Counterclockwise, out May 30. The follow-up to 2016’s Born of the Sun, it marks the longest space between albums in the band’s twenty-seven year history, a living atmosphere of songs and family, enchanted by the nature of time and the experience spent growing together. The first single, “Ember Bell,” releases today with a music video by Lara Miranda.

Counterclockwise is the first Faun... (read more)

Drag City and Yoga Records are delighted to return to the music of Matthew Young with a new album, titled Undercurrents, due out May 30. Recorded intermittently since the late 1970s, it fits in perfectly alongside—as well as builds and expands upon—the work within and the ideas of Matthew's previous two LPs, Recurring Dreams (1981, reissued 2014) and Traveler's Advisory (1986, reissued 2010). The first single, "Reflexion," releases today with a music video.

Matthew Young, born in 1950, grew up in Lawrenceville,... (read more)