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)