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! 

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Flash back, to a time of big men and bigger babies! January, 2016. The times: scary. Tomorrow: kiss it goodbye. This was the headspace for Emotional Mugger’s necksnapping sketch when it dropped that very month those ten fateful years ago. "LIVE" "AT" "THE" "BBC", out January 30, pulls the mask back over our eyes and transports us to their Marc Riley session for the BBC: fifty shows into a furious tour, with a five-headed monstrosity fully backing Ty. Hear their live... (read more)

Last September, Dean Spunt dropped a deep excursion in electronic sound & syntax called Basic Editions. Soon after, Dean hit the road, eager to continue this odd pastime of twisting out new sounds from old-school E-mu modules live and in front of innocent bystanders. And now! Here comes "OCCII Dokie": two new cuts and three fresh modulations of album material from a ripping set at Amsterdam’s OCCII club toward the end of the tour. The whole thing is out now!

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