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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)

Ty Segall rides back in with his 16th album, Possession, to be released May 30th, and with today’s announcement, releases the lead single,“Fantastic Tomb.” Following 2024’s Three Bells, Possession sees Ty on the hunt for new horizons, hitting the trail beneath the big skies of our frontier empire to take us on a high-octane narrative journey. A literary set of lyrics co-written by his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, paint an abiding view of quintessentially American stories. All the while, there are... (read more)

“In a manner befitting the everyday otherworldliness of Michael Smith’s work, I was 13 when I first stumbled on his work through Public TV’s Image Union. His “Secret Horror” was a hilarious, deadpan and appropriately unflinching look into the abyss. This superimposition of states had a profound impact on my life and work, to this day. This box set is the doorway into that world, Mike’s World, that will throw you for a loop, wild-eyed and helpless.”

— Jim O’Rourke, 2025

Emerging from the peaceful idylls and energizing spaces of their first album together, Geologist (Animal Collective's Brian Weitz) and "Sleepy" Doug Shaw are hitting the road with A Shaw Deal to offer! The two will each play separate solo performances at a handful of shows later this month, starting in Pittsburgh's Spirit Lodge before making their way south — with stops at Detroit's Moondog Cafe and Chicago's Constellation along the way.

Those familiar with Doug's incredible guitar alchemy from his... (read more)

Nearly ten years past the space time of Automaginary, Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas have reported back at last from beyond with Totality, their second collaborative album together, out April 25. The first single, "Clock no Clock", lands today with a music video.

Totality charts impressive new launch angles from Natural Information Society's ecstatic all-world jazz and Bitchin Bajas’ microtonal soundscapes. The two groups have grown ever finer in their articulation since first collaborating in 2015; in... (read more)

This is the first collaboration between Al Cisneros (OM, Sleep) and David Eugene Edwards (Wovenhand, 16 Horsepower).

Pre-order the 10" here.

40 years after they roamed the punk-strewn urban wasteland of early-80s NYC, Bag People are here to be heard (by most of us for the first time)! Their recorded music, seemingly lost to time, has been miraculously found — and now, twelve of their songs have been packed up as a self-titled album for sweet release on March 28. The second single "Blessed Ignorance" is out today!

Recorded at their practice space, the Bags sound... (read more)

Mess Esque, the heavenly duo of Helen Franzmann and Mick Turner, descend from their altostratus with a new single! "Let Me Know You" is out today with a music video from Denny Ryan.

With no guitars or drums anywhere in sight, just keyboards twinkling in stark space, Mess Esque assume an improbable new form on "Let Me Know You": the celestially curious star child, caught in the unfamiliar weight of a gravitational pull. Alone in a zone, Helen folkishly coos a... (read more)

As many Scots from both Highlands and Lowlands have done before them, musicians Màiri Morrison and Alasdair Roberts made the long journey over the ocean to Canada in June 2023. Theirs was not a perilous sea voyage — it was for a transatlantic collaboration instigated by Nova Scotian bass player and musical arranger Pete Johnston. The trip resulted in a new album, due out April 25: Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia, Màiri and Alasdair’s long-overdue second collaboration together... (read more)

Introducing Sharpie Smile, Drag City's newest infatuation! A duo consisting of Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner (formerly of Kamikaze Palm Tree), their dreamy debut single “Love or Worship” is out today for Valentine's Day, with a music video fitting the lush mood.

Pulling on the strings of heartache, "Love or Worship" is an ethereal pop track touching on misconceptions of love, devotion and fidelity. With spiralling synths and bright guitar chords, the track builds on itself leading... (read more)