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How do you tour America for the first time in approximately forever, aka almost 15 years? If you're the Dirty Three, you bring EVERYTHING. Not simply the music and the merch for their 2024 release Love Changes Everything. You bring it all - and leave it all on the stage every night. Anyone who saw their show on the tour - all three hours of it - knows of what we speak. But if you don't, dig this 33 minute Love Changes Everything performance... (read more)

White Fence is back in front of the house making good neighbors of us all with their clean lines of power pop illuminating thoughts/feelings/SONGS. Orange you glad you can reel 'em in the ears? Open ‘em up White and buy an ‘O’ for Orange: Tim Presley's new album is out now! Check out a new visualizer for "I Came Close, Orange For Luck" below.

Los Angeles musician Aaron MF Olson is a man of many bands and hats: recording as L.A. Takedown, composing for film and television (most recently, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Matt Hewitt’s indie horror film, Hoagie), and now... as a true "sung" songsman! Songs Album II, out via Country Thyme Records on June 26, cruises through sunny pop sounds of yesteryear with modern-day wit woven throughout. Hear his new single "Who Do You Think You Are I Am?" today, out... (read more)

The two-headed, four-handed groove that is BCMC is back! The keyboard and guitar duo of Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay are dishing out their new album Stash on June 26; the second single, "Tête-à-Tête," is out today with a visualizer.

Organ breaks in purple shades tear the prog/gospel/psych/funk roof off "Tête-à-Tête" — and that's the mere prelude to the main event! The keys fly in fresh marine layers; the guitars evoke ancient, classical themes. Two tracks of Bill's string leads call and respond to... (read more)

Hit the shop running with a handmade, limited-edition record bag brandished with the chequered demon of a flag of Drag City. Tote yr records with gorgeous, next-class remit in a shoulder ride of Tanino-colored, natural-tanned cowhide leather. They deserve it! Made in CDMX, in collaboration with Ogechi Anyanwu of Eye of the Sun, each leather bag (12.5" x 13.5" x 4", with a 55" shoulder strap) features leather-laced seaming, unlined natural interior, and heat-stamping with the Drag City and Eye of the Sun logos. This... (read more)

Time stands stunningly still on The Final Painting, the dreamy, elegiac final album from legendary underground singer-songwriter/poet/painter Ed Askew. Out July 31, his posthumous album is a bracing meditation on gay romance and the slow shuffle off our mortal coil, made in the last years of his life with producer Jerry David DeCicca (who worked with Ed on 2013’s For the World). The first single, “Gray Air-o-Plane,” releases today with a music video; the song features guest vocals by Sharon Van Etten... (read more)

Totality! Automaginary! The in-studio convergence of Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: two albums made over a decade of time, brought ye now together on CD (both for the first time). Congenial and organic, individual and ensemble inclinations incline in crafting new rhythm ‘n gravity pieces. Invisible force meets ancient object: unique passages in time by two ensembles in shared & separate forever arcs.

Automaginary + Totality 2xCDs are available to order now! This July, Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas will... (read more)

Following a slew of sold out dates this Spring, Glyders profess their undying devotion to the UK and Europe in the only love language they know, by rocking these shores once more with their hi-voltage, low-slung boogie rock.

New album Forever’s spirit is high and tight, and the road-tested live show certainly delivers that slab o' wax's goods with communal joy as the power-trio formation grooves deep into their signature hi-octane jams.

Come choogle with 'em again or check out... (read more)

Are y’all ready for some Hillbilly Erotica? Sir Richard Bishop returns for a new spontaneous six-string meshing of people’s music, recollections and psychic intentions with a new album out in the wild on July 31. Hear the first single “Finger, Tennessee” today, released with a music video by Sir Rick himself.

“Finger, Tennessee” is an acoustic improvisation that feels inexplicably miraculous. Extruding LOUD, Sir Richard's “hillbilly” playing is downright reckless, flying up and down the neck with a melodic, anthemic light. The music... (read more)

This summer, citizens west of the Missouri River are advised to stay alert! Come late August, there's gonna be Dead Rider sightings along the I-80 corridor as far west as Colorado. Since there's no telling what they might do outside their natural habitat, you are further advised to BE THERE, WHAT MATTER NO: in Iowa City, for their first local show since 2018, in Omaha, unplayed since 2014, and — this can't be correct — Des Moines, for the first time ever? Dead Rider should... (read more)