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DAYUM! It's been a while since Wand have dropped a new record or video! 250 whole days have come and gone since the release of 1000 Days, and there was a tour and a video awhile back, but then nothing! Thankfully our Wandlessness has been noted by none other than the band, who have waved their magic you-know-what, and-poof, we have a video AND some shows! Picked from the still ripe 1000 Days, "Passage of the Dream" receives the video treatment with... (read more)

AT LAST! After a 4 year wait, the world's greatest psychedelic, underground, hand-drawn pro-zine is back! Lauded by the likes of international taste-making publications everywhere, Galactic Zoo Dossier returns with a brand new, mind-expanding issue! Painstakingly illustrated by Plastic Crimewave and bad ass contributors from around the globe, GZD is also celebrating its 20th anniversary (fifteen of which have been arm-in-arm with the forces of Drag City)!

Issue #10 of the Galactic Zoo Dossieris the Interview Issue, featuring sixteen interviews with inimitable... (read more)

The planets are about to align! In a short few weeks, the cosmic convergence of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Bitchin Bajas materializes in the Midwest and on the East coast for a solid batch of utterly unique live performances.  Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties, their mind melding collaborative effort, fuses new age synthesizers and gentle instrumentation with softly sung fortunes of goodwill. The live sound of Bonny Bajas is modular, free flowing, and flexible in the air---a living, breathing, expanding and contracting body... (read more)

And just "Like That," White Fence wing on over to Europe for a quick tour! An arrow-sharp blast through a wide range of continental territories has Tim Presley and the gang moving and performing with great efficiency - like a proper White Fence song, they're hitting all the right notes with a gracefully deft economy. Festival season is in full effect, and White Fence have broken through the perimeter to take center stage for all the innocents to enjoy. Yeah, ...For The Recently Found Innocent... (read more)

Following a most sketchy tour of the United States in February and March which included stops at populist TV programs The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and CONAN, Ty Segall and The Muggers went underground. Coinciding with warmer weather elevating the city's ripe sewer stench, they've re-emerged, grimier and bleaker than ever - even more suitable for the great unwashed they typically attract on the road. The road of which we now speak runs through the European continent, as Ty and his Muggers are... (read more)

As Cate Le Bon departs the US following her triumphant national tour to spend the summer playing dates across Europe, we have the pleasure of unveiling a new video from her acclaimed album Crab Day!

"Love Is Not Love" is directed by the wonderfully idiosyncratic Turner Prize nominee Phil Collins (just like the short film)! The video, shot in Berlin, sees Cate being joined by an elite troupe of dancers to engage in some seriously avant-garde yet clinically synchronized dance routines! Buckle up... (read more)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy aims to steal your face with an epic, live rendition of the soft-yet-funky "If I Had a World to Give" on CBS' This Morning! The Dead are often a point of contention between music fans---is it hippie drivel for drug addled baby boomers or a visionary group who have contributed more to modern music of all genres than the Velvets!? Well, wherever you stand, one thing we can all agree upon is that Bonnie 'Prince' Billy rules!

Bonnie's intrepid voice and... (read more)

Joanna Newsom oh-so-gracefully keeps Divers and "the delvers" afloat with appearances across the USA! Naw, we're not talking about a performance you can attend in person, but rather several you can enjoy on your own time, in the safety of your own personal space, wherever that may be! Things kicked off earlier this week with a conversation between the inimitable songstress and Dave Eggers at San Francisco’s City Arts & Lectures. Next Monday, May 23rd, J-New saddles up with Marc Maron for his fuckin' WTF... (read more)

Here Come The Rattling Trees is more than an (amazing!) new album from The High Llamas - as a complete concept, it's actually a full on stage production, a play written by Sean O'Hagan about the Peckham neighborhood in London, England. In this setting, the album's music becomes a freakin' live score performed in real time by The High Llamas throughout the course of the play. First run back in 2014, Here Come The Rattling Trees is about to go for a second run, beginning... (read more)

Continuing the Flying Saucer Attack reinstatement program that began with last year's new release, Instrumentals 2015,and the subsequent reissue of FSA's 1995 LPs Further and Chorus earlier this year, we arrive at the 1997's New Lands and 2000's Mirror.

Following the chilled-out acoustic drafts blowing through both Furtherand Chorus, it seemed that the direction for future FSA musics was clear: increased melodicism with more roots exposed in ever-cleaner productions, right? Uh, no. After what felt to be an... (read more)