BURY THE LEADER

Drag City is back - but don't you DARE call it a comeback! How can we come back when we never went away? And what do we have to come back FROM anyway? What, are you gonna tell Rangda, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Bitchin Bajas (and their high-flying fans) that this month's shiny new releases are somehow MORE and BETTER than last month's? Or are you talking about us coming from last year's lousy (sez you, ugly!)... (read more)

Hex it up! Behold the righteous combination of Neil Michael Hagerty and The Howling Hex AND Fred Armisen! No, we're not talking about some unholy musical collaboration, but instead an audio-visual partnership of mega- (and maybe even meta-?) proportions! Comedian/actor/musician and international jet setter extraordinaire, Fred Armisen, recently journeyed to the Land of Fire and Ice (....Iceland, kids.) and we can prove it! The music video for the new Howling Hex single, "Mountain," showcases Armisen's trip to an Icelandic news station with the... (read more)

Throw the net! Crab Day has arrived. With the glamorous slam of Cate Le Bon and band pulsing in and out, the moving pictures would together in "Crab Day" (the movie) transpire to mean more or less than words. Directed by award winning visual artist and Turner Prize nominee, Phil Collins, "Crab Day" utilizes inspiration and elements from Cate's stunning forthcoming album. Actually, other than Crab Day, there are no words in this particular picture - just the luxuriant images crafted by... (read more)

Seasons change, and now that spring's around the corner, why not open up the windows and freshen your musty old interiors, huh? And since Here Come The Rattling Trees is such a fresh piece of wax, spin it on while you're doing your cleaning! The latest LP from the venerable High Llamas, England's finest purveyors of meticulously breezy-n-lite modern pop sounds, Here Come The Rattling Trees was just released in January to critical acclaim. And while everyone's clamoring for these blissfully woozy sounds (making... (read more)

Last year, filmmaker Olivia Wyatt invited Bitchin Bajas to add incidental music to the climatic sounds of her feature-length experimental documentary on the nomadic Moken people, Sailing A Sinking Sea. This new album release packages the soundtrack LP with a DVD of the film, thus opening several windows to the eternal questions posed on both formats and providing two distinct pieces of art coming from the same source. 

Sailing A Sinking Sea is a feature-length experimental documentary exploring the culture of the... (read more)

Scout Niblett has been here and there and everywhere, and in each of those places she remains - she lies just beneath the surface until the time is right to strike! And what time is it? Oh-HO, right, it's time for Ms. Niblett to strike again! Starting Thursday in Leipzig, Germany, Scout Niblett embarks on a two week tour of Europe, totally solo, yo!

We know what you're thinking: "ah, now is a great time to get reacquainted with The Calcination of Scout... (read more)

Now that 2015 is over, it's becoming easier to count on one hand what the true masterpieces of the year were - and Jim O'Rourke's Simple Songs was definitely the middle finger of that bunch! As it should be, it's still resonating (they say it's all in the mix - nice one, Jimbo!) with listeners worldwide, on stereos in dwelling spaces everywhere, and will inevitably do so until the (not too distant) end of time! With a record this compelling from an artist THIS... (read more)

You will soon discover how truly fortunate you are! The fluid flavor crystals composed of effortlessly kindred spirits, Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, are bursting with the radiance of a thousand suns, the rays of which are set to irradiate our planet! Their brand new convocation ("album" seems too reductive a term!) is a collaboration of mammoth -erm, excuse us-
EPIC proportions! Glowing with goodwill and the fine fibers of facile fortune, Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties is a dreamlike sanctuary... (read more)

Ty Segall & The Muggers have your best interest in mind! With the bulk of their North American tour safely in the rear-view (piled up in the squealing mess it left behind), Ty and Los Muggers wanna put us all down for the count with one last night-cap: TONIGHT! Set your TV, DVR, or European streaming service to TBS for CONAN at 11PM EST / 10PM CST for musical derangement this evening, yo! Ty Segall and The Muggers will give you candy via CONAN and... (read more)

Purling Hiss was always a home-made daydream conceived in the cortexial-folds of Mike Polizze's mind, OK? That conception, initially four-tracked and blown out in Polizze's basement all by his lonesome, has blossomed into the high-flying dive-bomb blister of a power trio that festers and oozes with high-gain six-string slingin' across a bubbling, slithering rhythm section. That's the vibe of last year's Weirdon, which cloaks some of the best pure-rock righting in recent times, and 2013's Water On Mars, which carried serious... (read more)