NOBODY'S FALL BUT OURS

Let the wind blow! Even in the damp-infused tropic-locales of our venerable Northern Hemisphere, seasons are still changing somehow. Once again, everything is dying - and not a moment too soon! While Drag City proudly represents All Nations (and all the contradictions they imply), everyone comes from somewhere - and so we can't deny the woody, windswept essence of our mid-northern roots, which require quarterly herd-thinnings by that most judicious of hunters, Ma Nature! Out on the... (read more)

....or Peacers brings Elisa Ambrogio - it's one way or the other! They're both in the same boat. And that boat is traveling down the highway at -just above average speed, but it's picking up speed too! Or maybe it's a train! So that accounts for the sound in your mind - hear it? That's the sound of the Peacers train coming CLOSER to you! That's because, this Friday, Peacers and Elisa Ambrogioare FINALLY hitting the road together, renewing their old Sic-Alps-Magik... (read more)

Release week is upon us, people, and we're diving right in without a suit! For the next 48 hours leading into release day, Joanna Newsom’s long-awaited Divers is available to stream in its entirety in via NPR Music’s “First Listen!" This album won’t be on any streaming "services," so now’s your chance to stream to your heart's content before owning the record on Friday (own it by clicking here!). Divers is shaping up to be everyone's album of the year, in case... (read more)

A week to go until Joanna Newsom’s Divers...er, dives into our lives. And when we say "our", we mean US--as in all of us! You can't escape—it’s in the “pages” of major metropolitan outlets, on the screens of yer favorite mom & pop movie houses and even posted high above the city streets in select municipalities! Why, Joanna Newsom is even weighing in on the never ending debate of history’s greatest villain! Meanwhile, tickets for her handful of concerts selling FAST... (read more)

Hark The Silence is more than just an album by Japan's premiere pschedelic classic rock band, The Silence (led by Masaki Batoh), it's a transcendent performance that travels enormous distances and captures live energies in astonishing studio sounds. Recorded entirely on 24-track analogue tape, Hark The Silence has loads of textured sounds, both heavy and light, that ascend into space and explore new possibilities for the band.

Everything in the universe accessible to The Silence may be found in the "Ancient Wind"... (read more)

1000 Days are upon you! With just a fortnight or so before their American tour unfurls in the name of all that is new and true, Wand have something ELSE for you to look at, too! For their soarching and scorching deep-album cut "Sleepy Dog," they've turned to Meghan Tryon and Garrett Davis for something to accompany their tune - a toon of it's own, as it transpires. But def the kind of toon you only see in your mind's high, a technicolor black-and white... (read more)

Forty freakin' years since the inception of DEATH and six EPIC years since the release of the long-lost tapes of their TOTALLY seminal punk rock album, ...For The Whole World To See, these rock n' roll victims just WON'T NOT keep on knockin’! With the brand N.E.W. album out earlier this year, the sound of Death is finally back in the world where it deserves to be, with the recognition it deserves! Punk music was being kicked around by many important bands in the... (read more)

Greene Naftali is pleased to present a solo exhibition, entitled 8th Floor, of never before seen work by Mayo Thompson, the first exhibition exclusively devoted to his visual art. Since cofounding the formative avant-garde, psychedelic rock collaborative Red Krayola in 1966, Thompson has operated from a position of resistance and critical negativity, two themes outlined in the manifesto published on the occasion of the band's participation in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Overturning conventions of authorship and genre in favor of collaborative working models,... (read more)

We all know what rock and roll offered a 20th century boy, but here in the nu century, it's clear that Dope Body are the perfect amalgam of what makes rock today. Savagely contorting while pulling the hair of their influences' sounds, Dope Body chew up and spit it out with focused ferocity, making modern punk rock at it's most lethal. A synthesis of screaming riffs, brooding lyrics and digital trash, backed by a loping, tumbling  rhythm section that absolutely never lets them down, Dope... (read more)

October - and we're still poised to bounce exponentially higher to increase velocity for when we splash into the technicolored depths of Joanna Newsom's Divers! And yet a clear sightline still doesn't fully reveal the limitlessness of this momentous album, nor can it anticipate the tectonic plate shift each new announcement brings! With two songs off Divers already officially "dropped" – first “Sapokanikan,” presented with the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed video, and second, "Leaving The City," accompanied by... (read more)