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Suddenly, it’s summer chill-time and we’re still kicking it extra-hard, but not so hard that you’ll ever notice. We’ve learned that you don’t get to 50 whole years of being a record label by making headlines every ding-dang quarter! For instance: now. Drag City’s in a stretch where we only have a couple new releases over a three month period! Good thing they’re both GREAT. For every Carly Simon, a David Ackles (as Elektra Records might... (read more)

Hey, we get it: you want to be everywhere at once but you can't afford it, so you spend all your time trolling, scrolling and blowing down some internet rabbit hole until you tire yourself out and fall into a restless slumber. Then you wake up, discover reality remains unchanged, and you get virtual once again. Well, we can't save you from your own fleshy existence, but we are dedicated to helping you live your dreams vicariously through others, and directing you where you need... (read more)

Hey Purling Hiss fans - your beacon of light in the excesses and deluge of common-blahs is always here for you. His name is Mike Polizze, and although Purling Hiss has shone on us with precious few glimpses of new material since Weirdon, the Hiss blisters and bubbles with twisted excitement from the excrement at ALL times, and NOW is actually no different. See, earlier this year Purling Mike went Hiss-solo on a string of dates opening for Kurt Vile, and that range... (read more)

OK, which first - the good news or the bad?  The good foot it is! Bill Callahan is coming down from his country retreat way back in the hills and headed to the city that never sleeps for a three day residency at Baby’s All Right. You heard that right and guess what, it gets better! Bill Callahan is not only performing at Baby’s for three nights, but he’ll be playing two shows each date! An early bird special for you white-collar types and another... (read more)

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)