Dope Body's new album, Kunk, (which drops on August 28th) will hit you like a ton of bricks. Kunk tones are that of a pure, unfiltered primitive nature, like a funky predator stalking its prey. Comprised of the unhinged jams and riffs muscled around between takes recording last year's Lifer, Kunk is a toxic mutation of a record, compiled and edited into songs of the most elastic, loose variety. While Lifer presents an uneasy, blackened cloak shrouding tightly composed rock anthems, Kunk... (read more)

What's more all-American than a hamburger? Neil Hamburger, of course! This month, America's Funnyman is making the rounds at a dirty (but laff-filled) dive bar near you! That's right; the world's hardest working comedian is headed out on the road again, delivering all-new jokes alongside his classic routines, which over the years have produced side-splitting laughter (as well as rage from some paying customers who don't appear to understand what "comedy" is...fucking assholes!)! Neil's latest effort, First of Dismay, merged jocular comedy segments... (read more)

Chicago motorik devotees CAVE are synergistic, energetic, and easily identifiable with their upfront and repeti-grooving sonics. Yet so far in 2015, a CAVE sighting has been totally rare, the band seemingly gone enigmatic. Finally, the echoing cries of deprived CAVE-ovotees have bounced around enough for the guys to awaken, strap on their gear, and fire up the caravan - CAVE are goin' on tour!

Known for their rolling funk minimalism, thickly laid out with sax-and-flutatious flourishes and pulsations, CAVE are the REAL... (read more)

Remember the Alamo? The Texas Revolution? If you do, congratulations: you're the oldest living human being on Earth! Sure to cause fewer casualties than those historical events but guaranteed to be equally as thrilling, Texans should prepare to experience a little more Death! Pull up your boots and strap on your spurs, Detroit proto-punk legends Death are headed to the Lone Star State once more next month!

In the eight years since the rediscovery and release of their classic, proto-punk, never-saw-the-light-of-day LP,... (read more)

If you're looking to cure the summertime blues with some fodder for your noggin' AND you live on the West Coast - GOOD NEWS! Ben Chasny will be in selected coastal towns playing acoustic Hexadic music, as well as lecturing on The Hexadic System at bookstores in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles!

Chasny conceived of The Hexadic System as a new approach to playing and composing music, using it to create Six Organs of Admittance's Hexadic album, released in February... (read more)

It's but once in a lifetime that two bands merge to create a powerfully hypnotic palette that sounds as effortless as it does urgently essential and immediate. Enter Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas-two groups, each in pursuit of the musical unconscious under their own auspices, have co-joined! Together, Natural Information Society's free, grooving spirituality and Bajas' synthetic minimalism converge and shift in a delicate synergy. This idyllic combination of melodic-drone and activated rhythm carves a psychedelic path on "Anemometer,"... (read more)

When news first dropped of Alasdair Roberts' fall 2015 European tour, we thought the bloke might be spending his summer off (as is common in his parts) resting up for the occassion. Aye, wrong we were! Ali's got a motor that was built for longevity (hence the hundred-year old songs, not to mention the hundred-MINUTE ones!), so why in the world would he spend August on a beach when he can spend it touring the UK, performing solo, with his Glaswegian brethren, Trembling... (read more)

ANOTHER DAY IN THE LIFE

We Drag City…Records! We MAKE records, long time now. MANY seasons! It…has… grow…evolve? Each record, grow thought, change your mind, give you NEW idea, inspire….educate you, brain and your and soul together! Make perspective. Music will make you CHANGE – your thoughts and words and ultimately all YOUR LIFE will change. Ah! Records carry their listeners toward the light of new thoughts on winds of real musical entertainment. We can never know when... (read more)

All heed Faun Fables! Dawn, Nils and the family troop are out on tour right this very second, making haunting, folk-ish music fun again- they may have recently played your American hometown, they've definitely just played in Poland, and they're still coming down the road! Now that should be reason enough to get off your ass and shake it (your sunbonnet, we mean) to a participating venue near you, but just in case you're not totally convinced (what are you, some bozo?! Of... (read more)

Meg Baird is not one to sit and bask in any glory. Instead, she tirelessly collaborates and constructs new material for the world to enjoy on a regular basis. Don't Weigh Down The Light is her latest (and greatest!) solo offering to date amongst a decade of sure-as-shit can't miss recordings, done both under her own name and with her previous outfit, Espers. So it should come as no surprise that once again, Meg's ahead of the curve with a NEW version of... (read more)