Rejoice, today is a noble holiday in the land of Drag City!  First, 'tis the official release date for Sir Richard Bishop's elegant and expansive Tangier Sessions! Comprised entirely of improvised pieces, Tangier Sessions features Sir Rick's focused guitar playing as a mortal extension of his other-worldly anatomy (fretting- and strumming-hands, specifically)! Generating sensory illuminations under the spell of his recently acquired, ancient, and mysterious parlor guitar, each visceral strum and strike of guitar enlightenment on Tangier Sessions is smoothly rendered for... (read more)

THE WORDS THAT COULD HAPPEN  

Good morning, good morning – and welcome to another day in the life of Drag City Records, here in the only world we’ll ever know. But in this world, we are a vessel, and life pours through us: ours and other lives like it. This is our joy, to be involved in the passage, the way through from on beyond for so many weird and wonderful people’s inspiration. Our dream is to make records. As Weird War ... (read more)

It's been a little over one week since we shared the first sweet strains of Masaki Batoh's new band, The Silence. "Lemon Iro No Cannabis" is a drug that keeps on drugging all the heads who can't get enough - folks like you and we, who never want The Silence to end! If it hasn't sunk in yet, the sounds of The Silence were captured in a 100% analog fashion - from recording to mixing to mastering, not a single digital element was... (read more)

As the constructs of the new Hexadic album spill out into our air, there's definitely a feeling of atmospheric pressure surrounding our earspace. Part of this is just the way Six Organs of Admittance IS - and part of it is because of what the Wizard of 6OOA, Ben Chasny, has been doing with his time since Ascent. Over the last two years, he's been working constantly to develop a alternative system of musical composition (in a laboratory located within a castle,... (read more)

Since the discovery of Death in 2008 and the release of the archival LP ...For The Whole World To See, the story has been often told: three African-American brothers: David, Dannis and Bobby Hackney, tapped into the surging energy of their hometown rock-and-roll scene (mid-70s Detroit) to produce a style and a set of songs that, while completely unappreciated in their day, proved later to be a powerful missing link in the evolution of punk rock.

It's been an EPIC... (read more)

 Alasdair Roberts' new self-titled album made it's way into the world just last week, moving with a sense of humility, of gravity and of confidence, which is where the best music comes from; naturally, instinctively and as needed. Evident upon listening is the sound of fulfillment in the Scottish singer's performance, his ability to create striking songs with the concise plucking of strings and very little else. The world is not always right, fate may not often be kind, but Alasdair is full... (read more)

Time is a mystery - whether it's passing you by or carryin' ya along, it's up to The Silence to conquer its enigmatic path! On first listen, it's as if The Silence, led by former Ghost front-man, Masaki Batoh, has transported us to a different time-- one in which the existence of auto tune and digital music have yet to be imagined! Analog, 24-track studios, tape - all touchstones for Batoh, and essential to the sound of The Silence. As these... (read more)

My sweet lord, do we have a discovery for yer heads out there far and wide!  Not long after the resurrection of the singular glam/genius platter intentionally known as Here Am I, a dark and mystic carrion pigeon touched down on our window still.  It flew at the bidding of cult icon/living legend Frederick Michael St. Jude, hipping us to another piece of his late 20th-century Ren-Man puzzle in but two words: GANG WAR.  Whuh?  Yuh! GANG WAR.  Derived from a... (read more)

Six Organs of Admittance seldom provides the expected. Rather, it's safest to expect a deviation from all previous encounters whenever discussing a new album from Ben Chasny's blast of a band. Slight of hand, a prankster? Not all the time. Perhaps not even that often - dude is straight up with what he's doing, he just has the ability to cut it at such a rate, and with careful tangent that it blurs in the common eye. And sometimes, it's just that his gnarly... (read more)

Good - another new year! We follow the old Roman calendar, just like you, just like the good children of imperialists that we are. It matters to us that when you turn the page into 2015, you find a whole world that's good. Lest you doubt our intentions – don't worry, they are FAR from altruistic –  we hope you find a whole world that's good BECAUSE of (and filled with) Drag City records of all kinds! If we're not in the mix, fuck... (read more)