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For sure, we feel great joy in slinging the best of the Sun Ark label's latest swag on the reg: Sun Araw, mostly. Indeed, this month, we release the coveted On Patrol double LP to the world, back in print for the first time in several minutes. But as you reach down to snag one of them, you'll likely feel your hand magnetically seizing towards something else, something particularly curious - a big fat 2xLP from Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group! And celebrate, you... (read more)

Here on the Earth's surface, it feels like a quiet year for Six Organs of Admittance. A handful of Italian shows back in the spring, but what then? A single show, curiously, at the Esoteric Book Conference this very week - we're certain Ben Chasny won't be paid in what you'd call money, at least by normal standards, so what, then? EBC seeks to showcase the talents of the world's leading esoteric and occult figures: does it remind us a little of this mysterious... (read more)

If you haven't heard Carol Kleyn yet, you're about to in ways you never thought you would! We've held her in the highest regard for many moons now, this being the third sequential year that ol' Drag City has re-unveiled the rare jewels of Carol's three-piece crown. This'n, it's called Return of the Silkie (due right about the now, September 17th!). Return of the ...wha? "Silkie" is the affectionate Scottish nickname for those beautiful barking sea-creatures we 'mericans adaptively call "Seals" - and in... (read more)

Whoa, what is it with Louisville? The town that pipelined a whole funky bunch of Drag City's roster- including Endtables, Papa M'Pajo, David Grubbs, King Kong, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, and more than we can freakin' remember in our burnout haze- keeps delivering the goods. This time though, it ain't a whole new banded entity we're talking about, it's the community festival be-in camping vibe of ye olde (4 years runnin' and countin'!) Cropped Out Festival. A safe... (read more)

It's playing shows, it's live: it's like, raw and feels good, and sometimes bad. Sometimes bad-ass. It's loud, it's soft, it's really unreal, bent-time continuum and human-human interaction to the 4th dimension: bands working it out within themselves, work it out into you, then you're giving it back to them and share it with the ones next 2 U, 2. It's finding the hill and rolling down it, like Mike Donovan and band prove it, it's life as life. Dig, Donovan's solo debut album, ... (read more)

Mick Turner is risen! Rose? Resin? Rizla? Whatever! Replete with classic epics and timely reprises, Don't Tell the Driver is an inspired and focused collection of Mick Turner music that reaches for new borders without sacrificing the dizzy wandering and painterly stillness that has typified Mick's best work of the past. With the help of his many friends, Mick Turner has turned over a powerful page of life and music on Don't Tell the Driver.

Yeah, Don't Tell the Driver is different from... (read more)

Stop right there, hands in the air!If you want to know what Magik Markers think is good for you, you’ll Surrender To The Fantasy. For this long-desired alpus, they’ve been working in threes and stuff. The hermetic trifecta of knowledge, Christ and the two thieves, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and the original tagline of the Markers’ symbol: “3 down, no to go.” Meaning, these 3 get it and literally no one else needs to . . .’cept the record-buying public, tra la la,... (read more)

WHY DOES ANYTHING EVER REALLY HAPPEN?

It's such a hard world, and the main news we get every night is of people offing each other. And they're usually people who said at some point that they loved each other! It's so discouraging, but deep within this sad, grey reality is the beating heart that keeps us going forward! Passion, people - what drives a man to kill might also drive him (or his woman) to make a record instead, and totally kill with his (and... (read more)

Whoa, wherever you're looking, it seems like Scout Niblett's either there, or just was there, or's gonna be there, shortly! After all, It's Up To Emma and that means she goes where she wants, when she wants, and it just so happens the girl gets around... on tour, that is! What up now? Well, having just recently started her US tour, Ms. Niblett figured, what the hell - let's swing through Europe once again, for kicks! So here we have it, stars aligned!... (read more)

It's nearly fall season and e'rbody on the DC rosta and beyond is treckin' somewhere - in the case of food management between the Pacific Northwest and the Badlands, we hear those fruit peddlers screamin: "Yo man, dems 'nanas gettin' BLACK!" Nearby, JJ Rox and co. snuff a cig in the dirt, and snort. Shades raised, tops down, middle fingers extended, up - Black Bananas are set to terrorize stage after stage, playing foil to the mighty mofos of MGMT and their fully-primed... (read more)