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Mystery, solved! You've wondered why you were constructing bamboo rafts in your sleep each and every sticky night; now, you have your answer - not only is Bill Callahan back with a beautiful new long player called Dream River, but the River pours forth from he to you, the shadowy figure of your Dream now revealed to be, Sweet Bill. Bill's Dream River tour flows and weaves its way from his door to yours, dripping from coast to coast, puddling through the Midlle-west, sure... (read more)

Everything we do here under the Golden Arches at the Ivory Bunker is for Drag City. And yet, not all of it is Drag City. And yet again, everything we do here for Drag City is truly done for you. It's the artists of course who're cashing in. Yet again, we're cashing in on them. And you, obviously, we do it for you and cash in on you, too; and you on us, too (we supply your content). So with all that in... (read more)

Behold, Threace! It's the brand new LP from international touring sensations CAVE, arriving October 15th, and it might just bring an end to your party -- no more dancing, no more talking, just people listening to every last clang, tweet and honk of a band really getting after it. Recorded on a 1" 8-track Scully machine that may or may not have spent some quality burn-in time at Muscle Shoals, Threace was half-planned and half-jammed using different mic placements, building up from a... (read more)

Four years since the release of ...For The Whole World To See, and everyone continues to talk about Death! Be it TV's morning news or the raggedy ol' USA Today, when it comes to Death, the nation is obsessed. And why wouldn't they be? An essential part of living is experiencing Death! Drag City first teamed with Death in 2009 to properly release ...For The Whole World To See for the first time since it was made back in the mid-seventies,... (read more)

We always celebrate the last Thursday in June! This year, it's with the 3rd and final installment of the trio of videos from Sic Alps, all coming from their "brilliant" new 12" EP, "She's On Top". Yeah, "Carrie Jean" screams in it's classic Alps' rock n' talk, another days' images repeat. It's no surprise to see a big ol' typewriter right at the forefront of the visuals when you watch it, like a vintage subtitler; Donovan and crew been... (read more)

Well, what? It's summer! Solstice just rolled through, and left us with the tips of a healthy tan. Whatchoo gon' do? We're all about showing off that skin; reducing the amount of clothing we'd normally wear to a bare minimum, the best and most worthwhile accessories to better accentuate our gender-neutral bods. Then there's you: you're even better off, cause you're damn good looking, built with curves that are loved and admired by exactly the type of person you want to attract, whoever he/she may... (read more)

Cabin crew, prepare for landing! Gliding through low altitudes, Bill Callahan has set his sites on the runway. It's 2013 and he's ready to land again, with a full-length of cargo for the people down below, on earth: Dream River, set to flow on September 17th!

Recorded earlier this year at Cacophony, TX, (look it up!), Dream River features eight performances that are easily the most sensual and soulful of Callahan's career, baby! Whether flying home in a small plane, drinking with the... (read more)

It was a dark and stormy north coast night. On the horizon was the shadow of the Sleeper, his technicolor presence stretched across the land for all of the black and white world soon to see! Between two minds, between two places, on beyond Twins, Sleeper envisions a world of haves and have-nots, recorded in wide-spectrum Ty-fi. Engineered at home from beginning to end, Sleeper's ultimate sonics were accessed with a freak hand and an instinct for what makes a moment... (read more)

STANDING IN THE REIGN

The water is rising! June-going-on-July in DragCityTown, U.S.A., and our first six figurative (but also hauntingly literal) torrents of releases for the 2013 are all around you - like love, but in tangible, turntable-ready form. Which for us has always been a preferable form for love to take. Stacks so much more neatly, and don't melt nearly so easy! So with levels rising on Drag City musical, cinematic, literary and occasionally just accoutrement output - level both quantitative and qualitative,... (read more)

In today's Bonnewz, we've sat silently on this item for years - but now that the international moviegoing audience has succumbed to the appeal of Iron Man 3, we feel compelled to bring to your attention motion picture director Shane Black and Robert Downey, Jr.'s total superfandom for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's 1996 album, Arise Therefore! Shane, writer and director for Iron Man 3 (starring Robert Downey, Jr.) also wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (from 2005, and again, starring... (read more)