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...and welcome to it! It’s burling hot in the so-called real world – ie, the world outside the tent that masks the passageway to a recessed fiefdom known to mortal men merely as Drag City - but deep within the incorporate offices, it’s cold as hell! We greet the warmest season as we always do: by tightly sealing our doors and windows. What happens out there stays out there. We’ll sweat when we’re dead. We don’t deign to guess what sort of... (read more)

Whoa hay! Whuh. Sic Alps keep churning like charred butter, a little slit in the cap on top of the cat revealing the tricks from the sleeves you can't keep down. Again and again, they slap your wrists and elbows like the laughing hyena's panting tongue. But for all the little teasers and pleasers we've had since 2011's Napa Asylum, via the seven inchers and extended plays, it's durn near time for a newborn long player, ain't it? Sho' is! Wouldn't ya have... (read more)

At least they're kicking off their tour for free, for you, at Other Music tonight! But don't let 'em think your money's for nothing - cause it's fer buyin Blues Control's latest, Valley Tangents, and you know it! Valley Tangents, officially out June 19, is the freshest notch on the bedpost for Lehigh Valley's most notorious werewolves. If it's teeth for tracks, then the 7 fangs on Valley Tangents are razor sharp and ready to gleam throughout the dimly lit barrio bars... (read more)

We gave you ...For The Whole World to See, then Spiritual, Mental Physical. But you've had those for over a year, and naturally, you can't face life without more Death. After all, you've been listening to Death, reading about Death, perhaps catching a glimpse of limited engagement live Death, but it's even been awhile since that happened, so now more than ever, you're ready to actually see Death, aren't you? Death was waiting for this moment. Now, Death... (read more)

Extra, Schmextra! More dungeon-themed news from the vast, ethereal Drag City compound: deep from within our famed subterranean spa comes the first episode of “Drag City Limits!” Squeezed tightly into the sunken, steam-tiled confines, sweating, naked from the waist down (below the camera angle - this is still almost kind of a fambly website, right?), "Drag City Limits" portrays an experiential replica of what it's like workin' on site (and in sight), for Drag City. “Drag City Limits” poses the eternal question, how many musicians... (read more)

Ever wonder what lurks in the dank, labyrinthine basements of Drag City? Us too! Aside from stockpiled condoms, poppers and hand guns, the murky depths have only stubbornly given up their secrets! Recent digs turned up a curious revelation: there's more to the basement than the hoarding of doomsday resources! It appears we've housed a booking agency ever since we moved into our new manse - what?!? Imagine that! Staffed by illegal aliens, we expect - ol' Drag City, Inc., always pinching a dime (or... (read more)

Bonny charity always givin'! And given the success of last year's "Free Florida" tour, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy done goin' to give it a go at the opposite end of our fair 'merica, the Puget Sound and it's little string of towns n' such. Now, what we're talkin' bout here is, HOLY FUCKING SHIT, BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY IS PLAYING FREE SHOWS AT NUMEROUS SPOTS ALL AROUND THE WETTEST PART OF STATELY WASHINGTON! Yes'm! Ahem. OK, so - well, you want the details, huh. Right, ok. Ungh,... (read more)

Chicago loves its theatre; but how often is a stage set for 2-fers worth a cent? None too often, in our stage-minds! At least, none full of balladry and songstressing by the likes of both Baby Dee and AZITA. Dat's right, Baby Dee is back on tour, harpalizing, piandifying, and generally vaudevillianizing audiences left n' right across not only America, but the northern playgrid of Canadia, too! Baby Dee is full of gifts, even for the fey and meek. But the biggest (re)gift(ed) light... (read more)

Wilson Semiconductors is but a half-year past, yet in this current time-sphere in which we sell records, the average consumer-schmuck may've shifted gears 'n ears a thousand times since it's release. Which is why it's essential for contemporary artists to remain agile and active - and that requires regular workouts, preferably on stage! How else will those consumer-schmucks separate the girl-goo and boy-cream from the crop? Neil Hagerty and his Howling Hex are building a village, one pediarchy at a time, and now the king... (read more)

The word is out, rolling up the dunes and down the valley - that's Valley Tangents, baby, your summer gateway! Blues Control's latest tube ride in over a minute catches the choicest wave of the bridge-and-morning-tide set. The curl kicks out with "Love's A Rondo," a glassy track you can either ride or simply dive your whole bod right into. So real, you can almost see it, right? Well this time you can! Dig the Tara Sinn directed video for "Love's A... (read more)