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Joel Vandroogenbroeck's uniquely trippy catalog of music vignettes are long overdue for their day in the library music sun. His style, fusing inspirations from jazz, traditional music of the world and the psychedelic rock experience, gave Joel a unique sound in a world of unusual sounds. Far View collects exotic drifts of library music from Joel's Coloursound releases of the 1980s, transmitting his singular vision of so called 'stock' music while also evolving the heavy spiritual vibes of his incendiary work in the 70s with... (read more)

With the release date for Mess Esque's Drag City debut album nearing, Mick and Helen have dropped a new video for their latest single "Sweetspot"!
The video, directed by Charlie Hillhouse, is equally hypnotizing with a dreamlike quality that gently rouses the viewer from induced inertia only to be thrust further down the rabbit hole. A story told in multiple parts, it demands your divided attention. Helen's words on the song:

"The song was about artists wanting to be in flow at first. The Sweetspot. I started... (read more)

At the invitation of KPM Music, Six Organs of Admittance wizard Ben Chasny stepped behind his acoustic to produce a pristine new set of guitar instrumentals. Is it library music, or deeply personal essays on a formative instrument? Under Ben's fingers we hear it both ways and beyond: The Intimate Landscape is simply beautiful music that spans beyond the limits of folk, ambient and soundtrack music.

On "Six Diamonds," the latest single from The Intimate Landscape, Chasny fuses melancholic acoustic guitar with... (read more)

Ty Segall’s new album Harmonizer is a synthtastic production redesign and makes for some of his cleanest songs and starkest ideas to date. Bringing together booming drum machines and corrosive guitars, “the wonder of sound is baked into the album from the title down, be it twin leads or the multi-part vocal harmonies that coat every song” (Brooklyn Vegan). After surprise releasing the album last month via Drag City (the physical release is set for October) and sharing the video for “Feel Good,”... (read more)

Looking at history the wrong way round through the telescope, objects may appear closer than they actually were! Yeah, life's a Rashomon even in reverse. Sometimes you have to take the long view - or in this case, the Far View, which compiles tracks from Joel Vandroogenbroeck’s legendary Coloursound library music series — a uniquely trippy catalog of sonic vignettes, freshly remastered from the original analog reels and long overdue for their day in the library music sun!

The late Joel Vandroogenbroeck was among... (read more)

Regretfully, Matt Sweeney and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy will be rescheduling most of their upcoming Fall tour with Jonathan Richman. With the ever-evolving situation due to COVID-19 and having been through lockdown before, out of an abundance of caution we want to be preemptive for the safety of the performers, crew and audience. Some of the shows cannot be rescheduled due to conflicts beyond our control, but Superwolves are working hard to ensure they will perform at each city when it is safe to do so. Here's to... (read more)

Mess Esque, the newly minted duo of Mick Turner and Helen Franzmann, have been mixing up the medicine for their second single "Jupiter". For a new band it really helps to have a hit single, so this new radio friendly unit shifter remixes one album cut, reshaping it into a smoldering, cascading indie ballad!

If you've heard the first Mess Esque single ("Take It Outside"), you have a perhaps already divined their intent: to ride the sleepy drift past moments of stasis, beyond... (read more)

This last spring - March 5th, to be exact - AZITA emerged from a lengthy artist retreat with her first album in eight years, Glen Echo. And it was more than worth the wait!

AZITA's trip to Glen Echo mixes various times and vibes: righteously grooving goodness, acerbic exchanges overheard in the street, invisible shifts and silent echoes from empty corners of the old neighborhood, the little wins and losses one carries through life, all voiced, phrased, arranged and played as pop music that... (read more)

Two weeks ago, Ty Segall surprise-released Harmonizer, his first new album since 2019, out now digitally via Drag City and physically in October. Today, he presents a music video for one of its standouts, “Feel Good,” and announces a North American tour with the Freedom Band. “Feel Good” is one of Harmonizer’s two songs to feature lyrics and vocals by Denée Segall. The music video, directed and produced by Joshua Erkman, sees the Segalls taking a late night drive between... (read more)

If you've been listening, you may have already heard the new music we call Mind Maintenance. As the name implies, it's meant to affect you between the ears - but this doesn't mean you can't derive full-body benefits as well! The natural buzz and percussive qualities of Joshua Abrams' guimbri and Chad Taylor's mbira sit consonantly against the other, their shared resonance forming a sonorous whole. Immediate and meditative - so simple, so physically in the room!

In 2021, there's a worldwide need for... (read more)