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At last! An astonishing new creature from the Six Organs sound-lab is ambulatory, and upon us! On Companion Rises, Ben Chasny mixes synths and digital processing techniques with spacey guitar folk to lift his signature song-craft further out, while bringing it strangely full circle at the same time. Exquisitely arrayed and rich with harmonic exploration, the album presents a handful of cosmic folk-tales whose theme can best be stated as "Stellar-Gnostic."

With "Haunted and Known", the second single from the forthcoming... (read more)

Hamerkop's forthcoming debut, Remote, is a fully immersive sonic experience with elements of electronica, pop and field recordings combining to a danceable, dazzling degree.
 

Consisting of Bachelorette's Annabel Alpers and drummer/engineer Adam Cooke, Hamerkop exudes equal parts romance and ennui. On "The Splendour That Was Rome", they synthesize disco, electro and kraut in an immaculate pop sensibility. A longing to share the good old days and sweet old world scenes with... (read more)

Corky's Debt To His Father is a solo album by Mayo Thompson, a founder of the Red Krayola. It was recorded and released in 1970 on the independent label Texas Revolution. The record is an experiment in the genre of solo singer-songwriter format and as Thompson says, it "embraces the personal and treats the instrumental power of music for the sake of expression."

Thompson will perform at the Hammer Museum on January 9th in Los Angeles, California at 7:30PM. After a sold out... (read more)

Emmy Award Winning Comedian John Mulaney aims to recapture the magic of that bygone television era when children sang songs about their feelings with celebrity guests on funky outdoor sets with John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch, running on Netflix just in time for the holiday season. What's this got to do with Drag City? Well, we've long aimed to recapture the magic of that bygone recording industry era, when funky ad-hoc groups of kids singing topped the charts - this is... (read more)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is no stranger to reworking songs into entirely new compositions when the situation calls for it, and when that call comes from deep within the bowels of Drag City, the "situation" can only mean one thing - Steamroom Session! That's right, accompanied by Jacob Duncan on saxophone, Bonnie rejiggered "I Have Made A Place", an IMAP standout, to newly-imagined peaks for a fresh installment of Drag City Limits! Contrasted with the studio version, this rendition is sparse yet poignant: Will's voice... (read more)

Okay. We’re done with Black Friday, Shat-erday Saturday, Stupor Sunday, DONE Monday, Offline Tuesday, When-will-this-end Wednesday, Is this Still Going On Thursday...you made it, to Drag City's much-awaited and completely exclusive Next Friday!

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This holiday season, give yerselves the gift of LIVE. That's right - as 2019 crashes to a close, we've got a hotbed of shows hither and yon to recommend to you. And - great news! - they're all Drag City artists, so you don't have to worry about quality at a precious time of year. But seriously, pay attention. This is complicated, with lots of different towns and time zones involved. You'll need some extra miles to do it right, there's some tough choices to... (read more)

 
The otherworldly musical duo of Greek singer and lute player George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White is an intercontinental match made in musical heaven! As a duo, White's wild n' fluid percussion enmeshes itself with Xylouris' inventive playing and resonant vocals to completely buck convention or trend - it's just a totally mind-opening experience from the opening cymbal crash on record or in person.  
 
Having just finished up gigs across Europe, Xylouris White are about to embark... (read more)

Less than six months since the release of Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest, our hero Bill Callahan takes a victory lap through the country with a fresh (digital only!) single consisting of two, infallibly Callahan-ed up cover songs! Bill's take on Lee Clayton's classic, "If You Could Touch Her at All," walks a mile in some BIG shoes--by which we mean the boots of Willie, Waylon and George Jones, all of whom did great versions of the song-- casually and confidently. With the classic... (read more)

When it's all looked back upon and counted, the moments may seem like few in this life that we're required to stand tall and shine out to the world before us. Yet they are legion. With "Squid Eye", from the now-out I Made a Place, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy counts the ways, extolling the promise of a future once we're prepared to "take from the awful an awesome". Cascades of guitar, flute and sax herald this celebration of knowing and persevering, as strength... (read more)