If they hadn’t before, the Bonnie recording sessions by 2006 started to resemble the assemble-the-team movie genre a la THE DIRTY DOZEN or THE DOGS OF WAR. Here’s how the LETTING GO team members, all experts in their own spheres of musical excellence, came to be a part of the recording session that yielded such a record.

Of course, Paul Oldham was deeply enmeshed in the Bonny zone, having recorded and/or played on almost all of the Bonny sessions up to this point.... (read more)

Way back in 2005, Drag City welcomed Six Organs of Admittance to the fold with the release of School of the Flower, the first Six Organs album to be recorded in a studio. School of the Flower was dubbed an instant classic upon release, and with 13 years full of 20/20 hindsight, that declaration has proven to be spot on! A video was made for one of that album's most beautiful tracks, "All You've Left", which somehow never received a proper premiere or position... (read more)

In 1996, Masaki Batoh, who'd spent the previous decade recording, playing and living in a hippie communal environment with the heavy chamber folk outfit Ghost, formed a new unit to play in a different manner. He'd just finished making an incredible new Ghost album, Lama Rabi Rabi, but making music with Ghost was a spiritual endeavor; and for a change, Batoh wanted just to enjoy the playing of the kind of music that he and his musical friends had grown up with;... (read more)

SUPERWOLF

Smoke was clearing for Will Oldham from the elaborations of GREATEST PALACE MUSIC.  Digging into the older songs had a left a brain free and wandering.  For Matt Sweeney, a separate kind of smoke was dissipating, as a years-long musical collaboration with David Pajo and Paz Lenchantin had come to a close.  Sweeney had been string-tickling in another’s wheelhouse, and his own was getting restless.  Oldham had a solo show booked in London (England) and came up with a kernel of an... (read more)

HOLY SHIFT!

2018: truly an awesome time to be alive. Awesome to witness this turning of tides. But understand, we mean ‘awesome’ strictly in classical, not contemporary, sense. As in: we are filled with the awesome conciousness that must have been shared among survivors as they rowed from the site where Titanic was last seen; or crawled, on broken legs, away from Antietam. For to see these tides turning as they are is to witness so much obsolete human behavioral garbage surfing its way from... (read more)

The Monochrome Set 
June 23rd - July 26th 2018
Opening Reception on June 23rd
8PM-11PM at Soccer Club Club
Musical Performance by Bill Nace
Drinks by Land & Sea Dept.

SOCCER CLUB CLUB is pleased to announce the opening of our summer group show. Bringing together black-and-white and darkly monochrome works in a variety of media, the show addresses the human form and it's proxies. Figurative works show bodies in action or repose, while various tangential or allegorically related... (read more)

2018 is halfway over, and in these first 6 months the Purling Hiss new music void has weighed heavily and dramatically on all of us! But fear not, that heavy cloud is about to dissipate as Mike Polizze and Co. have come through with a quick fix - a new digital single for immediate consumption, and a mid-summer tour! Purling Hiss are slithering back up the eardrums with fuzzed guitars, heady rhythms, and bucolic forays into fuzzy, blissful acoustics with two new songs (well, one... (read more)

Haley Fohr, of experimental folk project Circuit des Yeux, presents new visual imagery to accompany her extraordinary long player Reaching For Indigo; a broadcast for the fourth single "Falling Blonde".

The video presented is a super 8 film edited, directed, and starring New Zealand based video artist Veronica Crockford-Pound. It is in response to the song "Falling Blonde", our discussions about the action of falling (the most natural state of all things), and our bodily relationship to... (read more)

Recording engineer/producer Mark Nevers had introduced Will Oldham to the wonderful community of Nashville session musicians during the sessions for MASTER AND EVERYONE. Nevers noted how impressed Oldham was with how things could work at a Nashville session and suggested to Oldham that they reconvene for a future record for which Nevers would book a whole crew of A-team musicians. Oldham first conceived of bringing in a pile of cover songs culled from the breezy pop charts of the 1970s; songs from Meat Loaf... (read more)

Much like death (the state of being, not the band), The 4th Movement is a transition to a new incarnation. Risen from the ashes of Death (the band!), The 4th Movement arrived at a new beginning, one where the Hackney brothers could experiment with their sound and push it forward into something deeper and more psychedelically charged than ever before. Coinciding with a move to Vermont; Dannis, Bobby and David morphed into a heavier and more bombastic version of themselves, with the intention that... (read more)