OHIO RIVER BOAT SONG

It was the summer of 1992 and Todd Brashear invited his friend Will Oldham to come live with him in Bloomington, Indiana where Brashear was in the Audio Engineering program at IU.  Oldham moved into a house with Brashear and his schoolmate Grant Barger, and soon they began working on music all together.  They set up a weekend session at the house with Barger at the controls, using his 8-track cassette recording machine (not to be... (read more)

What News is Alasdair Roberts' fourth album focused exclusively on the performance of traditional songs, all of which aim to bring the auld songs forward, but also to re-imagine them for modern listeners. What News features David McGuinness on pianofortes and fortepianos of various vintages (plus the odd dulcitone) and Amble Skuse providing electronic embellishments, while Alasdair sets the guitar aside (with one or two exceptions) to focus on his singing. This is in part to allow the unique qualities of David and Amble's... (read more)

You know where you are? You're in the Fishcenter, babay, and you're gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie! Just Kidding! In fact, watching Bitchin Bajas' hypnotic performance on Adult Swim's Fishcenter Live actually has the opposite outcome, breathing fresh new life into the body and rejuvenating the soul. After a quick dip in the tank, Cooper, Rob and Dan feel so refreshed, that they're embarking on a whopping month-long tour of Europe before heading out on a West Coast tour of America! Watch their performance of... (read more)

Bonnie Prince Billy's cosmic path is passing through Tennessee this weekend - more specifically, through Knoxville, and to be even more precise, through the Big Ears Festival that's happening RIGHT NOW. This isn't just any normal Bonnie Prince manistation - which is not to imply that there IS such a thing - instead, both he and Cheyenne Mize are performing with Norweigian vocalist supreme, Susanna, this evening.  In and among the surprises of the performance will be included songs from Bonny's recently-released Wolf... (read more)

Chris Gantry's At the House of Cash turned a lot of heads last fall, and why shouldn't it have? An archival release from the golden days of the Nashville Outlaw sound, and a totally outrageous artifact from the cowboy-hippie era's Search for Higher Meaning, At the House of Cash stretched past the limits of acceptability of it's day with a heady song-stew allusively referencing all manner of celestial visions under the sun - from Jesus to peyote! That's just the kind of stew we... (read more)

OUT WITH IT!

New - and next month! This month - and last month! Here at Drag City, it's all fair game! Everything is all-new again, for the first time, all the time! To keep our cultural expressway to your skullcap freshly paved, we're partnered with dozens of friends 'n family in the music-art-film-comedy-literature-communication-and-sometimes-just-a-t-shirt realms, all working together at the nexus point (of all things, natch! – cosmically-conscious ed.) to bring out something that changes the complexion of today/tomorrow/last week/50... (read more)

We're ALL Goblins and we ALL want our Freedom. The freedom to love or to be alone; to be pretty or pretty ugly; the freedom to turn the other cheek or to turn up the volume. The freedom to experience Ty Segall live in cities big and small nationwide!

That's right--Every1's A Winner this time around, even you! Ty Segall & The Freedom Band are kicking things up beginning on April 3rd and dropping into twenty-two North American venues (with European cities... (read more)

We all dig pouring over the extensive interviews found within the Galactic Zoo Dossier, and nothing blurs our eyes with bliss more than its entirely hand-drawn graphics (gracefully put to page by the sandalwood-stinking hand of Plastic Crimewave). They always arrive with creamy mixtapes of exclusive music, too -it's the only essential interstellar psych fanzine out there worth reading! But every once in a while, when we're on the go, we forget to pack every volume in our satchel. It's the pits! So... (read more)

There's a warm front heading in, so hot in fact, that steam looks downright cool. And since we're not all gonna die - not yet - in a towering planetary hot-house inferno, let's go to a show! Chicago's tripped-out, acid-burned, shattered glass-sharded (but bulletproof) trio du jour Dead Rider are blazing off into the sunrise with their tour of the east-by-north-and-south-east next month. Tagging with the Mountain Goats, the (Dead) Riders of the storm will also be headlining solo shows in Chicago, New... (read more)

With five full length albums under their belt, No Age has matured beyond their sweaty basement days, ramshackle rhythms and primitive songwriting. These days they ride high on skillful experimentation in song-writing which produces blistering tunes that defy categorization. Their intensity and vigor has remained constant over all these years, but the final product is more polished than ever.

Snares Like A Haircut leaps out of the gate like vintage No Age: after an initial set of raw pummelers radiating with waves... (read more)