Melodiously receptive ears rejoice! The High Llamas, the best in the game at warmly wonderous pop song, arrangement and harmony, are set to return with a new album!

How'd it come about? While cycling around his home-district of Peckham (in southeast London) a few years ago, Sean O'Hagan decided that not only would the new High Llamas music be driven by narratives, a collection of stories, but they would first have to be performed as theatre; reshaped theatre, if you like, blending... (read more)

With Hexadic II, Six Organs of Admittance's second endeavor into the world of the Hexadic System, Ben Chasny's deftly maddened acoustic guitar playing hits our ears after what feels like a kind of forever. What may signify to some ears as folk music is caught in an equally compelling undertow of powerful subterranean energy. Ghostly vocals of divergent timbres sing over the fluid interplay of guitars, harmonium, violin - and pure space, as the reverberant room around the sounds plays as... (read more)

Soccer Club Club is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and ceramics by LA-based artist Laura Owens. 

The exhibition will run from October 29th through December 18th, with an opening reception Thursday October 29th from 8pm-11pm. The gallery hours are 10am-6pm Monday through Friday, and by appointment.

Soccer Club Club is an exhibition and performance space operated
by the record label Drag City and is located in what used to be
a former Polish Soccer Club.

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What a fuckin' wave! Joanna Newsom's astounding and enriching new dual LP (and CD! And CS!) was finally unleashed to the world last Friday, and this sweet beast cannot be tamed - Divers ripples turned tidal leading up to and through its release! So simply enjoy the ride, why don't you? We're already fully on board, wearing floaties with a cocktail in our finest evening attire, and from our view, more succulent surprises lie straight ahead! Finally, after two long weeks of knowing a... (read more)

The trio of Al Cisneros, Emil Amos, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe maintain a singularity of purpose that is the core of all OM records and performances, but no single reason can account for the comprehensive nature of their evolution. Where God is Good was the first step in a more ornate and sophisticated direction for OM, Advaitic Songs achieved a level of composition that would've been impossible to foresee. The release of their subsequent dubplates further enlightened all who listened (and... (read more)

NOBODY'S FALL BUT OURS

Let the wind blow! Even in the damp-infused tropic-locales of our venerable Northern Hemisphere, seasons are still changing somehow. Once again, everything is dying - and not a moment too soon! While Drag City proudly represents All Nations (and all the contradictions they imply), everyone comes from somewhere - and so we can't deny the woody, windswept essence of our mid-northern roots, which require quarterly herd-thinnings by that most judicious of hunters, Ma Nature! Out on the... (read more)

....or Peacers brings Elisa Ambrogio - it's one way or the other! They're both in the same boat. And that boat is traveling down the highway at -just above average speed, but it's picking up speed too! Or maybe it's a train! So that accounts for the sound in your mind - hear it? That's the sound of the Peacers train coming CLOSER to you! That's because, this Friday, Peacers and Elisa Ambrogioare FINALLY hitting the road together, renewing their old Sic-Alps-Magik... (read more)

Release week is upon us, people, and we're diving right in without a suit! For the next 48 hours leading into release day, Joanna Newsom’s long-awaited Divers is available to stream in its entirety in via NPR Music’s “First Listen!" This album won’t be on any streaming "services," so now’s your chance to stream to your heart's content before owning the record on Friday (own it by clicking here!). Divers is shaping up to be everyone's album of the year, in case... (read more)

A week to go until Joanna Newsom’s Divers...er, dives into our lives. And when we say "our", we mean US--as in all of us! You can't escape—it’s in the “pages” of major metropolitan outlets, on the screens of yer favorite mom & pop movie houses and even posted high above the city streets in select municipalities! Why, Joanna Newsom is even weighing in on the never ending debate of history’s greatest villain! Meanwhile, tickets for her handful of concerts selling FAST... (read more)

Hark The Silence is more than just an album by Japan's premiere pschedelic classic rock band, The Silence (led by Masaki Batoh), it's a transcendent performance that travels enormous distances and captures live energies in astonishing studio sounds. Recorded entirely on 24-track analogue tape, Hark The Silence has loads of textured sounds, both heavy and light, that ascend into space and explore new possibilities for the band.

Everything in the universe accessible to The Silence may be found in the "Ancient Wind"... (read more)