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Spring Break! Speak, bum - what is it about the changing seasons that entice you (us) to cut lewse and get McBombed to such ex(suc)cess? Dunno for sure, but if you're like us and you're either coming back from or about to indulge in a little R(ock) n' R(ole), it begins and ends with live fucking (and) music! So (sh)let's take a quick gander at the incredible shows Drag City artists are playing around the globe this weekend, shall we? As was ever thus, Saturday... (read more)

Introducing a new approach to playing and composing music: The Hexadic System! Listen up kids, this doesn't require the use of a computer or an internet hookup--all that you players will need is a copy of The Hexadic System book and a regular deck of playing cards. Don't have a deck handy? Raid your grandmother's junk drawer and you're in business! 

Inspired by explorations in the thought of Ramon Llull, Gaston Bachelard, Heinrich Agrippa and many other theorists in the... (read more)

Listen up, Punks! On April 21st, we gonna drop an exciting new book chock full of flyers offering a parallax view of American punk from an influential yet removed location!

A lavishly detailed document of Louisville's vibrant and diverse music scene, White Glove Test: Louisville Punk Flyers 1978-1994 is a rich visual history of an ephemeral and overlooked art form: the DIY concert poster. Beautiful, funny, and profane, the more than 700 flyers collected here vividly represent the golden age of this... (read more)

People (like us) just can't stop having so many FEELINGS about Jessica Pratt's On Your Own Love Again  - a January new release and amazingly perfect winter album (recorded in several semi-cloudy West Coast living rooms (and other kinds of rooms) over several seasons of varying temperatures). But forget about winter, we bet you a quarter (or an eighth) that On Your Own Love Again will sound equally as perfect whatever season you hear it! Shoot, her tunes sounded great in the warm-and-dark... (read more)

Life's an amazing bitch, no matter what eyes we see her through. Sometimes, we look at the fence and it's greener than the other side. Sometimes it is so bleak, we see a darkness that sucks all the rays of the sun into the whole of night. It doesn't really matter much what eyes we're looking through; in the end, it's a White Fence that lights our world. Just this past January, White Fenceblazed past the crown heads of the British Empire and on... (read more)

With glints mirroring off their gun-metal blue fenders, Dead Rider aim for the horizon! After scorching the earth with 2014's Chills on Glass (a best-of-the-year qualifier on more lists than we could count at the end of the year---by the way, what comes after three?), Chicago's finest return to throw a pair of new songs to into the public's yearning maw. This is Dead Rider, though; these songs aren't benign, "give the people what they want"-type fare, no man!

On this little... (read more)

The year is 1982. Ronald Reagan is president; AIDS and crack cocaine are rampant and are threatening to destroy entire communities. Nuclear war is imminent. It's a time of extreme excess and egregious despair. It's the absolute perfect climate for a change---a revolution is in the air and Frederick Michael St. Jude is bringin' it to the people!

Derived from this inspirational storm, FM St. Jude's 13-song, revolutionary journey is called Gang War! Gang War delves right into the grim vision... (read more)

Mike Polizze and his band of gnarled up luv-bros, otherwise known as Purling Hiss, are one again cooking to boil over! Having hibernated much of the winter to rest up from the rigors of their North American tour last fall, the Hiss are poised to crash the grids of the international zone: Europeans all over, rev up them tube amps, it's time to fry! Re-acquaint yourself with Weirdon, the explosive, fist-pumping guitar-gasm with more hits per square inch than Rocky Balboa's face, released... (read more)

Hey hey, my my, rock 'n roll can never die! And thanks to The Silence, it's alive and kickin' out the jams! Drawing deep into a collective musical soul that extends many eras into the past, The Silence fill your ears with an abundance of heavy rhythms and flowing melodies. It's a sound that transcends traditional psychedelic rock by providing a broad sonic pallet, one that's dusted with timeless elements. This soon-to-be-classic was masterfully produced with no digital interference; thus, analog instrumental colors leap... (read more)

Rejoice, today is a noble holiday in the land of Drag City!  First, 'tis the official release date for Sir Richard Bishop's elegant and expansive Tangier Sessions! Comprised entirely of improvised pieces, Tangier Sessions features Sir Rick's focused guitar playing as a mortal extension of his other-worldly anatomy (fretting- and strumming-hands, specifically)! Generating sensory illuminations under the spell of his recently acquired, ancient, and mysterious parlor guitar, each visceral strum and strike of guitar enlightenment on Tangier Sessions is smoothly rendered for... (read more)