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WHEN THE SHIP COMES IN

Nobody loves you – and what if they did? Your every admission of selfhood would be greeted with a mewling, puking retaliation intended to establish equivalency – and ultimately, supremacy – forcing you to the sidelines of your own life so as to watch the real star, your sick (sic) other. These are “relationships” –  so perhaps you'll join us then in our delight as the earth’s surface is decimated by tornados, arctic vortexes, earthquakes and high water... (read more)

The Purling Hiss sound is revered by discerning listeners for its devastational waves of guitar rock crashing atop sweet melodies and pile-driving rhythm tunes alike. These contrasts in the hands of Mike Polizze impact upon buzzing pleasure centers for each listener, more of them with every lick - people who like rock songs and like to sing along and don't mind a little dirt for their trouble, live or on record. In a best of both worlds scenario, you've got a hot "new" Hiss LP... (read more)

With bated breath, we (and we hope, you) are counting the minutes til the release of Chills On Glass - but in these crusty, rotting, black icy n' snowed up mid-winter days, time moves all too slowly. Dead Rider's approaching though - always there with a fiery (and helping) hand, they have brought a sensation-tingler of a video for the Chills On Glass jammer, "Blank Screen," to ebb our unnerving hunger!

Dead Rider, featuring the axe-wielding heroics of former U.S. Maple... (read more)

The rumors of our Death are greatly un-exagerrated! With all the portent of a polite throat-clearing, NPR on Monday premiered one freshly disenterred vintage Death jam, "North St." - but this is just the jagged tip of the iceberg that will be fully cutting into the hull of your life-ship this Spring! Yes, a whole LP of previously unheard recordings spanning the early and late lives of Death is set for release in April: Death III! Word! Death III is the spiritual end of... (read more)

ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE

It's wintertime in America – polar winds howling atop six feet of snow with more on the way – and down below, the ground all around our (reasonably) weatherproofed ivory bunker is cold and hard. Not quite the dead of winter yet, but getting there! Still, you wouldn't know it from the level of activity here – the Drag City staff is here there and everywhere, bouncing off the walls, killing floors and dancing on the... (read more)

Hey, New Bums are rollin' in! Voices In A Rented Room arrives February 18th, for which we're already stoked, but on top of that these fucks just keep adding tour dates, which stokes us even more! Oh, and forgive us if we re-mention the "killer" video for "The Killers And Me" that hit the inter-webs a couple weeks back, but we just can't help it - what loveable fucks! Today, the Bums deliver something new altogether: a disturbingly addictive commercial for Voices In... (read more)

If we could, we'd never stop bringing Death to you. Who wouldn't? A group of African-American brothers, who played hard/punk-rock in total obscurity in mid-70s Detroit, only to be discovered and celebrated 25 years later when a box of their 7" record, very few of which were made to begin with, entered the trader-scum market? WHAT! But you've seen the doc, right? If you haven't, flip on A Band Called Death - and after seeing that, you'll probly want to rock For the Whole World... (read more)

Gosh, the last six months have seen a dubble load of Bill Callahan, ever since he dumped Dream River and dropped it's dubbed out companion LP, Have Fun With God (plus the "Expanding Dub" 12", you completest!). Having graced the USA with a Dream River tour last fall, he's all set now to make a real splash in Europe, where he'll tour for the next month or so of time infinite. Dream River was voted by many as album of the... (read more)

It's only mid-day and we're drunk - with the sound of New Bums! Coincidentally, they're drunk, too! Not only that, but while we prefer to lie hidden within the shadows of our intoxication, New Bums revel in the opportunity to expose themselves to any voyeur looking for a thrill. Hence, a new video! Cosy up with Messrs. Chasny and Quinn as they deliver "The Killers and Me," a noir-ish expedition into the New Bums' nightlife. Is it a party, or a... (read more)

Saddle up! Bonnie 'Prince' Billy regularly dons a fancy hat or two while riding, clamped on tight so that it don't fly off when he makes those unexpected right and left turns that his fans love so very much. This man-myth is shrouded in more mystery than perhaps even he can solve, and we're listening close, waiting for another veil to drop. Yet, underneath the layers, Bonny rides, like the rest of us, naked -but unlike the rest of us, unafraid. It's this "natural" appeal... (read more)