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1940s avant-garde filmmaker and subsequent Hollywood outside-insider Curtis Harrington directed everything from cult-adored horror films like Night Tide, Games and What's the Matter with Helen? as well as beloved 70s-80s TV dross, Charlie's Angels and Dynasty. With a career arc beginning in 1940s, his deeply intuitive and evocative approach to filmmaking were heralded by luminaries of the era like Maya Deren and Kenneth Anger (whose Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome featured Curtis in a starring role). In the 1950s, Curtis worked as... (read more)

The following items were found to be missing shortly after the Drag City May Newsletter went live on Friday night. These two sections were a part of a larger vision of America that the Newsletter was meant to convey. If you read it and didn't feel one way or another about America, it's probably because these two chapter were missing. Don't blame the chapters for not making the final cut. It's not their fault that they were cut-and-not-pasted in the desperate final moments of editorial... (read more)

Blues Control released Valley Tangents nearly a year gone by, during the summer of our end-of-times, 2012. Luckily for all, the end-of-times proved to be a new age of enlightenment more than anything, with Blues Control at the forefront, extending the meadows of their Valley Tangents with no signs of straying into slate, porous rock, ocean or mountain. Valley Tangents provide lush and lively excursions for all who graze on its grasses, and recent torrential downpours yield a fresh new organism on which to feast... (read more)

COUNTDOWN TO DUH-STRUCTION

Watchs synchonized and...set...hike! Drag City's suited and ready to first-respond on your ass no matter whether you think there's an emergency or not! The question is, are you ready for our own kind of intervention? If not, don't obstruct - because if it isn't you, then we're here to slice the 'dumb' genes off the bodies of the dead-headed strewn everywhere across this society! It's a modern-day Jonestown, it seems, just waiting to happen all over again. Christ, kids - don't... (read more)

With the fresh-released "She's On Top" EP object close in the proverbial rear-view mirror as it is in real live, Sic Alps gallantly drop the first of three videos (Final Cut-style - ah, Pink Floyd - where's the ground you didn't cover first?!?) from their three-song 12"EP! Directed by William Francis-Bashore Keihn, "She's On Top" rollicks San Franciscan-style just as you'd hope - like a mysteriously-flavored treat! What's in this thing? How's that wonky homonoid doing that creepy-crawl? Where's the owner of... (read more)

7/19/13 City Sounds Festival Paris France (solo performance)
8/1/13 Catalyst Atrium Santa Cruz CA w/ Daughn Gibson, Mike Donovan, William Tyler
8/3/13 Pickathon Happy Valley OR
8/4/13 Pickathon Happy Valley OR
8/24/13 FYF Fest Los Angeles CA
8/27/13 Mohawk Austin TX
8/29/13 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn NY
8/30/13 Bowery Ballroom New York NY
8/31/13 Logan Square Auditorium Chicago IL
9/2/13 Great American Music Hall San Francisco CA w/ Mike Donovan
9/4/13 Golden State Theatre Monterey CA w/ Mike Donovan
9/5/13 The New Parish Oakland... (read more)

Sometimes here at Drag City, we like to let the world present our news to you, the consumerfan, for us. Then, once every tiny inch of blog-space has been infiltrated with said news, we wait just a minute for the dust to settle before striking once more, direct from HQ, with a reminder of just who brought you such exquisite and exciting information in the first place. Yes, who knew? Drag City = Spin City. And this be one of those spinning wheels; in this... (read more)

The Source Family documentary is this season's art-house go-to cinematic experience - everybody's talkin', but we can't hear a word they're saying! That's cause Drag City Films, while proud of the promotion and distribution of it's latest film, is the younger child, the baby, if you will, in the Drag City family - and since the elder child is about the records, we're hustling hard this week to get copies of The Source Family Original Soundtrack into the hands and eventually ears of a fascinated... (read more)

Hey batter, hey batter! It's Up To Emma is in the lineup of New Drag City releases today - and in fact, Scout's on deck and approaching the plate! This is the Scout Niblett you know and love and have all waited for - new, nude and rude (a state of mind, people - clothes are mostly ON, as are the new, nude and rude perfomances) plus intimate and familiar, to boot. Like a dress or a gown that's trans-formative yet lives in the... (read more)