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Got a death wish? Cause if you're looking for a way out, "Christmas Eve Can Kill You," declare Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, by way of a booty-fool new 7" sheduled to hit streets just in time to stuff your stockings! Well hell, even right before then, to be truthful. You're sharp, you'll have it in time to bring home for Turkey-day, Black Friday, the 8 days of Chanukah, Beethoven's birthday and even and especially the grim blandness of Festivus, if... (read more)

By now, you know what your weekend is looking like - but what do you know about what lies beyond? Consult with us here at your very own musical almanac to tell you which way the wind blows come November. It blows like this:

BLUE CLOUDS, MAD MUSIC AND YOU, KID

Next up on the reissue/vintage music roll-call: Galactic Zoo Disk presents an LP of mostly previously unheard recordings (unless...wait, does the internet count?) from Tony, Caro and John! You hard yet? Listen, if... (read more)

S'CALP'D AGIN'!

D'ja like that? That's the way we say Sic Alps around here, we just say, like SCALPS, cause we don't have time to get all the way Sic. It's on the tip of our tongue freakin' often though - what with the way that their new album titled Sic Alps (d'ya like that?) is topping the charts inside the four walls of our castle (fortified against the street freaks and beggars here in wild wild Chi West). It's been out almost a month... (read more)

SUMMER DEEP

Man...how did we get here, anyway? Here we are, sitting on top of a pile of primo records, really great shit man. The last few months must have been awesome! Time for a moment of instrospection and self-hypnosis...ahhh. Safety. Now, if memory serves, it all started in the bloody heart of the summer. This is siesta time in many parts of our incredible shrinking industry, but not here at Drag City's weatherproof fartress. July was the time we chose to start our... (read more)

UP AGAINST THE WALL

As was once so firmly-yet-sweetly intoned (and for so much sweet monetary benefit (we hope!!)), the world is a ghetto - and as one of our great song-and-dance men added in the not-too-very-recent-past, beyond here lies nothing. Now, if you're not too bummed (or fuck, even if you are), we'd like to sprinkle the old adage, ashes to ashes and dust to dust, over the top of our introductory philo-sundae, just to set the tone nice and clear. There. Is the... (read more)

Whut the gut? Formerly Extinct is alive and well on the turntable, in record stores and in our minds, ever since Rangda sacrificially gave birth to it on September 18th. If you've got sum change burning a hole in your pocket, douse those flames by picking it up, you heathen! There was a boat and you missed it, ok? But here's another skiff for you to grab onta. Anywhere, the "So-Right-It's-Rangda" tour kicks off in Europe in, like, days, man! Did you lose track of... (read more)

Get to bed, tiny people! XXXmas comes but once a year in October, and Tuesday October 2nd, 2012, is the freakin' morning -ay wherein a sweaty sweet treat's a-comin' down your chimney. Wot doth we speaketh of, all concerned? Well, tomorrow's the morning Ty Segall performs avec TSB¹ in tow in Chi's own WGN Studios, live on television for all the midwest to see. Yeah, it's not just for the 10 million or so Chicago-areans out there, but anyone with 'GN on their... (read more)

Brace up, y'all! Ty Segall’s Twins is coming at you from both sides! October 9th is lurking, waiting for you and Twins to get down together in a menage-a-wha? As you (we) eagerly await that day’s a-dawning, Ty is giving you a little more to chew on (a triplet?). You’ve already received an explosive belt in the chops of Twins' sheer metallic sheen with the chart-leaping advance single, “The Hill.” Now, here's another slice of rancid beef from the butt of... (read more)

Either you were all grown up at the age of twelve or you’re thirty and still a child. Whatever the case may be, this rock n roll brew has been concocted for your pre- and post-adolescent thirst. On Accelerator, Royal Trux roil out a crimson tide for your strain to walk upon. If you’ve got the guts to work underground, the silver and gold of guitars, drums, and vocal-hicular shrieks are here to be extracted for your profit. If you ever wondered: Could I... (read more)

Blues Control bounced in a serpentine fashion across America most of this summer and well into the harvesting season in support of their first Drag City long-player, Valley Tangents; 'fore that, L N' R (as we call them 'round the water-coolant) went all up in Europe's business with Laraaji and Arji, supporting their collabananza record from way back earlier in the year. So now what's the plan, what's up with your next trick, BC? How about switching hemispheres, shall we? OK! Blues Control are... (read more)