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For years, The Lowbrow Reader has made sporadic leaps off the printed page and onto the stage, but never once outside the dolorous (but friendly) confines of old New York city. But this time, fuck New York! Aw, don't be so sensitive, Big Appleites! All we are saying is that this l'il bit o' news really only concerns the heavenly bodies of the greater Chicagoland area! Because see, on Thursday, July 5, the Lowbrow Reader Variety Hour takes a giant leap for mankind into the... (read more)

We hate to interrupt your #Obamacare celebrations, but in case you haven't noticed, Drag City has become a power in the worldwide cassette/awesomeness market. In fact, our latest release revisits one of our biggest records of the year SO FAR, Ty Segall & White Fence's Hair! Upon hearing the finished cassette, we were amazed to discover it's the ideal format for Hair sounds, all along, just like we discovered last year with CAVE's NEVERENDLESS (classically out of print on CS, but the... (read more)

As of the late summer of 2011, Carol Kleyn was back, with her privately pressed 1976 debut on CD for the first time ever and LP for the first time since it was pressed back in '76! And now that it's summer again, 2012-style, Carol Kleyn is back! Yeah man, it's the next frame of the Carol Kleyn reissue reel, Takin' The Time! Eight years after writing her first songs and dropping out of college to pursue her passion as a street musician, Carol... (read more)

Starved for Newsom action? We're here to throw a mini-bone. In fact, if you act fast, you can catch Joanna getting minimal tonight with one of the grand old men of minimalism still mini-kicking it, Philip Glass, at The Warfield Theater in San Francisco! The cause is maxium - The Henry Miller Library in Big Sur needs money! Dramatic improvements to their facilities, as mandated by the feds, are required for The Henry Miller Library to stay open. Like better toilet tissue; we nearly... (read more)

Hold on to your soap and don't bend over - the Dirty Three are coming! Jim, Mick, and Warren are sailing out from down under and on their way to the USA! Who knows if they'll make it through immigration, or if they'll need to be smuggled, or if their smugglers will turn out to be pirates or which of their instruments will be confiscated as "contraband" by border police! Perhaps their mega-man-beards will hide them, but then what about Mick? He's clean shaven... (read more)

SOULSTICE ON ICE

...and welcome to it! It’s burling hot in the so-called real world – ie, the world outside the tent that masks the passageway to a recessed fiefdom known to mortal men merely as Drag City - but deep within the incorporate offices, it’s cold as hell! We greet the warmest season as we always do: by tightly sealing our doors and windows. What happens out there stays out there. We’ll sweat when we’re dead. We don’t deign to guess what sort of... (read more)

Whoa hay! Whuh. Sic Alps keep churning like charred butter, a little slit in the cap on top of the cat revealing the tricks from the sleeves you can't keep down. Again and again, they slap your wrists and elbows like the laughing hyena's panting tongue. But for all the little teasers and pleasers we've had since 2011's Napa Asylum, via the seven inchers and extended plays, it's durn near time for a newborn long player, ain't it? Sho' is! Wouldn't ya have... (read more)

At least they're kicking off their tour for free, for you, at Other Music tonight! But don't let 'em think your money's for nothing - cause it's fer buyin Blues Control's latest, Valley Tangents, and you know it! Valley Tangents, officially out June 19, is the freshest notch on the bedpost for Lehigh Valley's most notorious werewolves. If it's teeth for tracks, then the 7 fangs on Valley Tangents are razor sharp and ready to gleam throughout the dimly lit barrio bars... (read more)

We gave you ...For The Whole World to See, then Spiritual, Mental Physical. But you've had those for over a year, and naturally, you can't face life without more Death. After all, you've been listening to Death, reading about Death, perhaps catching a glimpse of limited engagement live Death, but it's even been awhile since that happened, so now more than ever, you're ready to actually see Death, aren't you? Death was waiting for this moment. Now, Death... (read more)

Extra, Schmextra! More dungeon-themed news from the vast, ethereal Drag City compound: deep from within our famed subterranean spa comes the first episode of “Drag City Limits!” Squeezed tightly into the sunken, steam-tiled confines, sweating, naked from the waist down (below the camera angle - this is still almost kind of a fambly website, right?), "Drag City Limits" portrays an experiential replica of what it's like workin' on site (and in sight), for Drag City. “Drag City Limits” poses the eternal question, how many musicians... (read more)