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Crisis of Conformity. Ian Rubbish. Blue Jean Committee. Test Pattern. What do all of these legendary, forgotten groups of yester year have in common? Fred Armisen! His record collection runs deep; from lost, essential hardcore punk of the 80's to breezy yacht rock; from art school-inflected new wave to regional, softsational piano rock-Fred's brought us the best crate digging finds this side of the Atlantic! The problem with reissues, though, is you always find yourself thinking "man, this is great, but... (read more)

Wake up! 2017 is coming - and you're behind already. The New Year promises great awake-dreams right out the gate; witness The Tim and Cate Show, in 19 cities spread across our brave new country! Yes. Following their respective 2016 solo records (The WiNK and Crab Day - respectively!), Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley announce a co-headlining tour to bring their many great solo songs to life in a social eye. And speaking of to life (and to eye):
 
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October's crop rises in the face of summer's fallen dusk, and here we are: it's fall! Out of the corn stalks come children, scythes bared, ready to hunt, and Pumpkinheads everywhere light candles within themselves to haunt - and along with them, the Faun family make their rounds! Faun Fables released Born Of The Sun in July, alongside a midsummer night's tour of America in their family RV - an idyllic vessel and voyage for the song telling folkisms for which Dawn McCarthy and Nils... (read more)

There's no place like the American landscape today; the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free - shouting fervently over the droning, never-ending voices of the establishment! Growing up in the fabled idyllic 1980s led Mike Polizze to evolve into a reasonably disenfranchised adult, rife with Notion Sickness and a permanently broken heart. These are the stakes he's driving  for the new Purling Hisstent High Bias, their third full length for Drag City, an estranged and disillusioned vision for here... (read more)

Be it discordant, melodious, or harmonic, the artists in the show all have some connection to sound, through composer fathers, musician spouses, studying dance, creating music videos, or incorporating musical lyrics in their work.

Mari Eastman uses images from personal photographs and popular culture to make figurative paintings based on autobiography, creating an image memoir that mixes fact and fiction.

Rebecca Morris makes large abstract oil paintings in a distinctly personal visual language which incorporates brilliant color, clashing patterns, awkward shapes, symmetry, use of layering... (read more)

Bitchin' Bajas and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy have just finished up another little nug of a tour, this time scraping the bottoms of the American Midwest and the tops of the South, and all were fortunate to experience the performances. Shit, their Cropped Out Festival performance in Louisville alone was powerful enough to move a mountain - we're surprised its gravitational pull didn't realign the banks of the Ohio River! And now, as the Epic Jammers & Fortunate Little Ditties campaign continues rolling into the future,... (read more)

If it seems brighter and a bit more deafening in the world today, congratulations! You're not dead (yet) and some of your senses are still working. In fact, you might just be perceiving that there's a new Major Star in the sky - one so formidable it's already been named, and you haven't even heard of it until now! 

Motion Set is the 9th Major Stars LP and their first on Drag City since 2010's Return to Form, with Decibels of Gratitude appearing in 2012. This has left Starsheads around the... (read more)

For the first time, a showing of original art from the famed hand-drawn psychedelic magazine will be exhibited to the public! The Galactic Zoo Dossier is a hand drawn psychedelic magazine occasional going since 1995, created by Plastic Crimewave, and has been published by Drag City since 2001. Issues come with a CD or cassette compilation of rare sounds and trading card sets of damaged guitar gods and astral folk maidens. Interview subjects have included Vashti Bunyan, Arthur Brown and Edgar Broughton! 

OPENING RECEPTION ON... (read more)

Breathe - in through your nose, out through your mouth. Feel the energy passing through your body, from your head, down through your legs to the earth. Turn your heart to the sky - and realize that a new album from The Silence is nigh!

Nine Suns, One Morning is the third album from The Silence since their formation in Tokyo in July of 2014. Fronting the sound of The Silence is Masaki Batoh (formerly of the legendary Japanese band Ghost), who... (read more)

Los Angeles! New York! Chicago! Austin! Columbus! What do they all have in common? Well aside from being internationally recognized as the USA's cultural glue, they're the only cities the newly reformed, permanent Veterans of Disorder we familiarly call Royal Trux have chosen to play since buying back into themselves and deciding what the world needs now is a little more Sunshine and Grease! Neil and Jennifer are STILL the true blue frequency - the baddest asses grooving in and out of any alleyway, the... (read more)