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)