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BAJAS DROP BITCHIN' NEW VIDEO, ANNOUNCE EU TOUR

posted July 31st, 2014

Something pure and natural is happening--within the sound, within the song; in the album and in you. The shifts that come make changes in your moods and your body temperature. Bitchin Bajas' self-titled new album (which streets August 26th!!) is something delicate yet definite, gradually washing over your consciousness. On one hand, it is in many ways the ultimate album; and on the other, barely even an album at all. Where these ideas meet is immediately realized in the come-to-life video for the song,... (read more)

Artists in this story: Bitchin Bajas

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WATCH BILL CALLAHAN'S "JAVELIN UNLANDING" VIDEO; CALLAHAN TOUR 'UNLANDS' IN EUROPE THIS MONTH

posted July 30th, 2014

It's been almost a year since we released Bill Callahan's Dream River, but Bill still manages to find something that gets beneath the skin. Lyrically, he tugs at the loose strands of a scene and unspools 'em until he comes to the knot. Or if he's out of doors, he ruffles the chaff that makes up the haystack, looking for something sharp and hard. The visual modes of "Javelin Unlanding" are exquisite; shifting in delicate but deliberate time as Bill's... (read more)

Artists in this story: Bill Callahan

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SUMMER SCHOOL IN SESSION! PURLING HISS "LEARNING SLOWLY"

posted July 29th, 2014

It's the time for the season in Hisstory, folks! Your last waves of summer begin with a lesson: unlearn what you thought you knew and relearn the weirdness of Purling Hiss! The Hiss returns with the blissful blast of a lead single, “Learning Slowly,” an epic guitar-slangin’ masterpiece off their new collection of songs, Weirdon. Upfront guitars and drums shine through the 5 minutes of windows-down, steering-wheel slapping jouissance. It’s a pure laconic anthem in the tradition of guitar wizardry,... (read more)

Artists in this story: Purling Hiss

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SIR RICHARD BISHOP RETURNS TO THE HOMELAND, SECURITY BE DAMNED

posted July 29th, 2014

For the first time in more than a coupla years, Sir Richard Bishop will tour the U.S. Of A! Awesomely, the six-string pioneer of guitar freakery returns to put an exclamation point on this summer of love, 2014. Rick Bishop been traveling the space ways since the early 80s, as one third of Sun City Girls before striking out solo, in case you're too young to know what made you. Fresh minds will recall Sir Richard Bishop's varied, odyssey-of-an-album: Polytheistic Fragments; and his focused... (read more)

Artists in this story: Sir Richard Bishop, Sun City Girls

THE DRAG CITY NEWSLETTER! JULY 2014

posted July 25th, 2014

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Wake up, it's tomorrow! And since tomorrow never knows and tomorrow never dies either, WTF y'all? Like you, we're psyched about the prospects of the unknown day ahead. Children of the world; every day is our day! There's something for all of us there that we didn't see coming (and for some of us, it's a spot at the bottom of a ten-car pileup – yeesh, is that your taint or mine?!) or something that we knew was coming... (read more)

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RIDING FARTHER THAN EVER BEFORE: DEAD RIDER ON THE HWY

posted July 24th, 2014

The finest bugs America's byways can offer have already started to smear on the windshield of caravan Dead Rider as they ripple and swerve through Texas. The bumpers too are thick with their crushed corpse, blown dry by the unstoppable hot winds that blow against the band as they commence their nationwide journey that loops them from the South to the West Coast, across the Great Plains and Midwest all the way out East. Summer turns to fall, and the gruesome U.S.-sights meld with the... (read more)

Artists in this story: Dead Rider

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DOPE BODY COME BACK TO THE FRONT WITH LIFER!

posted July 23rd, 2014

Have you ever been punched in the face while dancing ecstatically but the person who hit you ALSO seemed be dancing and loving it but you couldn't really tell? If you’ve been in the front row at a Dope Body show – or the back row or somewhere in the middle for that matter – it’s a distinct possibility. The Baltimore quartet has built a reputationfor delivering intense live performances. Off the back of their 2012 release for Drag City, Natural History, the band... (read more)

Artists in this story: Dope Body

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HAPPY RECORD STORE DAY! LOVE, DRAG CITY

posted July 21st, 2014

As record stores go, so goes Drag City – and since we’ve been around for the last 25 years, clearly record stores have been doing something right! So we are very pleased to present you with special editions of three of Drag City’s earliest singles for a special Record Store Day of your own choosing. Three titles that changed the world! Our world, that is. DC1 - the one that almost ended it all before it really started! Any venture with Royal Trux was a... (read more)

Artists in this story: Royal Trux, Pavement, Alastair Galbraith, Peter Jefferies, The Dead C.

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OH, DISMAY! NEIL HAMBURGER'S ENDLESS ROLL

posted July 18th, 2014

Zoinks, has it really been 4 years since the last Neil Hamburger LP? I guess these days, the world's "hardest working" funnyman works hard at building anticipation in addition to touring the world over, cos we're all a-salivatin' for the release of First of Dismay! And to help you get in the mood, we're sharing the video for the album's first single, "Endless Roll," which debuted on Adult Swim earlier this week! "Endless Roll" takes aim at a certain signature trash bag and features... (read more)

Artists in this story: Neil Hamburger

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THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW YOUNG

posted July 17th, 2014

We already introduced you to his music, now Drag City invites you into the home and mind of Matthew Young! A reissue of Young's 1981 New Age masterpiece, Recurring Dreams, is set to hit the shelves on July 22nd, courtesy of yours truly and Yoga Records. Detailed minds will recall, Drag City and Yoga teamed up to bring you Matthew Young's Traveler's Advisory back in the 2010. Recurring Dreams happens to be that album's precursor (the fabric of time wrinkles,... (read more)

Artists in this story: Matthew Young