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The bouncy pop-tones of Sean O'Hagan's High Llamas are timeless, at once occupying genres both modern and retro, for an entirely unique listening experience. And listening is the key; meticulous arrangements and airy acoustics have been most resonant in recent Llamas albums like Talahomi Way and Can Cladders, creating a most pleasurable aural experience for listeners and performers alike! On that performance tip, it's been over two years since the last Llamas show and the chaps are ready to play! Ol' London Town... (read more)

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Good April to you! It’s almost Spring wherever you are, or perhaps Fall down under? If so, welcome to it! We dig the seasons, all of ‘em. Change is important – remember we said so! And welcome as well once again inside the doors of Drag City, where weird gets wired into the system all year long, and every hour is another one in the endless loop known as record store day – because isn’t music forever, folks? Don’t we hear it... (read more)

Sure, LA had a thriving punk scene, and yeah, it involved some death of its very own! But DEATH was actually something bigger than passing through to the next phase for 3 Detroit kids playing guitar, bass, and drums in 1974 - it was a band, with a sound ahead of its time, who finally got the whole world to see them in 2009 with the release of ...For The Whole World To See. But hell, you know the story! You've seen the doc,... (read more)

Pusswhip Banggang first debuted on "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" in 2006. Songs like "Fudge Man," "Kiss Me Once" and "Don't Call Me Uncle" established the group as a leader in swamp rock. They toured in 2010, playing for thousands of fans across the USA. Their first official release is not only a song, but also a recipe for one of the great Naw-Luns dishes: Jambalaya.

The package for the "Jambalaya" 12" is ultra-deluxe: gatefold jacket with reverse-side printing on the... (read more)

During this season of the ominous Blood Moon, with all it's vibrations and implications, we know: it's tempting for you to hide your fragile mortal selves for a while and avoid whatever intense change the Tetrad has to bring. But dig it, people - you don't have to hide out when you've got a field of low end force surrounding you! OM radiate heavy, heady and ultimately calming tones to help guide us through the cosmos; they reach faithfully toward the skies without fear, knowing... (read more)

Ty Segall strikes back! His first new record since Sleeper is a 7-inch single that comes busting out the gate with a whiplash of headbanging licks building up out of a hard-strummed acoustic riff. With lots of room for solos and cosmic lyrics like "feed the freaks in the skies, let them live in each other's eyes," "Feel" is the fist-pumping roller-coaster ride through the fun house that will leave you grinning with rad-itude. "The Fakir" dims the lighs for an acoustic recital, but Ty... (read more)

New Bums have just about finished thumbin' around the USA leaving echoes of their dueling guitars and voices all around the finest and ugliest venue circuit this country has to offer. It's a Bums' life, where delicacies of both high and low cultures are to be cherished, like the fellow humans and sub-humans their songs both describe and appeal towards. Now, with the end of the USA leg in plain site (get on it, San Francisco!), these Bums set their sights on Europe, with... (read more)

April enters... a little bit of rain... and suddenly, Laetitia Sadier blooms forth, gigs sprouting across the United Kingdom, Ireland, and beyond! Since onset the of Silencio, 2012's plea for Sadier-ites to find the pulse of the universe and proviso for understanding "The Rule of The Game," Laetitia's toured 3 continents in 2 hemispheres before returning home to her garden, where seeds were planted for a fresh crop of nutrient-rich tunes! Things begin in Great Malvern, where happening Great Malvernians will be... (read more)

Cassettes are hot, sure, but they're not the heatseekers they once were, back in the days of oh-one-two. No, that crown can now be claimed and reclaimed again by that revolutionary format of the 80s-90s: CDs! It's hilarious to think that this format has been discarded and exiled as an outdated, irrelevant listening tool, considering how the crisp, immaculate sound represents the entirety of the audio spectrum as heard by the artists when recording their albums. Intuitive and empathetic ears will glean much from the... (read more)

Faun Fables are constantly creating - song, sound and of late, kids - and once again, the seams are set to burst! Blossoming with the dewy defrosting of April, Faun Fables assemble their family caravan and head to Joshua Tree before turning back West again to play for the big city folk of Los Angeles, at The Roxy this week. From there, it's onwards and definitely upwards as Dawn & Nils travel North to the wild country of Washington state and all the greenery it... (read more)