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17/07/2024

Happy 25th anniversary to Appendix Out’s Daylight Savings! Evoking haunting visions woven in and out of the mythic past and present, Daylight Savings is an exquisite chamber folk concoction led by Alasdair Roberts and featuring Kate from Movietone on vocal harmonies. One of all-too-few packages of arcane lore that this bunch from the heart of Scotland sent us in the late 90s - but fortunately, Alasdair has continued winningly on in the modern folk song-craft tradition through the decades since.

17/07/2024

Wand are performing live at Amoeba Hollywood on 8/1 to celebrate the release of their album, Vertigo! They'll be signing any copies of Vertigo purchased at Amoeba as well on that date! Head on over!

15/07/2024

Only a few more weeks until Bill Callahan arrives to Resuscitate! all of us with his live show from 2023, captured on 2xLP/CD and digital forms! It’s gonna help to feel Bill & band rocking us back to life. When they ask you at the counter how they can help, just say Resusciate!

Link in bio to pre-order

13/07/2024

In the late 90s- early aughts, David Grubbs’ songs-with-singing albums lept from the heights of late-era Gastr del Sol, establishing his own kind of “pop” ouvre. 2004 saw the fourth in the series, now 20 years since it dawned: A Guess At the Riddle! The bright band sound highlights Grubbs’ singular electric guitar style and a reasonably straightforward set of songs (they're David Grubbs songs, afterall!). Adam Pierce (MiceParade, The Swirlies) and Thomas Belhorn’s kit work contributed to the highflying energies; David collaborated again with Rick Moody and Matmos for a song each and covered a favorite from the recent output of The Red Krayola, making a lovely all-round production of the process. In the decades since, David’s focused on improvised and instrumental music, to marvelous effect, but with only two other song-based releases. Meantime, we're afforded a chance to crack this one open again – whata joy!.

08/07/2024

Callahan and band on the night of Resuscitate!, his forthcoming live album, fateful performance at Thalia Hall.

Pre-order Resuscitate! here: billcallahan.lnk.to/resuscitate

photo by Scott Teresi

03/07/2024

Trine ta get a handle on things doesn’t seem to be ANYONE’s bag these days – so let’s all nod thank ye to the Nathan Bowles Trio for their new music, PLUS the conviction that titles their memorable new album collection: Are Possible. Yes! We’ve been dying to hear somebody say something like this in 2024. And now they’ve upped the ante AND provided something with a handle – two of ‘em, even! Yup, it’s a tote bag ONLY available as part of the “Totes Possible” Bundle – either an LP or CD copy of the Nathan Bowles Trio Are Possible album and a bag for them to ride in on! Classy, branded and affordable –

Get yours now on Bandcamp or the Drag City site, link in bio

02/07/2024

On her 1976 album debut, Troubadour, self-made travelling musician and folklorist Dorothy Carter wanders the world’s vanished landscapes and their traditional ways, playing songs from all over on her varieties of hammered dulcimer and psaltery: Appalachian folk tunes, old and ancient psalms and hymns, Scottish and French melodies and a few of her own songs for good measure. Over 45 years later, Troubadour stands as an epochal folk exegesis for our new age.

Listen to the current single, “King of Glory”, now. Link in bio.

28/06/2024

Eiko Ishibashi has given us a glimpse of Evil Does Not Exist, with live performances of GIFT and film screenings plus Q+As with directory Ryusuke Hamaguchi in various spots around the globe.

There’s been two pre-release singles. If you don’t know by now, when will you? Today, Evil Does Not Exist is OUT NOW and fully in the world. Now, what will you do with the rest of your life? Linky in bio—

28/06/2024

The sun rises again - but this time, we don’t have to wonder what might have been and instead focus with clarity of purpose on what will BE: guitarist Lee Underwood’s 1988 acoustic guitar opus, California Sigh, sees its first-ever release on LP and TSP (Them Streaming Platforms, eh?) TODAY.

Lee Underwood’s syncretic blend of jazz, folk, and blues was a seismic force propelling Tim Buckley’s genre-stretching late 60s/early 70s music to the far cosmos – but Lee’s mid-80s return to planetary space with California Sigh - a meditation upon the land with folk and ambient healing musics, co-produced by Steve Roach - has remained a unsung footnote to his story. Until now!

Let forth with a deep California Sigh, link in bio to purchase and listen!

28/06/2024

Wandies - and the conceivable rest of you! Here’s a pre-order bonus offer for they who want to raise the level on their album experience. It’s the Turn On, Turn Off, and Tune Into the Vertigo Bundle: your choice of format - LP/CD/CS - on the Vertigo release, PLUS a Black Light Poster, plus PLUS Bumper Sticker!

Take a look - all items come branded to represent for their boggling new album; also with a really, kind of absurd sense of aesthetics - impeccable ones, yeah - intelligently designed to make you go Hmmm-into-HAAAAAAA - ahhhhh!

It’s not the heat, it’s the Vertigo! Bundle yours up now y’all! Linkin bio -

24/06/2024

Bill MacKay joyously flashes a new world of possibilities throughout his latest solo record Locust Land, and now there are new vistas abound with live dates announced in the UK, Spain and Portugal this September.

Gather your nearest and dearest to bear witness as Bill’s brilliant guitar work, otherworldly vocal textures and enriching melodies draw us closer.

Bill MacKay European Tour 2024:

4th Sept @ Café OTO - London, UK 6th Sept @ Black Lab – Barcelona, ES 7th Sept @ Bar Centro Excursionista – Valencia, ES 8th Sept @ Dabadaba– San Sebastian, ES 9th Sept @ Rock Beer The New – Santander, ES 12th Sept @ ZDB – Lisbon, PT 13th Sept @ Understage Rivoli – Porto, PT

21/06/2024

Happy 30th birthday to our reissue of Corky’s Debt To His Father coming to Drag City Records! Mayo Thompson’s masterpiece was originally released in 1970 - so happy 54 are also due to this album of such incredible properties that we can hardly believe it to this day. Surely one of the best records of the rock and roll age.

Fortunately, LPs are in stock now, so if you haven’t somehow heard of it in the last 30-50 years, you can get into its debt today!

20/06/2024

The date was March 6, 2023. Bill Callahan strode onto the stage at Chicago’s Thalia Hall, flanked by Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on alto sax and Jim White on the kit. They’re feeling good and so is the crowd, but what they don’t know is that night was ‘bout to get immortalized:

Presenting Resuscitate! 10 tracks from that fateful night, from a piping hot mid-point in Bill’s YTI⅃AƎЯ tour — not too green, not too brown. As Bill puts it:

“This is a live album that was taken from the tour for YTI⅃AƎЯ. Songs tend to mutate after they’ve been recorded. These songs were mutating faster than usual. Like whatever happened to Bruce Banner in the lab — I knew these songs were about to get superpowers. As far as I was concerned, this change needed to be documented...”

Bill went on to invite local players (Natural Information Society to name just one) to perform with him and the band throughout the show - it’s a night to remember, no doubt, but one that lives and breathes on Resuscitate! — out July 26, 2024 on 2xLP, CD, and digital platforms 
Get your pre-order now, link in bio!

17/06/2024

Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance is hosting a Bandcamp Listening Party for the forthcoming Jinxed By Being, the 6OA and Shackleton collab album that’s out June 28th!

Join Ben to give it a listen a few days before the record comes out, get the firsthand scoop on what it was like to make the record and vibe out! The listening party takes place June 25th, link to RSVP in the bio. See y’all there.

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14/06/2024

Here’s something to chew on over the weekend — today, Chris Corsano shares a playlist with us - it contains some well-loved tracks which made up some part of him while he found his latest, upcoming record, The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away].

And speaking of The Key, we’ve announced a Listening Party on Bandcamp happening on June 22nd, 11 AM CST that Chris will be present at and you can RSVP to.

So now it’s your turn - listen up and look for The Key, link in bio!

13/06/2024

Hark, denizens of the field and forest! Self-made traveling musician and folklorist Dorothy Carter’s 1976 debut album, folk-music exegesis, Troubadour, will be officially reissued for the first time! It’s been 20 years since Dorothy’s passing — but thanks to last year’s reissue of her second album, Waillee Waillee (1978), and this edition of Troubadour, her music is surging forward ever more powerfully.

Today, track The King of Glory drops on streaming services everywhere to bring you into Dorothy’s orbit of songcraft.

The mythos and arcana Dorothy Carter pursued in relative obscurity continues to inspire an audience larger than she ever knew — and now, a long-held family dream comes true with this reissue of Troubadour, out August 30, 2024.

Listen to the single now and pre-order your record, link in bio!

Photo by R.Lee Post

12/06/2024

Released on cassette only in 1988, guitarist Lee Underwood’s California Sigh was inspired by the sense of peace and fulfilment he found when spending time in nature with his wife Sonia. Here’s a few pics from some of their trips: the sights behind the awesome sounds of California Sigh - dropping on double-LP on June 28th!

Link to order in bio!

07/06/2024

Evil Does Not Exist, Eiko Ishibashi's soundtrack for Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 2023 feature film, is out at the end of the month!

A vital recomposition of the relationship of sound to narrative, and composer to filmmaker, Eiko’s latest soundtrack began as a collaboration when she asked Hamaguchi to make a video for her live performance. This live performance video then became Gift - pictured is Ishibashi doing her live performance for Gift, which had its visual material provided from Evil Does Not Exist.

Get your copy of Evil Does Not Exist now: lnk.to/evildoesnotexist

03/06/2024

Three marimbas, three voices, three psyches: This summer, Whitney Johnson’s long standing experimental project Matchess will deal sonic doubles across the U.S. with the amplified groupthink of a trio formation each night!

In June, Whitney will be joined onstage by Haley Fohr (AKA Circuit des Yeux) and Lula Asplund; in July, it’ll be Matchess, Haley, and Jenny Pulse.

Their individual practices in experimental music, sound art, and performance will invoke the “two against three” principle to alchemize a fresh collaboration on this tour of the American East, South, and West — with tremors of a new Whitney Johnson / Matchess album percolating! We’re surely feelin’ something…

Check out the full tour dates on Matchess’s website or on Drag City!

31/05/2024

It was two decades ago that songstress White Magic first brought us Through the Sun Door. Their six song debut was nothing less than a next-level expression of folk-rock for the new century; a fully formed set of absolute gems of songs, led by the idiosyncratic vision and vocal presence of Mira Billote. Listening to it today after a long time away brings that mystic vibration that comes when something unknown is found in the wild, and upon bringing it home and putting it on the turntable, it turns out to perfect in a myriad of ways.

Happy 20th anniversary, Through the Sun Door!

28/05/2024

Pulling out of a furious current, Dirty Three have planted their sea legs on dry land (Melbourne, Australia to be exact) to track their first album in over a decade: Love Changes Everything, out June 28. Our tried-and-true crew, Mick Turner, Warren Ellis and Jim White of Dirty Three, are shipping out the second single today: “Love changes everything II”

Weaving between each instrument is a siren’s call: a voice unknown, fading in and away, calling Warren, Mick and Jim’s playing into a spell.

Listen to the single and become spellbound as well, link in bio to listen and pre-order. Indeed, Love Changes Everything on June 28, 2024!

25/05/2024

John Mulaney’s award winning comedy special “Baby J” is out now on 2xLP and CD!

Get your copy now, link in bio!

24/05/2024

Attention, aficionados of sublime pop music! Jim Rafferty, who is in fact the older brother of pop singer Gerry Rafferty, has released a 7” of his single, ‘I See Red’ b/w ‘Fear Strikes Out’ and it’s out today!

His original demos provided chart fodder for Frida (late of Abba), Clannad and Ian Matthews, but Jim’s versions outshine them all! Get your copy and listen to it on streaming services now, link in bio!!

23/05/2024

The Ambarchi-Berthling-Werliin trio’s music pours off the wax with kinetic energy - as it does live and in person as well. See that latent energy just ready to radiate out from these pix? Get Ghosted II now, if you haven’t already!

22/05/2024

Following their collaboration on 2021’s Oscar winning Drive My Car, Eiko Ishibashi & filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi have returned with a deeply inspired synergistic exchange: Evil Does Not Exist, a feature film that evolved from Eiko’s absorbing new soundtrack of the same name (out June 28). Today, Eiko releases the film’s melancholy love theme and title track: “Evil Does Not Exist”.

Listen to the title track and get your record now, link in bio.

21/05/2024

If life’s a beach, then TGIS, right? Summertime ‘24 blows in like a baja - YEAH, the Bitchin kind - with a string of deep dates at natcherly heavy spots dotted ‘round the east and east-west, priming the pump for for an evolved solstice this time around. Check the deets:

6/6/24 Deep Dive Ithaca NY
6/7/24 Tubby’s Kingston NY
6/8/24 The Lilypad Cambridge MA
6/9/24 Union Pool Brooklyn NY
6/10/24 Solar Myth Philadelphia PA
6/11/24 Quarry House Tavern Silver Springs MD
6/13/24 Orbit Room Bloomington IN
6/14/24 Empty Bottle Chicago IL

20/05/2024

Are Possible is a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles spiraling from the Nathan Bowles Trio. Played (mainly) on banjo, upright bass and drums, these are songs made possible by the individual perspectives of virtuosic banjo player Nathan, double-bassist Casey Toll (Jake Xerxes Fussell, Mt. Moriah) and drummer Rex McMurry (CAVE) — working together in an easy-rolling manner, but one that contains an expansive, ass-shaking confabulation of ideas. Hear the first single off Are Possible today: “The Ternions”.

Anythings and everythings Are Possible on July 26th - get your copy now: https://lnk.to/arepossible

Nathan Bowles Trio 2024 Tour Dates:
6/26 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506*
6/27 - Asheville, NC @ Eulogy*
6/28 - Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall*
7/10 - Charlotte, NC @ Thirsty Beaver Saloon
7/11 - Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light
7/12 - Nashville, TN @ Soft Junk
7/13 - Chicago, IL @ Hungry Brain
7/16 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Acoustic Music Works
7/17 - Baltimore, MD @ Zissimos Bar

*w/ Grails

17/05/2024

With the 1999 release of U.S. Maple’s Talker, pink turned to blue and a golden age passed into a silver one over a mere but massive 33 minutes. This ostensible maturing away from the childish (eg, completely awesome) things of their first two albums was achieved by going back to the fun and frenzy of high school daze. And indeed, Talker explored the deep and electric blues of teendom with their splendidly unique touch filtered through what might have been the heaviest U.S. Maple production ever, courtesy of Swans’ Michael Gira.

Get out your yearbooks! It’s 25 years since we commenced going to bruises for Talker; time to slip off your shoes and onto the dance floor. Don’t shed a tear for the old gang - Talker walks on.

16/05/2024

Gastr del Sol: What We Were Listening to Instead of Practicing

For David Grubbs and Jim O’Rourke, Gastr del Sol rehearsal sometimes meant picking up guitars, but almost as often it meant trawling through one another’s record collections, turning the other person onto under-heralded gems of electronic music, musique concrète, post-punk, non-Western traditional musics, contemporary composition, and much more.

David and Jim put these songs together in a playlist - link to listen to the playlist in bio!!

Picture by Henry Owings

03/05/2024

In light of Faun Fables’ first-ever reissues of Mother Twilight and Family Album on LP, front-woman Dawn McCarthy has chosen songs that range from personal favorites from the FF catalog, along with influences throughout the years; these songs are the threads used to spin the tale of Faun Fables.

Link to listen in the bio!

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NBIII is on the road — shedding away, ready to play some of Are Possible for y’all in person! Are Possible is out at the end of the month — get your copy now and check out their tour dates below: 7/12/24 Soft Junk Nashville TN 7/13/24 Hungry Brain Chicago IL 7/15/24 Trinosophes Detroit MI 7/16/24 Acoustic Music Works Pittsburgh PA 7/17/24 Zissimos Bar Baltimore MD

Didja see?! Wand’s on TV! Wednesday afternoon, Cory, Robbie, Evan and Evan stopped by WGN-TV in Chicago to make their television debut on WGN’s Midday Fix - they performed the opening track from Vertigo, “Hangman”, so if you’re wondering what that track sounds like, give it a watch via the link in bio! Vertigo’s release is just about here; July 26, is oh-so-near...

Make this Summer a Magik Markers one — starting mid July, Magik Markers will be performing LIVE around the state of California! Can you believe it? well, YES! And we believe these will be thee shows of the summer! So drive, fly, bike in—we don’t care just as long as you make sure you get yourselves to one of these shows! MM Summer 2024 Dates: 7/19/24 The Stork Club Oakland CA 7/20/24 V Street House Sacramento CA 7/22/24 Sub Rosa Community Space Santa Cruz CA 7/24/24 Signal Ojai CA 7/25/24 Zebulon Los Angeles CA 7/28/24 Edinburgh Castle San Francisco CA

Dirty Three are at large in Australia for their longest run of live dates in over a decade - and we’ve been seeing + hearing some supremely happy fans claim that the Three are dirtier than ever. This clip of the boys at practice is a small taste of the incredible level they bring when they take up their instruments. We’re hoping for more dates to be announced soon in anticipation of their first new music release since 2012. Love Changes Everything is out next week, June 28th!

“JJ” arrives on 6/17. Get a reminder for the Official Premiere via link in bio. Directed by Vernon Chatman & lilfuchs Written by Vernon Chatman Art / Animation Direction by lilfuchs Character Design by Vernon Chatman Additional Animation by Julia Fernandez

Vertigo is out July 26 🌀 pre-order it now, link in bio

Sweet baby Three! As Dirty Three wade deep into their 32nd year, check out an archival performance clip from the way-wayback machine. Today, their faces may not be as youthful, but the music on their much-awaited new album Love Changes Everything attains a new apex of vitality with every unfolding moment. Hear for yourself June 28th! Get your copy, link in bio!

The Nathan Bowles Trio, hot off the announce of Are Possible, are no strangers to woodshedding (whether it be in the shed, the garage, or otherwise). Here’s some of that NBIII energy as they run through lead single “The Ternions” in preparation for their upcoming tour dates — a taste of the possible, no doubt!

How would you describe Wand in one word?

Composer/musician/Camoufleur-head Tyondai Braxton waxes and weighs in on the Gastr del Sol We Have Dozens of Titles phenom currently trending right now. If you haven’t got yours yet, we have dozens more copies, don’t sleep!

Chris Corsano working on his string drum technique, on a snare drum he’s rigged up to do just that! Chris’ sick kit skills sometimes start with assembly itself - how better to get in touch with your craft than to craft your kit before you play it? This technique and TONS more on Chris’ 6/28/24 release The Key (Became the Important Thing [and Then Just Faded Away])! Listen to the first single, “I Don’t Have Missions” and pre-order your copy now, link in bio!

It’s been a month since Dirty Three stormed in, rattled our bones and shook us with the announcement of their forthcoming record, “Love Changes Everything” along with the drop of their single, “Love changes everything I” Have you listened and placed your pre-order yet? Link in bio!

Faun Fables on Vinyl Release

It's time for the dawn of Faun Fables to rise once again - today marks the day that Family Album and Mother Twilight are released for the first time on vinyl. Chamber-folk guitars, piano and throbbing bass accompany Dawn McCarthy's striking voice and story-telling. Get yours now: lnk.to/faunfables

In addition to embodying the celebrated entertainment franchise Helado Negro (and pleasing the people with his music, to boot) Roberto Lange also numbers himself among the camp of GastrdelSolheads (a genial but ever-multiplying bunch). He’s got some things to say about the band behind the boxset (and they’re good things, too) - notes that only someone gifted enough to a fan would know to say. Cheers, Roberto! We Have Dozens of Titles is available for pre-order now, link in bio!

David Grubbs: Renaissance man or modern day Johannes Factotum? We can’t decide! Whether playing the music, teaching about it or just plain speaking on the topic, he’s always contributing. Here, he surveys his own personal collection which includes Abdul Wadud, Luc Ferrari, Leroy Jenkins and more. Take it David!

MacKay slidin’ into your feed! It just makes everything better, the slide. Locust Land is out May 24th!

Some precious archival footage of Ghost performing “I’ve Been Flying” live from Other Music in NYC in 1997! The band’s US tours marked a pivotal moment in their music career — you can see more footage on the Drag City YouTube channel now!

It's Bill givin' us a lil solo performance of his lead single off of Locust Land, 'When I Was Here' Have you heard the single yet? Link in bio to listen and pre-order! Locust Land is out May 24th

The end of February is for all things BCMC, as they'll be performing around the US! Check out dates below: Dates: 2/20/24 Constellation Chicago IL 2/23/24 Pilot Light Knoxville TN 2/24/24 Soco Gallery Charlotte NC 2/25/24 Shadowbox Durham NC 2/26/24 Rhizome Washington DC 2/27/24 Launderette Records Philadelphia PA 2/28/24 Union Pool Brooklyn NY 2/29/24 Tubby's Kingston NY

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