***In the spring of 2025, right around the release of Possession, Ty Segall started hearing voices, calmly at first, but soon screaming: “Get the band back together!!!”Immediately, his mind began working, creating, collecting and collat- ing riffs for songs, an album that he and the band—Ben Boye, Evan Burrows, Mikal Cronin & Emmett Kelly—will come to all call Chrome.Chrome—the element, not the album—is shiny, reflective, resistant to corrosion. Chrome the album’s got that too: in hard-springing rock strung with lyrically allusive passages moving furtive and bleak through labyrinthine paths in the darkness. Joining social phenomena and autobiographical dream imagery in song-sequenced, head-snapping flashes, hitting left/right hemispheres fast and furiously. In massive riffs and thudding power in the rhythm core, twin-guitar attack and parry, tightly arrayed lines of fuzz distortion, keyboard textures of bright and thickness. All mixed immediate and flexible, colorful and clean, spicy-sweet, with Ty’s vocals of vinegar and sand, wine and grains of silver nitrate, pointing the way. That’s Chrome.
CD $14.50
08/28/2026
LP $28.95
08/28/2026
MC $12.75
08/28/2026
***Guitar lord Sir Richard Bishop: ‘one guitar, six strings, no overdubs, 7/8ths improvised, 1/8 composed’ are the terms for a faux vol 2 of speculative Hillbilly music, a psychotic mash of inspired modal post-grass recitals, inherited recollections and new national anthems. Revisiting his pa’s ol’ Tennessee home, Rick’s picks are steel-string mayhem on the tracks, American music at its most gorgeous/literal/violent. And you can dance to it! Are y’all ready for some Hillbilly Erotica?
CD $14.85
07/31/2026
LP $22.75
07/31/2026
***In his last years of life, poet/painter/songwriter Ed Askew worked again with his producer on 2013’s remarkable For the World album, Jerry David DeCicca, to create an evocative new set of songs, which would become The Final Painting. The twilight energy is at once lush and minimal, with contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Eve Searls, Canaan Faulkner, Bill Callahan, William Tyler, Ryan Jewell, Dustin Laurenzi, Fulvio Sigurta & Trevor Nikrant from Ryan Davis's Roadhouse Band. Bracing meditation on romance and the slow shuffle off our mortal coil.
LP $24.95
07/31/2026
***Prison hits the road album, riding two massive jams across altered routes of consciousness a la the allegorical and literal heavy traffic of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, visible from the windows of the studio in which Big Rigs on the BQE was recorded! The requisite Prison gear, guitars, bass and drums plus synth & FX, coughs out exhaust flavored with Groundhogs / Velvets / Hampton’s / Pink Fairies / Magic Band / Good Rats / Can. An improvised rock and roll tapestry, gas ‘n guitar pedal on down to the metal.
LP $26.45
07/31/2026
***A two-headed, four-handed groove-and-space based understanding/alignment of purpose is written in the BCMC DNA. Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay’s guitar and keyboard duo make unbridled electro-ecstatic, intuitive assembly of deep and wide trans-hemispheric sounds. From the frontiers, judicious minimalist song flows.
LP $27.25
06/26/2026
MC $12.00
06/26/2026
***Totality! Automaginary! The in-studio convergence of Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: two albums made over a decade of time, brought ye now together on CD. Congenial and organic, individual and ensemble inclinations incline in crafting new rhythm ‘n gravity pieces. Invisible force meets ancient object: unique passages in time by two ensembles in shared & separate forever arcs.
2XCD $19.35
06/26/2026
***Guitarist/composer Cole Berliner’s (writing, arranging and playing highlights an album of rich-grained, acoustic, west coast parlor music and modern electro-acoustic instrumentals in the challenger tradition of Bert Jansch’s Avocet, Marc Ribot’s Saints and Jim O’Rourke’s Bad Timing. Cole’s ambient chamber folk gets into the spirit as it evolves, a growth continuing into speakers, ears and minds wherever it is played. Cole's been the driving force in the Drag City bands Kamikaze Palm Tree and Sharpie Smile, and has done work as a sideman with artists ranging from White Fence to Kimbra to Zendaya.
LP $24.95
06/05/2026
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! What’s new for the first time in over a decade? Squirrel Bait's self-titled 12” EP and Skag Heaven in the black. In ’85-’87, their screamin’ teenage psycho dilemmas stood way out in the emerging field of metal damaged hardcore punk. “Kid Dynamite” would ring in your head like a #1 single that had just unseated “Sun God” from the vaunted top spot. Every week. Anthems for the freaks!It happened fast. After a couple of records, guitarists David Grubbs and Brian McMahan split for Bastro and Slint (and Gastr del Sol and The For Carnation, respectively) With Grubbs went bassist Clark Johnson, original Bait batterie mate Britt Walford joined McMahan in Slint. Leaving only the stuff of legend: records eternally exploding with youthful feels through all the endless winters and summers of hearts and minds.Repressed, Squirrel Bait can now continue to dialogue with the young in the creation of new useful and unforgettable experiences. For the children of tomor- row as well as your own damn selves, get copies now.
LP $24.95
05/08/2026
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! What’s new for the first time in over a decade? Squirrel Bait's self-titled 12” EP and Skag Heaven in the black. In ’85-’87, their screamin’ teenage psycho dilemmas stood way out in the emerging field of metal damaged hardcore punk. “Kid Dynamite” would ring in your head like a #1 single that had just unseated “Sun God” from the vaunted top spot. Every week. Anthems for the freaks!It happened fast. After a couple of records, guitarists David Grubbs and Brian McMahan split for Bastro and Slint (and Gastr del Sol and The For Carnation, respectively) With Grubbs went bassist Clark Johnson, original Bait batterie mate Britt Walford joined McMahan in Slint. Leaving only the stuff of legend: records eternally exploding with youthful feels through all the endless winters and summers of hearts and minds.Repressed, Squirrel Bait can now continue to dialogue with the young in the creation of new useful and unforgettable experiences. For the children of tomor- row as well as your own damn selves, get copies now.
LP $21.95
05/08/2026
***Orange is an unstill life, a bowlful of new White Fence concepts for guitar band, grown larger through thoughts, feelings/SONGS. Rock ‘n balladry play with genre in uncrowded space. Orange is KILLER POP thru clean lines of power, outlined with an emphatic/unalterable (minimalist) frame. Dark magik at its most bright! A trance-like chronology of consciousness/SONGS captained by producer Ty Segall in opalescent diamond tightness and ice fidelity.
LP $25.50
04/24/2026
***Tommy Peltier's Echo Park, compiled of unheard tapes from the early/mid 1970s, brings us into contact with a long-extinct creature—equal parts slinky hipster, universal soldier of the heart and snuggly loverman—he light-rockin’ tinseltown troubadour, the likes of which hasn’t been served around Hollywood since 1979! Tommy’s somewhere in the tuneful tradition of Rupert Holmes, Stephen Bishop, Andrew Gold, David Batteau and of course, Captain Fantastic and the Thin White Duke. His soulful songs and high-pitched vocals (he was once called “Tom Rapp on helium”) are paired with the requisite chopsy, jazz-enriched LA players, entrancing the ear with grooves and performances both tasty and sweet. Mixed and mastered with great zest by Jim O’Rourke (he brought new life to recordings of a similar vintage for Judee Sill’s posthumous Dreams Come True back in 2005), Echo Park is an encompassing trip through a whole other time and place.
LP $27.95
03/27/2026
***Joshua Abrams’ piece for two violas, harmonium and electronics – written in dialogue with Lisa Alvarado’s 2023 REDCAT exhibition – sonically considers her matrix of geographic, geologic and personal histories. On its own, the LP ensures that the exhibit’s expansive ambiance persists, via Alvarado’s graphics and the music’s mesmerizing stream of subtle sonics and polarities, spiraling in and out of change and recurrence on multiple planes.
LP $27.95
03/27/2026
***My Days of 58 is the eighth Bill Callahan album, his first since 2022. The twelve tunes here open uncanny depths of expression as Bill continues to blaze one of the most original songwriting-and-performance trails out there. With My Days of 58, he applies the living, breathing energies of his live shows to the studio process, sharpening his slice-of-life portraiture to cut deeper than ever before.The core musicians featured on My Days of 58 is the group that toured for 2022’s REALITY: guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi and drummer Jim White, whose synergy was evident in 2024’s live Resuscitate!. This showed Bill, as he puts it, “that they could handle anything I threw at them,” adding: “Improv/unpredictability/the unknown is the thing that keeps me motivated to keep making music. It’s all about listening to yourself and others. A lot of the best parts of a recording are the mistakes — making them into strengths, using them as springboards into something human.”With this in mind, Bill prepared the songs with each player separately. Taking a note from songwriter, fan and friend Jerry DeCicca, he recorded the basic tracks for all but one song in a duo with Jim White. Meanwhile, he rehearsed with Matt, guitar to guitar, while asking Dustin to make horn charts for a few songs.Features guest appearances from Richard Bowden on fiddle, pianist Pat Thrasher, bassist Chris Vreeland, trombonist Mike St. Clair, and pedal steel player Bill McCullough.
CD $14.75
02/27/2026
2XLP $31.75
02/27/2026
MC $13.50
02/27/2026
***A reissue of Circle X’s first full-length album. Prehistory was recorded in 1981 and released in 1983 by Index Records, making them, strangely enough, labelmates with Wall of Voodoo. Circle X were formed in 1978 from the remnants of NO FUN and the I-HOLES, Louisville, Kentucky’s first two punk bands. Circle X got the hell out of Dodge quickly enough, settling upon New York, then Dijon, France, and then back to New York again. Prehistory is a tire-burning left turn from the band's earlier EP. The pendulum arc of TONY PINOTTI’s vocals still contain throat-shredding howls, but expands to contain croons, moans, speech. BRUCE WITSIEPE’s lacerating guitar is dumped into a dubbish aquarium of reverb, and RIK and DAVE LETENDRE worry obsessive polyrhythms nearly to death.The music of these Louisville-NYC art-punk-rockers continues to exist bafflingly outside of time—so when better than 42 years after initial release to reissue their album debut on vinyl? New listeners will find, in addition to the roiling compulsion of its odd, dance-damaged clockwork and synthesis of feral and aestheticized values, a refined understanding of the width and breadth of “post-punk” music, from any era, known or unknown.
LP $24.95
02/27/2026
***Refracting beatifically through realities and mirages flickering along his aural parade route, Animal Collective’s Geologist rides the high country on a hurdy gurdy of many colors. Via the mystery science of musical engagement, we take his sonic kaleidoscope of encounters into our own experience as we listen. That’s the beauty of Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?, the debut solo transmission of the heart and soul and life and times of Geologist.
2XLP $35.25
01/30/2026
***For his third new album release for Drag City, Tashi Dorji turns to the electric guitar. After the furious acoustic improvisations that drove the previous two—Stateless and we will be wherever the fires are lit—it’s easy to imagine an album of his electric guitar improvisations as an encompassingly incendiary essay. Especially when titled low clouds hang, this land is on fire. After all, this is a man capable of tearing up the place with the tactile musical violence of Bill Orcutt and Derek Bailey! And yet, this knowledge serves to set up a greater shock: the album’s disarmingly gentle musical drift.When asked why he turned the knob down from 11 for this album, Tashi says simply, “To find the silence.” As ever with Tashi, this is a political statement. Even the search for silence takes intention and happens for a reason. In this time of such institutional inhumanity, what is there to feel but exhaustion? When seeing the faces of the deprived, what is there to feel other than hopelessness? In the face of such grief, what words are there to say?So, Tashi got a couple amps, moved from the shed where he’d done his first two DC titles, set up in a room in the family home with high ceilings and dialed in the reverb. Once the sound was in the space, reflecting in a manner that he felt congenial with his mood, he taped it. It’s a striking signal, meditative and melancholy, with a delicacy comparable to the...
LP $27.95
01/30/2026
***Forever’s spirit is high and tight, its sinews rumbling with communal joy as Glyders’ power-trio formation, in it “for life,” grooves deep into their own thing. Shuffling the deck with road-tested jams and a couple immaculate old-school tunes, Forever hits with the energy of a first album—which it kinda is, now that founders Joshua Condon and Eliza Weber have met their true other, the relentless traps-man Joe Seger. Forever starts now!
LP $24.65
11/21/2025
***On Beacon Hill: at twilight we find Anthony Moore, roots winding backwards to the halcyon days of Slapp Happy and the ‘70s progressive art rock scene, at guitar and piano. With the atmospheres and accompaniments of AKA & Friends, he breathes infernal new life into songs from his six decades of multivarious music making. This new delivery system is unto a séance, a communal incantation, twining Anthony’s avant and pop traditions together in a darkly radiant coil of folky chamber music; a rope to lower the listener through cobwebs and murk, unveiling new life beneath Anthony’s mad old lines.It is new life that we will need if we hope to reoccupy this cursed earth.AKA are Anthony Moore, Keith Rodway and Amanda Thompson. A pagan family of sound worshipers hailing from that unholiest of all places: Hastings UK, home of Crowley and Turing. Like their sinister forbears in that infamous tradition, this latest trinity shares a passion for subverting pattern and number, factoring unlikely permutations arising from sea and horizon, greensward, the southerly aspect, and the planisphere as half-world. Their equatorial shore speaks of a planet of water and earth, fire and air. AKA’s humble tools of choice for this endeavor are guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer and vocals.
LP $27.95
11/21/2025
***The endless churning wheel of time revolverates once again, spinnin’ out the latest evolution of timeless rock revival sounds native to Boston’s Major Stars! More Colors of Sound features eight new slabs of hard-hitting post-lysergia, their storied guitar trio buzz-and-squallin’ in service of some sweet lyrical melodies. Writing’s divided, for the 1st time ever, between Wayne Rogers and the team of Tom Leonard & Noell Dorsey. More Colors forever!
LP $24.65
10/24/2025
***For his second solo album, master drummer Jim White travels further into expressionist landscapes of private meditation; his vehicle, an evocative duet of keyboards and drums alongside his debut as a vocalist. Translating his formidable percussive intuitions through this dialogue has given Jim a fresh compositional voice. Inner Day is like a state of nature, evoking peace and tension, rest and disquiet, all aloft on the wind of new discovery.
LP $23.95
10/24/2025
***From out of the dark, the crackle of feed back birdsong signals a return to the land of sound environments exclusive to the music of Rafael Toral. A year and a half after his epochal electric guitar album, Spectral Evolution, Traveling Light finds him sharpening his focus, moving boldly from abstract forms to concrete compositions in the form of a set of jazz standards.Based on Toral’s discography, this may seem an unlikely endeavor, but happily, Traveling Light transpires to be one of the major accomplishments in his long history, expressing these songs on their own terms through the unique listening lens of his music. It’s nearly a century since the innovation that electrified the guitar, almost a century since the era of songs like “Easy Living” and “Body and Soul.” Since then, guitars and songs have been played hundreds of different ways by thousands of diverse individuals. After a century of progress, they probably should sound like something else again! And they do, as Toral sidesteps the traditional logic of how to play a song, moving outside the framework with which one would expect a standard to be treated.
2XLP $35.25
10/24/2025
***Fred Armisen, long known as one of the most curious actor / comedian / musician / producer / author / all-round good guys in the business, likes unusual ways of entertaining people. Like this one: 100 Sound Effects is an album that can be used as a library, an industrial tool for your own entertainment projects, or simply for brain-stimulating deep listening. From basic sounds to more abstract scenarios, 100 Sound Effects is an album like no other!
LP $24.95
10/03/2025
***"Our favorite six-string shaman is waving that axe around again! Sir Richard Bishop wrenches forth fresh damnable truth and beauty from a musical kamikaze run through histories both known and unknown. Turning a gimlet eye to the American Primitive guitar style, Sir Rick applies his own bloodthirsty interpretive methods on a self-described 'excursion into the dark woods,' to locate—and play along with—the Primitive’s moonshine-fed inner savage."
LP $22.45
09/26/2025
CD $14.50
09/26/2025
***Hurtling through the perpetual into this moment is the now and future Bitchin Bajas. An effulgent mass located somewhere beyond land or water, Bitchin Bajas' Inland See is flowing toward you, through the hi-fi, arriving with precision extractions of electroacoustic synthesis, revolving in a post-ambient craft that lifts the listener up powerfully, like you’re floating – in saltwater, or helium—effervescent, effortless, elemental.
LP $24.95
09/26/2025
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Instrumental collaboration between these polymath Chicago-based guitarists falls somewhere between RYLEY WALKER's acclaimed new album, Primrose Green (Dead Oceans), & BILL MACKAY's highly melodic work in DARTS & ARROWS. Songs run the gamut from fingerstyle ballads to psychedelic waltzes & raga-inspired blues. Recorded live during the last two shows of a January 2015 residency at The Whistler.
LP $24.65
09/26/2025
***It’s now 20 years since U.S. MAPLE and Talker were sent to the Drag City office. Their third album took the egretions and abrasions of their early music to a new height of quiet horror, their contribution to the summer of ’99—a hot, trying season, one that won’t soon be forgotten. Out of print on vinyl since 2008. Recorded by MARTIN BISI and produced by MICHAEL GIRA at Bisi Studios. “…one of the most obliquely beautiful releases... evasive, creepy, engrossing, and lovely... No one sounds quite like U.S. Maple, and that’s the greatest compliment you can pay a band these days.”— AV Club, 2002
LP $24.95
09/09/2025
***The third collaborative LP between Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin, and the newest installment in the Ghosted series. The trio returns a little looser and wilder than before. Their ability to lock in and focus on the smallest of details is enhanced here by a sense of increased immediacy. Great news for fans of stimulating variations of tone and mood within a potentially infinite universe of rhythm and sound! The more you listen to Ghosted III, the better your hearing becomes. Or maybe it’s just that you hear more every time you play it.
LP $22.45
08/29/2025
***For this collaborative release, Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke edited and remixed material captured at shows they played during a lovely two week tour through France, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland in April 2023. Pareidolia shapes an ideal collage from the best resonances and relationships from those nights. A dynamic medley of color and shape to pulse through earbuds, speaker cones and the air around you, appealing to your suggestibility, wherever you find it.
LP $22.45
08/29/2025
***With a room fulla fine pickers and a set of Hollywood orchestral cues to kill for, Cory Hanson proclaims I Love People! His 4th solo album drills down (baby) on a dryly parallax worldview, with songs about all those people he loves and all the crazy things they get up to. As ringmaster for a circus show of classic folk and rock tropes, Cory tugs at our heartstrings with expert misdirection, embracing tradition by throwing it out, into the wind.The Players:Cory Hanson: vocals, piano, guitarEvan Backer: bassEvan Burrows: drums, percussionHeather Lockie: violaEmily Elkin: celloErik KM Clark: violinMax Whipple: contrabass on track 5Nicole McCabe: tenor and alto saxAlex Wasily: tromboneRyan Parrish: baritone saxTyler Nuffer: steel on track 11
LP $26.85
07/25/2025
***Calling all parents lost in Kids Book Land! Gabba Gabba We Accept You is a children’s picture book telling the story of a misfit kid who grew up to be a punk rock hero. The challenging times that Jeffrey Ross Hyman endured before becoming Joey Ramone speak to young folks navigating the complexities of growing up, via teachable punk stuff: being your own person with your own compass, embracing uniqueness, etc. Jay Ruttenberg & Lucinda Schreiber light the tale righteously with plain-spoken language, lyrical graphic design and colorful illustrations, finding unexpected depths on every page. 51 page hardcover book.
BK $31.85
07/04/2025
***Sharpie Smile’s debut album has one question for you: is your heart good enough to take The Staircase? Sharpie Smile is Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner. They met in 2015, a pair of musically-adept nonconformist teenagers, forming a songwriting and performance duo. Writing initially for a project called Kamikaze Palm Tree, with Dylan on drums and Cole on guitar, they produced two albums of thorny, earwormy art-rock. While continuing to play shows and write, there was some session work with other acts (Cate Le Bon, A. Savage, Tim Presley’s White Fence). And then a shimmering new direction came into view... For Sharpie Smile, that direction is up. The Staircase is a lush and energizing contemporary pop record, scaling an ambitious gradient of minimal/maximal electronic production and deep feels. It’s a dreamy and ethereal trip through something (you’re not sure what yet), on a radiant melodic raft. Reality is breaking and rebirth is happening, one piece at a time—essential questions deconstructed and pieced together again. Like scanning a new x-ray image of yourself.
LP $28.75
07/04/2025
***A remastered and expanded CD reissue of the Sound Mind Sound Body album from noted Portuguese sound explorer RAFAEL TORAL. In 1987, inspired in part by the massive impact potential of discreet gestures in the working principles of Fripp & Eno, Rafael crafted a unique signal path from his guitar, building pieces that have continued to grow ever since. First released in 1994, Sound Mind Sound Body drifts and drones with glacial majesty; spacious tones moving with deep orchestral resonance, hardly recognizable as guitar much of the time. Now in a new CD master version! Includes bonus material not included on previous versions.
CD $13.50
07/04/2025
***A remastered and expanded CD reissue of the Wave Field album from noted Portuguese sound explorer RAFAEL TORAL. Since 1995 through today and into tomorrow, Rafael Toral’s guitar generated Wave Field continues breaking on our shores, a force of nature in unending evolution, oceanic and alive, deep and spacious. Rock music’s power liquefied into pure sound, metallic at loud volumes, hypnotic even when played quietly. A journey of music without notes, spatial and temporal waves expanding infinitely, with different LP and CD/digital masters still evolving... Includes bonus material not included on previous versions.
CD $14.50
07/04/2025
***BACK IN PRINT!!! The sophomore release from GASTR DEL SOL—JIM O’ROURKE and DAVID GRUBBS. Out of print for over a decade.
12" $18.75
06/20/2025
***Ty Segall's new Possession sees him step away from the heady prog of Three Bells and into lush, melodic rock'n'roll. The sound here is fleshed out with pianos, horns, and strings, and each song (with lyrics co-written by filmmaker Matt Yoka) tells a different story of The American Dream. An undeniable, instant-classic from Ty!
CD $14.50
05/30/2025
LP $24.95
05/30/2025
MC $12.75
05/30/2025
***Faun Fables’ most encompassing collection of “songtelling” to date: a true family album, etched exquisitely and studded with fine-hewed jewels of song. The richly lived-in atmosphere is a sonic world unto itself. Timeless folk music, warmly redolent of traditions passed down in an eternal recurrence that promises renewal—the a joyous counterclockwise movement spread over generation upon generation. This beautiful new record features a few notable covers, such as tracks by the Bee Gees and Yes.
2XLP $36.75
05/30/2025
***Drag City and Yoga Records are delighted to return to the music of Matthew Young. Following Recurring Dreams (1981, reissued 2014) and Traveler's Advisory (1986, reissued 2010), Undercurrents (2025) collects eight oddly dissimilar pieces that somehow fit together perfectly. Ranging from heady synthesizer experiments to earthy dulcimer meditations, Undercurrents is unique enough to be called outsider while still occupying a musical world accessible to fans of many genres.
LP $24.95
05/30/2025