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IN THE SEASON OF THE SINGLE, TY SEGALL DELIVERS "ALTA"!

posted September 26th, 2017

It's a new day in the world of Ty Segall, and every truly new day means another truly great song! Captured in gleaming widescreen, "Alta" is a hometown jam that Ty (with his Freedom Band) has been playing at shows all over the place this year. It's a nature jam as well - basically a "fuck-the-last-500-years" jam - which shows just how far back Ty's willing to go to get really back to nature. It's a love song to the natural state of hometown grounds... (read more)

Artists in this story: Ty Segall

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TRAVEL THE LONESOME ROAD WITH BILL MACKAY & RYLEY WALKER

posted September 26th, 2017

Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker have a sonic connection that some duos only dream of. After many inspired improvisational sets at various Chicago stages, watering holes, and institutions, Walker-MacKay have forged an iron weave of (mostly!) guitar tapestry, culminating in the forthcoming SpiderBeetleBee! SpiderBeetleBee continues fluidly down the path of their initial psych-folkblues-raga tandem, brewing further explorations in mixed-and-matched idioms, turning composed melodies inside-out via improvisation, and finding in the blend a pasture between Appalachia and the Highlands.

The video for "Lonesome... (read more)

Artists in this story: Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker

THE DRAG CITY NEWSLETTER! SEPTEMBER 2017

posted September 22nd, 2017

 

NEW DAWN FADING

Welcome back to Drag City! And yeah, don't pay attention to the clock on the wall. Face it, if you're still thinking about 2017, you're WAY behind! We wrapped our plans for 2018 already, with the smoke from our vision lodge wisping away, like all the dreams of yesteryear. And YES - sure, we're ready to let yesterday die - what did it ever do for us lately? Other than provide us with a footpath to... (read more)

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HURRICANE RELIEVING DRAG CITY MAKES LANDFILL AT CROPPED OUT!

posted September 21st, 2017

Summer is giving back, Indian-style! Did it ever really try to leave? Perhaps we'll hang onto it through winter this year, as fires and earthquakes and hurricanes provide cold truths we cannot ignore. In the short term, here's another element you shouldn't ignore (and another with high winds): the convergence of many a Drag City band at the finest festival the middle USA has ever seen, Cropped Out Festival in Louisville, KY! This year's line up is fine as silk, and deep like wool -... (read more)

Artists in this story: Royal Trux, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Neil Hamburger, Magik Markers, Circle X, Mike Donovan, Axis: Sova