***Songwriting sensation DAVID PAJO returns with his ongoing "M", and takes you back to the glorious '90s with a collection of material recorded under the AERIAL M, M, and PAPA M monikers. Includes the debut M single "Safeless/Napoleon," the song "Vol De Nuit" from a split single, the 1997 and '98 Aerial M singles "M Is..." and "October," Papa M's 1999 tour single, 2000's Christmas card track "Turn Turn Turn," the unreleased "Christmas 1997," and another fifteen minutes or so of timeless M action. Mmmm, M.
CD $13.75
03/02/2004
2XLP $17.25
03/02/2004
***The sophomore album from these Washington, DC rock'n'roll radicals comprised of IAN SVENONIUS (NATION OF ULYSSES, MAKE-UP, SCENE CREAMERS), MICHELLE MAE (MAKE-UP, FRUMPIES, SCENE CREAMERS), and ALEX MINOFF (SIX FINGER SATELLITE, GOLDEN, SCENE CREAMERS). Eleven liberating tracks of get-down, soul-fired, sexed-up rocking, including the single "AK-47." Features guest appearances from fellow travelers AZITA (piano) and JJ ROX (backing vocals).
CD $13.75
02/03/2004
***DAVID PAJO returns with his ongoing "M" recordings (AERIAL M, M, PAPA M, mmmm M). Eleven tracks that fall somewhere in the blue guitar-based, dreamy rock music thing, but also feature things like found sounds, intriguing instrumental passages and even vocals just to add to the ongoing mystery (misery?) of the performances. Simply lovely.
CD $13.75
01/01/2004
2XLP $20.50
11/02/2004
***The fourth album from understated British sound painters MOVIETONE, and the band's third on the esteemed Drag City imprint. Eleven hallucinogenic tracks of jazzy pop songcraft inspired by the likes of Nina Simone, Jefferson Airplane, The Carter Family, The Band, Sandy Denny, and the field recordings of producer Alan Lomax. Recorded in the studio with outside trips to a warehouse, a church, and a cliff path above a gorge to add certain atmospheric qualities.
CD $13.75
11/11/2003
***The second album from New York City's engaging SUNTANAMA. An eleven-track melange of blues, folk, and rock sounds, delivered with the band's unique skew and shit-kickin'-era rock vibration. Features members of the NO NECK BLUES BAND, so you know it's blown wide. Freak flags fly highest.
LP $19.50
06/24/2003
CD $13.75
06/24/2003
***The third album from ROYAL TRUX guitarist NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY, and his most comprehensive album yet. Joined by the HOWLING HEX, Hagerty delivers a balanced mix of studio-recorded rock, blues, folk and jazz sounds, plus two cuts recorded on concert stages in San Francisco and Chicago. Twenty-one tracks in all.
CD $13.75
05/27/2003
2XLP $23.50
05/27/2003
***The long-awaited debut album from the ongoing solo project of LAETITIA SADIER of STEREOLAB. Twelve gorgeous tracks of sophisticated pop, folk and moodcraft featuring added help from ROSIE and MATT of PRAM. Includes three extremely rare, out-of-print split singles tracks.
CD $13.75
04/22/2003
***BACK IN PRINT!!! The voice of a lost generation, BILL CALLAHAN returns with a new album that lands on the easy-listening side of the avant fence. Nine melody-filled songs with soft steel guitars, sweet female harmonies, sharp observations, and that heart-warming intimacy that has become BILL's trademark.
LP $24.25
03/25/2003
CD $13.75
03/25/2003
***The debut album from this new supergroup comprised of WILCO's JEFF TWEEDY and GLENN KOTCHE, along with JIM O'ROURKE (now of SONIC YOUTH). A six-track, forty-minute blend of all kinds of music for all kinds of people, expertly crafted into some of the hottest pop sounds to hit the streets in years.
CD $13.75
02/04/2003
LP $25.75
09/15/2022
***The third full-length album under the BONNIE PRINCE BILLY moniker from roots-absorbed singer/songwriter WILL OLDHAM (PALACE). Ten deeply introspective songs of self-love, emotional struggle, and complex relationships, featuring backing from friends TONY CROW, WILLIAM TYLER, MATT SWANSON, MARTY SLAYTON, and brother PAUL OLDHAM.
LP $21.50
02/04/2003
CD $13.75
02/04/2003
LP $21.50
09/17/2002
CD $13.75
09/17/2002
***The follow-up to 2000's The Spectrum Between album from GASTR DEL SOL member and Blue Chopsticks label chief, DAVID GRUBBS. Ten songs that rock harder than any of his previous efforts, featuring backing from JOHN McENTIRE, MATMOS, NOEL AKCHOTE, DAN BROWN, and NICOLAS VERNES, and lyrical collaborations from RICK MOODY, author of The Ice Storm and Demonology.
CD $13.75
06/04/2002
***The fifth album from ETHAN BUCKLER's ever-funky pop'n'rock oddballers KING KONG. Eight tracks of fun-loving and sci-fi-flowing party rock dance music produced with the utmost care by NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY. Includes guest horn work by ROB MAZUREK and MATT BAUDER.
CD $13.75
05/07/2002
***Longtime gone-rock revivalist BROTHER JT channels into a higher authority, and delivers a new album of soulfully stoned folk worship. Eight magical tracks of vocal and acoustic wonder, adorned with touches of saxophone, sitar, and synth. Produced by NEIL MICHAEL HAGGERTY, so you know the sacrament's righteous.
CD $13.75
03/19/2002
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Note new price. Avant-rock's prolific chieftain, Jimbo O, returns with another diamond from the rough. Eleven shiney bits of blackened pop mastery...
LP $24.25
11/27/2001
***BACK IN STOCK!!!
LP $24.25
10/27/2001
CD $13.75
10/27/2001
LP $19.75
07/24/2001
CD $13.75
07/24/2001
***STEREOLAB bassist SIMON JOHNS strikes a solo pose for this not-to-sweet but catchy-as-fuck record but fear not ye who follow in devoted worship of "The Lab", Simon's keeping his night-job.
CD $11.25
05/01/2001
***The debut solo recording from ROYAL TRUX string-slinger and one-time PUSSY GALORE shit-stirrer NEIL HAGERTY comes reeling out of the gates with an ex-something new take on rock'n'roll's finest traditions. Eleven compulsive new songs that burn where the fires aren't yet lit and fall where the net's not been set, blending driving rhythms with unchecked guitar solos, righteous riffs, and Neil's beautifully throttled, signature wail of a voice. It's pop, it's soul, it's rock, it's roll—all together and none-of-the-above.
CD $13.75
03/27/2001
***BACK IN STOCK! A short comic film about a teenage girl's summertime lust, featuring fantasizing, bubble gum, and bicycle riding—soft-core porn, in other words. Directed by DIANNE BELLINO and shot on location in sunny oceanside Rhode Island, Slitch stars WILL OLDHAM as a mentally unbalanced surfer, blending in seamlessly with a cast of lovely local ladies. DVD+CD package includes the film with a remastered digital soundtrack, animation, Dianne's "Come In" video made for PALACE in 1993, as well as the eight-track Slitch Music soundtrack performed by the CONTINENTAL OP—BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY and PAPA M.
DVD+CD $15.00
01/08/2001
***The latest in butt-bumping and head-scratching sonic freaky love from the songwriting partnership of dimmer twins NEIL & JENNIFER. Five tracks of aggressive psych-funk jamming, jungle-themed tribal blues riffing, and delirious smashing rock. Produced by ADAM & EVE to achieve the ultimate in dirt.
CD $11.25
01/08/2001
12" $13.75
05/20/2014
***The debut release from this Brooklyn-based new folk trio consisting of MIRA BILLOTTE (QUIX*O*TIC), MIGGY LITTLETON, and ANDY MACLEOD (CALIFORNIA SPEEDWAY), and a teaser EP to an upcoming full-length album. A six track blend of magic-minded folk and roots sounds inspired by Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Karen Dalton, Love, The Great Society, Sun Ra, Eric Satie, The Fugs, Zombies, and all good music of the world
CD $11.25
01/08/2001
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Chicago’s music scene in the mid-'90s suffered through unwanted ITstatus, owing in part to hype garnered by Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, Smashing Pumpkins and others of their vile ilk. Meanwhile, the underground was a field thick with soon-to-be-typecast post-rockers, plus the vets of T&G’s '80s era, jazzers and other types of improv/freakout weirdos. Making records in town thus became a fun pursuit for Drag City, as any number of musicians might be perceived as being on-call to do a session for Smog, Edith Frost, Jim O’Rourke and/or whoever else! “All Most Heaven” attempted Motown-esque assembly-line record making: Will Oldham’s fetchingly odd demos were elaborately arranged by O’Rourke, who co-produced the basic tracks with Rian Murphy and a local wrecking crew, with a view to draw even more stars in to finish the project. When done, it was a most Left Banke-ish of Drag City records, without even a harpsichord in sight! The working title, “Murphy Does Oldham,” implied that this Murphy fellow would produce, which he did exclusively, with no vocal or instrumental parts contributed by the would-be Spector Jr. This didn’t keep him from hamming it up on the cover though! Features guest musicianship from the usual supsects JIM O'ROURKE, BILL CALLAHAN (SMOG), LAETICIA SADIER (STEREOLAB), RICK RIZZO (ELEVENTH DREAM DAY), ARCHER PREWITT, EDITH FROST, and DAVID GRUBBS.
CD $11.25
09/13/2000
12" $13.75
09/16/2016
***BILL CALLAHAN returns with a new single from his recently released Dongs of Sevotion album, and reminds the world why it just can't get enough SMOG. The title track, backed with a bonus eight songs from his long-out-of-print, instrumental favorite, Cow EP originally released on cassette in 1989.
CD $11.25
08/01/2000
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Adult Contemporary singer-songwriter BILL CALLAHAN returns with his latest album of love-taking, heart-breaking and dream-making popterfuge. Ten songs that take on and lap up just about every possible pop style be it an anthemic power ballad, a saucy tango, or a gentle waltz, all with his unique voice and personal lyrical outlook.
CD $13.75
04/11/2004
2XLP $22.95
04/11/2000
LP $17.75
07/26/1999
CD $13.75
10/05/1999
***A gorgeous solo outing from DIRTY THREE/TREN BROS. mastermind MICK TURNER. Fifteen tracks of smooth and worldly, primarily instrumental, non-rock song goodness from a man who knows his way around the scales. Features guest violin work from JESSICA BILLEY.
CD $13.75
10/05/1999
LP $19.75
04/06/1999
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Another feather in the headdress of avant-rock's leading prolific chieftain Jimbo O, as he takes a cue from some of the many artists he's produced lately (SMOG, STEPHEN PRINA, FAUST, FAHEY, et al), and tries his hand at experimental pop music. Of course it's not like any other pop band you've heard before—that wouldn't be Jim's style, but it does have all the required catchy hooks, pleasant melodies and good-time sounds you demand from your down-time musical diversions. Includes a Bacharach cover that finally puts him on par with folks on the Tzadik label and Elvis Costello.
LP $25.85
03/16/1999
CD $13.75
03/16/1999
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Another feather in the headdress of avant-rock's leading prolific chieftain Jimbo O, as he takes a cue from some of the many artists he's produced lately (SMOG, STEPHEN PRINA, FAUST, FAHEY, et al), and tries his hand at experimental pop music. Of course it's not like any other pop band you've heard before—that wouldn't be Jim's style, but it does have all the required catchy hooks, pleasant melodies and good-time sounds you demand from your down-time musical diversions. Includes a Bacharach cover that finally puts him on par with folks on the Tzadik label and Elvis Costello.
LP $25.85
03/16/1999
Aerial M brings their "Wedding Song" to the re-mix party and delivers it into the able hands of BUNDY K. BROWN, TIED & TICKLED TRIO, FLACCO, and DJ YOUR FOOD, with great hopes of selling some more records. The result: four songs, and hundreds of units moved. Another successful outing for all involved.
CD $13.75
02/02/1999
***David Grubbs steps from the twisted pile of broken guitar strings that was GASTR DEL SOL and ventures out with his first solo pop LP following his highly successful Banana Cabbage... instrumental album. Colorful and inventive arrangements in the style of masters like Van Dyke Parks, Harry Nilsson, Tim Buckley, etc., with group help from folks like John McEntire, Josh Abrams, Jeb Bishop, Tony Conrad and others.
LP $17.75
09/28/1998
CD $13.75
09/28/1998
CD $12.50
09/02/1998
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Gastr Del Sol combine country blues, avant garde, classical compostion, jazz, and pop into a blend that is utterly unique (and popular) in the marketplace today. Gastr Del Sol is the combined musical and compositional resource of Jim O'Rourke and David Grubbs. Camoufleur features the long awaited collaboration between O'Rourke, Grubbs, and Oval's Markus Popp. There is no doubt of their musical ability or desirability anywhere on Earth.
LP $21.50
02/17/1998
CD $13.75
02/17/2004
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 9.1 rating from Pitchfork.
LP $24.25
09/15/1997
CD $13.75
09/15/1997
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Note new price. The original cream of the singles crop from the Palace of Brothers, Songs and Music—covering the terrain from “Ohio River Boat Song” to “West Palm Beach,” and adding alternate takes of “Riding” and “Trudy Dies,” a live version of Hope’s “Untitled,” and this album’s title track, which doesn’t appear in any version anywhere else. Fifteen songs all-in, most of which have been out of print on 7" since the mid-90s, and all out of circulation on this double-vinyl edition since the mid-aughts.
CD $13.75
09/03/1997
2XLP $23.35
04/24/2012
