Drag City

whoa

hey, nice

this is rad

oh snap

Finally! Thank you Drag City

only one track to stream per album though so people will still complain about this

that's fine. it's nice to be able to explore all DC artists - so many that i've heard about but never looked into - in one place that is easily browsable and accessible. i know it's all on youtube anyway and i can deal w/ that but this is cool

also i really like the artist thumbnails. i want to chill in meg baird's living room and listen to recorsd

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/06/08/meg-baird_wide-4c215cf31a3b6462bf428b21cbb9115d781a604d.jpg

nice

bandcamp is thriving btw https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/01/24/everything-is-terrific-the-bandcamp-2016-year-in-review/

only one track to stream per album though so people will still complain about this

― na (NA), Friday, January 27, 2017 10:23 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seems like the perfect arrangement

lol those albums in that pic are so meticulously chosen <3

and yeah one track per album and $9 for FLAC is fine with me

weird that the Half Japanese reissues aren't there

great news!

bandcamp is thriving btw https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/01/24/everything-is-terrific-the-bandcamp-2016-year-in-review/

― lag∞n, Friday, January 27, 2017 4:01 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just want to note that the second comment underneath this was left by someone from the band Primitive Radio Gods

that is the standard press pic for meg baird afaik
i've seen it a bunch of times

Full catalog is now on Bandcamp: https://dragcity.bandcamp.com/

OMG

only one track to stream per album though

oh

Re: Half Japanese reissues—I'm guessing they aren't on there due to the recent reissues on Fire.

Re: Half Japanese reissues—I'm guessing they aren't on there due to the recent reissues on Fire.

(Inadvertent double post, obvs.)

oh hmm I did not realize that Fire had reissued the 1981-85 material! thanks.

Hey, it's a start, welcome to the 21st century Drag City

Meanwhile

1994! A great year for Drag City releases is now is available at your fingertips on @AppleMusic ! pic.twitter.com/veJV5mnVFl

— Drag City (@dragcityrecords) June 23, 2017

The Royal Trux and Palace stuff doesn't seem to be available (for me anyway)

seems like most of their catalog is up on spotify. notable exceptions from a brief search include jim o'rourke, joanna newsom, will oldham, red apple falls

Disappointed to hear that one of the last holdouts finally gave in. Streaming music is for lames

otm

I don't see any

April Fools(?)

Had to go through the This is: Drag City playlist

oh man, this is fantastic

Btw – DC will always be stone classic, but this label and I sure have grown apart over the past decade or so.

(I also met Rian M. in person, which kinda shattered the illusion; but that’s no one’s fault...)

I can finally listen to Silver Jews again!

You know their records and CDs have been available all along, right?

I don't own a record or CD player and all the ones I've bought off iTunes are on an external hardrive in the back of a closet somewhere.

You can even buy them used. That way the artist gets nothing!

Especially if they're promo cds, because you can actually <i>take</i> the artist's money that way.

I've actually been buying records of artists that I listen to a lot after I started streaming music, just so they get some money and because 10 years of buying mp3s was unsatisfying in a way. So I should probably spring for record equipment because Im starting to amass a collection but it would cost a lot to get good gear and I would have to carve out space to set it up. But I did buy all the SJ albums during the iTunes years, although to my understanding artists werent getting paid well from that arrangement either

lol Jim O still holding out

I don't see Newsome or Callahan but jamming some Silver Jews now - yesssssss!!

The game may be rigged and all streaming services should be overthrown but until we get there I'm happy that these great artists will have a better chance at exposure and that I can easily put friends onto their music

smog/callahan

aw man, so good - thanks!

Listening to Papa M's Live from a Shark Cage right now -- yay!

So this is what those cryptic, passive-aggressive Instagram posts were about...

weird. I can see the page for smog/callahan from the links above but it doesn't show up in searches. can't see silver jews, papa M, etc

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ePunOqQbOYoQwd1298g3Z?si=7KMKvouVS0KP4KpR-but2g

seems the indexing isn't up to speed

NP: The High Llamas - Talahomi Way

A mini modern masterpiece. :)

Listening to Papa M's Live from a Shark Cage right now -- yay!

― jaymc, Sunday, April 1, 2018 11:54 PM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I actually got excited chills realizing this is available now. And I actually still have my CD of it, so I don't know why I don't just listen to it on CD, but I never listen to CDs.

Perhaps now is a good time for a renewed S/D for this label. I listened to tons of this stuff in the 90s (Palace, Gastr del Sol, Aerial/Papa M, and others from that period). In the last 15 years or so I've probably only listened to some of the bigger artists. As I scan through the artists on the label now, there's a bunch I don't know.

the whole chicago circuit is worth looking into- ryley walker/bill mackkay, bitchin bajas, circuit des yeux, they all kinda run in the same circles