Drag City

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

Dope Body is sick

natural information society/ka and meg baird also

global otm -- it is very tight crew + natural info society is sooooooo goooooood
if alasdair roberts is in there, i recommend him a lot

imo it would be characteristically drag city to give this to spotify people for only a short period of time -- maybe 6 month contract -- and then not renew their contract.

definitely search the six organs / rangda / richard bishop universe

oh yeah
dang i forgot about them
RANGDA

people are going to be like omg why did i not...oh yeah

I am going to check the hell out of this Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh album!

^^ both of those are great

Is Matt Sweeney + Bonnie Prince Billy - Superwolf up? (not seeing it via search) That used to be a big favourite of mine.

yeah that one might be my favorite oldham

supposedly some of his palace (music) stuff is up but i couldn't find any

the palace bros 7"s are up which if you ever wanted to hear what "Trudy Dies" would sound like with mellotron and a left-field "out" guitar solo, well... here's your chance!

The very first Palace Brothers album is there, but that's the only full-length.

the palace bros 7"s are up which if you ever wanted to hear what "Trudy Dies" would sound like with mellotron and a left-field "out" guitar solo, well... here's your chance!

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, April 2, 2018 10:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the original vers tbf, think that was the first thing i ever bought by them

They got in right before the IPO!

So, uh, I'm guessing these guys are about to give up on the CD format completely. It's been tapering as an option on their releases for the past couple years, but now it seems like a CD release is the exception rather than the rule. The New Bums album is vinyl only and the just announced Peacers album is vinyl and cassette only. Not surprised, I guess, just bummed. Weird that cassettes must be hitting higher sales numbers for them though.