Drag City Indierock | Alternative 113 Artikel

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A long era of dull ringing and nothing else in our ears is over. Once again, winds of warm guitar and humid thunderheads of bass and toms rumble all around. With Valdez, Birds of Maya are back in flight. And like the first song title explicitly states, this latest is a soaring blast of riffers, rife with punk rock abandon, sludge, treble, distortion, neck-throttling rock n roll solos, pummeling drums and bass and half-shouted/half-gargled vocals, all of it half on and half off the mic. For the good times as always, these Birds! That's how they've done it: fast and heavy, hard, live and loose, amid accumulating piles of empties, in appropriately informal environments since 2004ish, with their three LPs (on Holy Mountain, Richie and Little Big Chief) ripping us up whenever they drop. With each release, our thirst has increased, but to our horror, we haven't found any fresh feathers from their tree in the new release bins since 2013. Somewhere in Philadelphia, Jason Killinger, Ben Leaphart and Mike Polizze played on - preferably outside (the shows are always extra-good), but wherever, really. Recorded in 2014 at Black Dirt Studios in New York. Yeah: Birds of Maya packed up their shit, drove out of North Philly to a recording studio hundreds of miles away and made an album. Kinda nuts. And then didn't release it until...well, yeah - now! Time is a test that Birds of Maya recordings need to pass before they see the light of day. At the time this was recorded, Birds of Maya were standing on the other side of ten years kicking around town, suddenly far away from the primordial ooze they'd flopped forth from. The streets where all this had happened on were changing, with new money rolling in, but they were the same old Birds, content with their libations and ear-splitting variations on old favorite Stooges chords. The cover art of Valdez is a couple images from those days, glimpses at the old grass roots before they were ripped up by developers to build condos. But nothing ever really goes away, Valdez st...

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Bill Stone

Stone

34,99 €*

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Just when you thought every loner folk genius had been outed/discovered, hyped, and pontificated about, a new/old challenger lurks in the murky depths of time...and Maine. Sure, you have your Skip Spences, Dave Bixbys, Stone Harbours, and Perry Leopolds already, but have you heard the lonesome sound of Bill Stone? Well, don't feel bad or "unkool", hardly anyone has--unless you lived in rural Maine in the early 70s and grabbed his barely-ever seen LP in the day. Titled simply Stone, Bill's mysterious album was pressed in the micro-est of quantities, covering wistful, airy psychedelia on par with the UK's Mark Fry's classic Dreaming of Alice, while still evoking the earthy, evening-hour melancholy of Leonard Cohen or Tom Rapp. Stone was also especially influenced by one Donny P. Leitch, one Robby Zimmerman, and much trad folk, while growing up in his hometown of Old Town, Maine. Stone started out playing in a few small folk ensembles while also moonlighting with occasional solo gigs, finally recording this lone platter in 1969 in a pottery studio (!?) on a 2-track Panasonic tape recorder in Boothbay, Maine (where he says, they competed with a cat in heat). The LP features Tom Blackwell/Bill Stone-guitars, Arthur Webster-bass, Bob Blackwell/Skip Smith-drums, Bill/Beth Waterhouse on vocals. It also seems cover artist Doug Bane went on to become an acclaimed cosmic painter--committing loads of animals, psychedelic scenes, and Native American portraits to canvas, who knew? But we digress--anyhow, seems Stone's solo career slowed down after marriage hit, and he transitioned to playing covers in bars for cash, but after acquiring a masters and doctorate in education, he moved into the teaching walk of life. Bill published books and articles on subjects as diverse as school counseling and chaos theory--but now retired, he's returned to music, even recording a new album of originals and traditional numbers, based on his experiences as a cab driver (another wrinkle in the Stone Saga we must hear more of someda...

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Bill Nace

Through A Room

33,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Drag City)

Bill MacKay

Locust Land

16,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Drag City)

Bill MacKay

Esker

27,99 €*

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Drag City)

YTILAER

16,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2022 | US | Original (Drag City)

YTILAER

19,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Drag City)

YTI⅃AƎЯ

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest

2LP | 2019 | US | Original (Drag City)

40,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Drag City)

Ben Chasny

The Intimate Landscape

28,99 €*

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A new instrumental album of acoustic guitar playing from Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny!KPM Music, the legendary British library music company, extended an offer to Ben to make some songs for their library. The field of library music (music made for hire, for use in placement in films and advertising) is one that's come to public consciousness only relatively recently in the long century of record-making, but the influence of such records has been felt for years in the aesthetics of many diverse artists, including several who've recorded for Drag City. So it's a special thing for Drag City, whose appreciation for Ben's unique artistry has been borne out over a countless variety of releases, to issue this really amazing entry in both the KPM Music tradition and the ever-expanding Ben Chasny/Six Organs of Admittance ouvre.Ben chose the acoustic guitar for these recordings after considering the width and breadth of possible music he could make for the occasion. His approach while playing it was simple - deceptively so: to make music as present and immediate and beautiful as possible. This type of playing requires a deep breath before beginning, as it has to generate from within, as well as at the fingertips.The resulting music is inventive and engaging, both in and out of the astral style of Ben's music and the utilitarian genre of music to which he's contributing. The album's title is a clue to these dual intentions, as is Ben's use of his given name rather than the 6OOA alias he has preferred in his career. These songs manifest lovely themes played on acoustic guitar, recorded with spacious, almost pastoral ambiance; richly evocative pieces that can fill the multiple purposes of any sound library around the world.Two decades-plus into his life in music, Ben's got the craft and ability to make music that can be encompassingly heard as intimate AND universal.Going for melody, Ben employs a relaxed technical facility, supported by a few guitar overdubs, plus several well-placed synths and a...

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Bcmc

Foreign Smokes

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | US | Original (Drag City)

Arnold Dreyblatt

Nodal Excitation

29,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Drag City)

Anthony Moore

Out

32,99 €*