LISTEN TO WAND’S NEW SINGLE ‘PLUM’ TAKEN FROM UPCOMING ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME

Los Angeles-based Wand announce the release of their new album Plum, out Friday 22nd September 2017 via Drag City Records. As well as lead single, ‘Plum’, and its accompanying video, and a tour that embarks on the heels of the album’s release. Plum is Wand’s fourth LP since the band formed in late 2013, but their first new album since 2015. Describing their […]
Ty Segall has made whole records that wrestle with realities – fighting against some, pulling mightily to bring others into being. His new self-titled record- the next record after Emotional Mugger, Manipulator, Sleeper, Twins, Goodbye Bread, Melted, Lemons and the first self-titled album that started it up in the now-distant year of 2008 – is a clean flow, a wash of transparency falling into a […]

TY SEGALL SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM

NEWS: BLACK BANANAS VIDEO FROM THE NEW ALBUM

Want a new drug? From the band that once brought you “Killer Weed,”now shoote a primse snoutful of powder! “Powder8 Eeeeeeeeight,” to be precise; an over-the-edge jamthem from the new Black Bananas long player, the epic Electric Brick Wall! It’s quite possible this black slabbath of an album is already on display at your local […]
Sticking his hand deeper into the machines all around him, Ty is reaching ever further to the outer limits of inner space orbited throughout Twins and Sleeper. And now more than ever, the chunks of the world that came before are like asteroids formed in his image, picking up speed. Still fighting the power with […]

NEWS: TY SEGALL NEW ALBUM TEASER VIDEO ‘MANIPULATOR’

NEWS: TY SEGALL – LISTEN TO THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE FORTHCOMING NEW ALBUM

Like an echo from a desperate, war-torn future, Ty Segall’s latest cry of love crashes the party and detonates without warning on the drink-soaked dance floor. Female voices ricochet, deadpanning from ear to ear. Fuzzy thunders reels on high, thudding slam into your life-chest and rolling out the door. Like a quicksilver wire at the […]
How does time work anyway? Did you know that 2008 is as much yesterday as yesterday is? 2008, that was when it began – a sweat young thing boiling up out of the mythical swamps of ooze and grooves. Ty Segall was just getting started, his need to rock was ordering itself into existence. Now […]

NEWS: TY SEGALL – NEW ALBUM ‘TWINS’ + UK LIVE DATES

Album Review: Laetitia Sadlier – Silencio

Laetitia Sadlier, erstwhile singer with 90s influential experimental krautrock pop band Stereolab and main member of Stereolab side project Monade, follows up her debut solo album, The Trip, with her second album for Drag City, Silencio. On first listen, Silencio immediately comes across as a more fleshed out sound with more nuanced textures than The […]
If you had asked me a week ago my thoughts on Gaelic folk music, I would have to be honest and say that it isn’t exactly my cup of tea. But this album is something a little different; Urstan is one of those collaborations that makes so much sense that you have to wonder why […]

ALBUM: ALASDAIR ROBERTS AND MAIRI MORRISON – URSTAN