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	Smallmouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The earliest Drag City records have a more-or-less identifiable sound: the messed-up, art-steeped guitar noise of Pavement and Royal Trux and the lesser bands of the period (Mantis, Burnout, Vocokesh).
		The culmination of that period was the Drag City Revue that took place at Tramps in New York on September 4, 1997.
		Drag City's best-selling album, a compilation of the raw, brainy, deliriously confident early EPs on which Pavement established the sonic vocabulary of '90s indie rock.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/00/07/13/SMALLMOUTH.html (1451 words)

	A Drag City Supersession - Tramps, Traitors & Little Devils (Drag City)
		Drag City was in desperate need of a party band.
		A Drag City Supersession is the solution to all of Drag City's party planning problems.
		Some interesting moments arise due to the collaborative nature of the recording, but the music and lyrics are mostly sub par.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2001/dragcity.shtml (709 words)

	KORK
		This record showed Roberts drinking more deeply than ever before of the dark and ancient well of British song tradition, but this time revealing his consummate intuitiveness and respect for it in creating a record of twelve original songs which at once embody, yet in their own humble way transcend, that tradition.
		Unlike the solo record The Crook of My Arm, however, No Earthly Man features a wide variety of players, and, despite the fact that every song is from a traditional source, it is perhaps Roberts’ most radical record yet.
		Roberts and his companions have managed to make a record about Death which is not the wailing, wallowing, self-pitying ordeal one might expect from such a thing in our present age — in fact it’s celebratory, at times positively joyous.
	www.korkagency.com /na/html/roster/ala.html (690 words)

	Drag City Records feature
		Drag City was formed in 1989 by Dan and Dan, the Drag City, er, men.
		It's a busy winter in front of us here at Drag City, with a dozen small projects, a few reissues, and of course, the occasional new discovery.
		You released a few records by the Palace Brothers on Drag City.
	www.vacant.org.uk /amv/dragcity.html (507 words)

	Review of Red Hash by Gary Higgins > eleven elephants > new indie, alternative and modern rock reviews daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As a young man, Higgins recorded what was to become one of the more coveted and admired psychedelic folk albums in American music history, which isn’t to say that anyone actually owned it.
		As it happens, the entire recording process was haunted by the ghost of Higgins’ future — he was to serve time for possession of marijuana, or hash, as it were.
		Chasny’s recording also held a call to action: he beseeched his fans to help in his quest to find the long lost Higgins and let him know that he had been dearly missed.
	www.elevenelephants.com /review/305 (506 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes Music Reviews: Six Organs of Admittance Music Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is a welcome step in the right direction for Six Organs and the excellent Drag City label.
		Recorded four years later, the second track, "The Six Stations," is a response to the title track.
		While The Manifestation offers a glimpse at what Chasny aimed for when he first began recording, the tracks are more amateur and meandering than one would expect from someone who has taken the reins of the psychedelic music scene.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/s/six_organs_of_admittance.htm (1090 words)

	CMT.com : Palace Music : Biography
		Palace Songs, Palace Music, and just plain Palace, is loosely grouped with the '90s anti-folk movement that also includes Bill Callahan of Smog, a labelmate of Oldham's on Chicago's Drag City Records.
		At the same time, Oldham was also involved in the fertile indie rock scene in Louisville, picking up his first technical credit for the photograph on the cover of Slint's 1991 classic, Spiderland.
		Recording regularly during 1993-1994, Oldham released several singles and an EP (An Arrow Through the Bitch) before his second album -- self-titled but also listed as Days in the Wake -- was issued by Drag City in 1994.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/palace_music/bio.jhtml (370 words)

	Splendid E-zine: Features:
		After Rian Murphy took to a tape of demos she had sent to his label, Frost began working with Drag City in late '94.
		I've written a few things since the last record was recorded, but not as much as I would like.
		They have records out on Slow River, which is Rykodisc.
	www.splendidezine.com /features/edith (2679 words)

	The Oberlin Review Online
		Neil Hamburger, the revered stand-up comedian and recording artist for Drag City records will be performing Sunday at the Cat in the Cream at 8 p.m.
		To attempt to describe his records or performances is somewhat of an injustice.
		Hamburger began his career as a recording artist with Amarillo records, releasing two hilarious singles, Looking for Laughs and Bartender the Laugh’s on Me, in 1994 and 1995, respectively.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/2001.03.09/arts/article08.htm (379 words)

	Experimental Folk \| PRESS \| YOUNG GOD RECORDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Add Newsom's lyrics, which detail a personalized mythology populated with fairies and other magical beings, and her vocals, which she sings with a childlike glee, and Newsom is a one-woman folk trio -- one of the more pioneering and unique voices of the genre.
		Oldham, who now records under the moniker Bonnie Prince Billy, was so impressed with what he heard that he asked Newsom to tour with him.
		Newsom agreed to the tour and, later that year, Drag City signed her, releasing her debut, "The Milk-Eyed Mender," this past spring.
	www.younggodrecords.com /Press/PressDetail.asp?ArticleID=847 (1786 words)

	Dischord
		Dischord Records was created in 1980 to document the music coming out of the Washington, D.C. punk community.
		Dischord Direct is the in-house distribution wing of Dischord Records in the USA.
		In the time it took to put the record together there had been...
	toothandnailrecords.monktooth.com /dischord (640 words)

	PAJO about (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		David Pajo went on to record and tour with various Louisville based bands including early incarnations of King Kong and The Palace Brothers.
		He also began performing and recording with many critically acclaimed rock bands; guitar with Stereolab, bass with Royal Trux, drums with King Kong, guitar with The For Carnation, prepared guitar with Matmos, congas with Palace, and piano with Bonny 'Prince' Billy.
		The first full-length was Aerial M on Drag City Records.
	www.papa-m.com /about.html (682 words)

	U.S. Maple - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was here that they recorded their first full-length album Long Hair in Three Stages with renowned indie producer Jim O'Rourke.
		Before the band would go into the studio to work on their follow-up, they recorded a new single, as well as a contribution for a tribute album.
		Their interest in Drag City was a result of their contact with some of its artists one of which included O'Rourke.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,538314,00.html (639 words)

	Lycos Music
		This folk-based lo-fi indie band was formed in Scotland in 1994 by Alasdair Roberts (vocals/guitar) and Dave E. While (bass/violin).
		The duo recorded a demo cassette that was passed on to Will Oldham, resulting in the release of "Ice Age"/"Pissed With You' on the US lo-fi singer-songwriter's Palace label.
		Louise D. (cello) and Eva Peck (drums) completed the line-up on Appendix Out's debut, The Rye Bears A Poison, that was released in 1997 by the US label Drag City Records.
	entertainment.lycos.com /music/searchArtists.php?query=avantasia (124 words)

	Edith Frost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Chicagoan Edith Frost was recording her second Drag City album, Telescopic, in a nearby Virginia studio with Adam and Eve (Royal Trux) at the producing helm, the lowdown was that folkie Frost was making a "rock 'n' roll" record.
		On her last record, Calling Over Time, Frost was just another sweetheart at the indie-folk rodeo; a girl from Texas living in Chicago, collecting cowgirl figurines and singing campfire ballads about loneliness and heartache.
		Edith Frost, the prodigal daughter of Drag City, whose prior releases (the Edith Frost EP and Calling Over Time) struck me as isolated noir-folk with a unequivocally country edge, has caught me off guard on her newest album, Telescopic.
	www.edithfrost.com /index.php/weblog/categor/P2100 (1489 words)

	WNUR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alumni include music producer and rock musician Steve Albini, music critic and sometimes musician John Corbett, and DJ Snuggles, who is credited as one of the founders of Jungle music.
		Other alumni include the suits behind Drag City Records and Carpark Records, and members of many bands including Ok-Go, The Arcade Fire, Town and Country, Chavez, Volcano!
		Famous house DJs Derrick Carter and Mark Farina also held shows on WNUR in the early nineties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WNUR (376 words)

	Joanna Newsom + (Smog) + Weird War - PopMatters Concert Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Such was the case at Drag City Records' holiday concert, "It's a Wonderful Next Life." The show featured two excellent, left-of-center headliners: morose, alt-country soloist (smog) and divine harpist Joanna Newsom.
		Weird War returned to the stage in new outfits, and it became clear that Drag City was pulling something unusual.
		Unlike her fellow Drag City artists, Newsom is impervious to the hurdy-gurdy of the mini-sets.
	www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/n/newsome-joanna-041218.shtml (1165 words)

	RTX Archive: Bio [1995] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Having burned their bridges in San Francisco, Hagerty and Herrema headed back to DC, where they recorded their Untitled LP (released by Drag City in '92).
		Hagerty and Herrema titled this record, Thank You, but fans both old and new are sure to feel they've been given a gift, for this album is filled with the sound of a finely tuned band hitting on all cylinders.
		All the records we've done up til now are like one big sweep coming up to this point.
	www.rtxarchive.com /archive/writing/bio1995.html (202 words)

	Untitled
		I'm pleased to mention that Brother JT's 2001 release on Birdman Records, Maybe We Should Take Some More, is now available via the very popular online music store, ITunes (www.itunes.com), with the prospect of the three Drag City albums joining it there in the near future.
		Aside from currently recording an album together, the trio plays out in the NYC area every now and then, with details of such events provided at www.elkcity.net.
		Not to belabor the point, but Drag City Records released Brother JT 3's latest recorded effort, Hang In There Baby, in November, and if I'm not mistaken there are a few copies left here and there (this is an attempt at levity and has no reflection on the bitter, awful truth).
	www.brotherjt.freeservers.com (672 words)

	Vinyl Mine
		If you liked that recent Six Organs of Admittance album, you probably were floored by "Thicker Than a Smokey" which was written by Gary Higgins, who released an obscure album in 1973 called Red Hash on the eve of his three year prison term for pot.
		That album has now been re-released on Drag City records - I just received my order today and it's going straight into the car for tomorrow morning's ride.
		Last week, he and his band of yore appeared and were interviewed on Brian Turner's WFMU show (WFMU's Tony Coulter is credited for keeping the album alive) and played two songs and did an interview with Turner.
	vinyljourney.blogspot.com /2005/08/gary-higgins-live-on-wfmu-7-26-05.html (261 words)

	Music 45: Who rocks the music world in Chicago
		It was a satisfying year for all the purists who spent the nineties crying "sell out": After two dismal major-label releases, Royal Trux returned to their indie rock roots with "Accelerator," their fifth record for Drag City.
		Even though his last Gold record was in 1975 ("Sun Goddess"), jazz pianist Lewis could make this list by virtue of the hardware alone: three Grammys and eight Gold Records, mostly collected during the sixties and early seventies.
		The Tower Books and Records on Clark Street in Lincoln Park, a cavernous circus of all things melodic, sells more music than any store in Chicago, and ranks as the fifth largest seller in the country.
	www.newcitychicago.com /guides/music_45_99/fourth_nine.html (688 words)

	HotHouse - The Center for International Performance and Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Though she's been known to play with a number of members of the whole Bloodshot Records and Sugarfree Records mob (Jon Langford and the Waco Brothers, Chris Mills et al.) her music combines an introspective and pretty side (though not in a sissy way), with a more thoughtful bent.
		Her second album, Telescopic on Drag City Records (1998), was produced by Neil Hagerty & Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux.
		This show is to celebrate the much anticipated and long overdue release of her 4th album, Its a Game (Drag City), on November 15.
	www.hothouse.net /programs/date.jsp?date=2005-11-19 (141 words)

	Musictoday® -- the artist/fan connection
		It was while in New York that Frost decided to send an unsolicited package containing some of her four track demos to Drag City Records, mainly because she liked some Palace Brothers records she had heard on the label.
		With her marriage coming to an end, and an excellent first record, Calling Over Time, about to be released, Frost took the leap and moved to Chicago, Drag City’s home base.
		When Drag City first sent me a pile of CDs, that was the first time I had heard Gastr.
	www.musictoday.com /news/artist/frost.asp (1182 words)

	Outer Sound: Features: Chicago Transmissions
		On Talker (Drag City), U.S. Maple thoroughly swallows the corpus of rock and roll and regurgitates it as something wholly other.
		Isotope 217's second full-length, Utonian_Automatic (Thrill Jockey), aspires to a similarly genre-defying sound, employing the nascent jazz fusion of Miles Davis and Herbie "Mwandishi" Hancock as a springboard for their rubbery low-end, airtight grooves and pastoral experimentation.
		However, it is Smith's spare trumpet improvisations processed through Mark Trayle's electronics that are worth the price of admission alone: "Multiamerica" shrieks, distorts and ultimately transcends, while "A Thousand Cranes" coruscates with warmth and melody.
	www.outersound.com /features/forms_sounds/99-09-backtoschool.html (371 words)

	75 or Less album reviews.
		Records, we are giving away a complete hand-made promo match box with all the super-limited foil stamped covers and band signed CD.
		After running out of hypodermic needles and realizing he had been married to Keith Richards for five years, Neil Hagerty promptly quit Royal Trux and spent a month scrubbing his skin with steel wool.
		To their credit, "One Chord Compliant", the last track, is as good as anything recorded by the Flaming Lips or the Charm Pops.
	www.75orless.com /?/archive/2001/10/drag_city_super.php (244 words)

	The Milk-Eyed Mender
		Ever since Nick Drake records began to show their wear and tear, folk lovers have been awaiting a new artist to crown, and Joanna Newsom is the next princess.
		She has just debuted her first non-independent album, The Milk-Eyed Mender, on the Drag City record label.
		Backing up her whimsical lyrics with a concert harp and the occasional harpsichord or piano, the 21-year-old from Nevada City, Calif. has only recently shared her music publicly and has already performed with Cat Power, Devendra Banhart and Bonnie Prince Billy.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2005/2/11/arts/article9.html (355 words)

	Lorraine Feather - Assorted Comments
		On eight of the dozen Waller compositions on the "New York City Drag" CD, Feather is accompanied by the magnificent Dick Hyman, pianist; Mike Lang is on three selections, and Feather's voice is accompanied by the digitalized Waller, himself, on "Too Good Lookin" ("Blue Black Bottom") and "Cezanne" ("Smashing Thirds").
		Ellington recorded it in 1938 and again in 1960, though her version, jointly arranged by Russell Ferrante and Bill Elliott, will likely eclipse the maestro's own recordings.
		The recordings of Lorraine Feather just better each time she records, and if it isn't obvious yet, she is stepping into the shoes of jazz-oriented lyricists like Jon Hendricks Bob Dorough or Dave Frishberg with her ability to match the sentiment of an instrumental composition with piquant and precisely cadenced words.
	www.lorrainefeather.com /comments.html (4798 words)

	Papa M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Next he constucted a completely instrumental album in 1997 and released it on Drag City Records under the moniker Aerial M.
		Papa M finally became the proper name in 1999 as Drag City released the very well-received Live From A Shark Cage.
		Papa M will be on hiatus for a good portion of 2002 as David will be busy recording one of the most talked about and anticipated albums in rock history with his newest group Zwan.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/papam.html (362 words)

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