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Album review: The Peacers – ‘Blexxed Rec’: San Fran garage outfit’s third has some nuggets within

Whatcha got? A great little garage rock record, is what. One foot in a California garage, fiddling with the fuzz pedals; another gazing across the ocean to Swingin' London town, taking in folkiness, powerpop, mod and freakbeat touches. A great record for a dusk motorway, this; yeah, a great little record.

Soundtrack of Our Lives: New Bums’ Ben Chasny takes us for a musical trip

NEW BUMS is the collaborative shore of of Six Organs of Admittance’s prolific psych voyager Ben Chasny and Donovan Quinn, of erstwhile Jagjaguwar psych-folk mainstays Skygreen Leopards. The duo first ventured into the world…

See: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles get languid with the deep verdancy of ‘Dowsing’

IT’S STILL pretty weird out there right now, right? I think it’s getting better; thank the sweet lord for the gift of music. And one area in which 2021 is…

Album review: New Bums – ‘Last Time I Saw Grace’: Ben and Donovan reveal an unexpected treat

Last Time I Saw I Grace reveals more depth than the two single drops really hinted it contained; yeah sure, there's cracking moments of that raggedy-assness, but the run of wider-screen psych-country and other tracks are deft and prettily arranged, less ... excellently thrown down than you might expect. It probably isn't the kind of album that throws you back against the wall at some party downtown for a ruby-red lipped snog; but it very much is the kind of album you end up on a spontaneous road trip with, or hanging with on a rainy Sunday, and realised you had deep feelings for all along.

Track: The Peacers – ‘Ghost Of A Motherfucker’: a lazyass garage nugget

WHAT’S set San Fran’s ace garage outfit The Peacers apart from other bands from that city’s scene they’re travelling alongside (and exchanging members with) is a more baroque, acoustic approach…

Track: New Bums – ‘Cover Band’: lamentin’ the life of the working combo

NEW BUMS, the duo of Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny and Skygreen Leopards’ Donovan Quinn, are all set to release their actually really lovely second album, Last Time I…

Track: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles – ‘I See God’: that old time religion beautifully recast for guitar and banjo

KEYS, the soon-come long-playing conversation between Chicago’s Bill MacKay on guitar and North Carolina’s Nathan Bowles at the banjo, ranges back and forth across the great bluegrass and guitar soli…

SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Pale Horse Rider’: the album’s delayed, but it’s so worth the wait

AS HIS second solo album for Drag City approaches, LA’s Cory Hanson – Wand frontman and on his own clock, potent (and a little dark) psych-country explorer, has released a…

ALBUM REVIEW: Bill Stone – ‘Stone’: Maine psych-folk nugget sifted and reissued

Drag City dig deep, strike fortune: Bill Stone's album rings down the decades and it's really sweet. Sure it's a little rough 'round the edges, but that's absolutely part of the charm; you can hear these songs live and breathe, the actual moment of their realisation. Real and delightful

NEWS: Drag City announce new signing AND imprint – hear E.R. Jurken’s ‘Colonels Of The Morning’

DRAG CITY have been so moved by the psychedelic whimsies of new signing E.R. Jurken that they’ve decided the only right thing to do is to is set up a…

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