Browse by Label: DRAG CITY

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Malefactor, Ade
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 045CD

"Malefactor, Ade brings us to the third (and most recent) phase of Red Krayola history. It harks us back to the Germany of the late 1980s. The material on this release was written by Albert Oehlen and Mayo Thompson, with contributions from Werner Büttner, Andreas Dorau and Rüdiger Carl. These songs were laid down 'fast' over two days in Hamburg and finished in England where the then-Rough-Trade-executive Thompson was producing Primal Scream. The idea of things overlapping each other was raised to a principle in this period, and the strategies employed to realize this principle are still coming to fruition on the most recent Red Krayola release, Fingerpainting. We think."

Artist:	THOMPSON, MAYO
Title:	Corky's Debt To His Father
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 049CD

Originally reissued by Drag City in 1994. "Mayo Thompson's until now ultra-rare solo album. The album was produced in Houston, Texas in 1970 by Thompson, Frank Davis and Roger 'Rocket' Romano for the short-lived but nonetheless legendary Texas Revolution label of Walt Andrus. Though pressed and advertised in the pages of Rolling Stone, the demise of the label meant the album went largely undistributed until the mid 1980s when Glass Records (London) gave it its first proper release. Coming as the sun set on the first psychedelic rock era, Corky's Debt evokes the early days of acoustic blues, but is already in the maelstrom from which punk rock would emerge just a few years later. The set features innovative performances by some of Houston's finest musicians of the time playing eleven songs by Thompson -- one with Frederick Barthelme, with whom he started The Red Crayola. They represent a broad range of expressive manners and forms. Made to stand with the finest comparable work of the period, Corky's Debt shows Thompson at his most accessible. Unique ballads, blues, rock and love songs flow one to another with style, grace and intensity, and the handling of diverse popular-music idioms and language that characterize his more widely known work in The Red Crayola are also to be found. The line between genius and madness is very thin. The line between a million dollars and nothing is also very thin. Had Corky's Debt been heard back then, today, if someone mentioned Astral Weeks, you might say, 'It does?' The beat lives on."

Artist:	PLUSH
Title:	More You Becomes You
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	DC 070CD

"Representing a night without sleep of the soul, More You Becomes You is a collection of awake dreams all played to the tender accompaniment of a long piano. By a lone piano player. Liam Hayes' visions have been placed by those who know in the category of what we like to call chamber-pop, which implies the presence of some sort of orchestra, or faux-orchestra, or at least some kind of classically-oriented harmonic and melodic are. References points for the LP include: Nicky Hopkins' rare solo LP, The Tin Man Was a Dreamer, and Harry and Randy's Nilsson Sings Newman. And of course no comparison would be complete without John Phillips' bottom of the barrel pop classic, Wolf King of LA.

Artist:	RED CRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Soldier-Talk
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 079CD

"The Red Crayola's Soldier-Talk returns at last. Drag City Records are proud to announce that, after having been missing in action for twenty-eight years, this vital, much acclaimed work is now available again. Soldier-Talk appeared first on Radar Records. A custom label built around Elvis Costello, financed and distributed by WEA, Radar had licensed the International Artists catalog in 1978 and had already re-released the band's first album, The Parable of Arable Land, and first single, 'Wives in Orbit' b/w 'Yik-Yak.' Soldier-Talk was The Red Crayola's first new commercial release since 1968. Recorded after their second tour of Europe where they shared the highways with columns of NATO forces on the move in a rapidly heating Cold War, it reflects the world as it sat, awash in punk rock and its cognates, dreading mass destruction. Soldier-Talk is petit-guignol, a travesty of expression; its screams and sighs, a theatre of terror."

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Live 1967
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	DC 092CD

Live recordings of the original Red Crayola, from the Angry Arts Festival (6/29/67) and the Berkeley Folk Music Festival (6/67), including guest John Fahey on one track. In the style of Drag City's other archival resurrection, Coconut Hotel, this represents the The Red Crayola at their most way-out. "Despite penning a couple of classics of psychedelia on their first LP ('Hurricane Fighter Plane' and 'Transparent Radiation'), the band showed up at the Berkeley Folk Music Festival in the summer of 1967 with a markedly different approach to ensemble playing. Taking off from the concept of a 'free-form Freak Out', The Red Crayola leaned towards avant-garde approaches. Playing feedback-pieces, sound-as-music, time- and no-time pieces, compressions and motions, one-second pieces, music within music, unhearable music and so on. At the Berkeley Folk Music Festival they met John Fahey, master of the indexes and finger picked guitar. He sat in on their set there. Also included in this mind-melting collection of feedback drones, improvisation and unhearable music are recordings made in their Venice hotel room after their concert there. These pieces represent the 'unplugged' Crayola approach to their unconventional dictum, as well as their serious attitude towards this often lighthearted, intellectual-physical genre."

Artist:	ROYAL TRUX
Title:	Singles, Live, Unreleased
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	2CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	DC 093CD

"Those dusty old vaults are filled with a lot more than just a single LP's-worth of outtakes, and they can't all be bad. All the original singles are here, as well as outtakes from the Twin Infinitives and subsequent Untitled LP sessions. Selected tracks from John Peel's program and a couple of live treatments are included for good measure." Complete singles collection, 10 previously unreleased studio tracks, 2 live tracks and three songs only released on compilation albums. From back in the day when it seemed like Royal Trux had something to do with the future of the universe.

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Hazel
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 098CD

"Throughout the 16 tracks on Hazel, the group vibe is in full effect...a relaxed, varied LP, the latest in form and content; language and music, art and culture; featuring as many of the above as possible on one record. Drawing on the collective mind that have participated in the 90s Krayola throughout the last 3 years (David Grubbs, Jim O'Rourke, John McEntire, Tom Watson, Stephan Prina, George Hurley) and adding a new voice (Mary Lass Stewart), Hazel realizes the musical socialism that Mayo Thompson and his various Red Krayolai have historically hunted for since the mid 1960s. Recalling the diversity of 1968's God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It, Hazel also brings to mind the pop music of Kangaroo?(1981), and of course the slinky rhythms of most recent Krayola excursion Armour and Language (1995)."

Artist:	OLDHAM, WILL
Title:	Joya
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 107CD

"Back from an extended tour of the wild, Will Oldham has delivered his second solo LP and his first new record since Arise Therefore in the Spring of 1996. Thought at the time to be Palace Music, Arise Therefore now sounds like the music of a man alone, departed from the brotherhood he knew forever. Joya however, finds him in good company...like the President Jimmy Carter, William Faulkner and other southerners before him, Oldham as seen his vision of a country unified go down in flames like so much fucking shit, and has had to beat a hasty retreat into obscurity and eventual delirium."

Artist:	OLDHAM, WILL
Title:	Guarapero:Lost Blues 2
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 111CD

"What we really have here, beyond all brain-thumbing vanity, is a collection; or perhaps re-collection, of fan-pleasing rare and lost tunes, some of which have only been seen in bootleg (or 'pro-artist') format. Guarapero:Lost Blues 2 is for the pimply faced True Fan who waved the flag, carried the torch and bitched like a bitch over what he/she was/is entitled to in a Palace singles compilation. Now they and you can relive the Palace years (1991-1995) and the Oldham years (1996-2000) with total freaking recall. This one's for you -- now go screw."

Artist:	GHOST
Title:	Lama Rabi Rabi
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 113CD

4th album and first non-PSF full length release (worldwide release for Drag City). "Ghost was born in 1984 by some Tokyo Japan youth. At the beginning they were playing completely experimental improvisation but doing so naturally, as a form of worship. Through the production of the 1st album Ghost, and their second, Second Time Around, their sound has slowly changed to the expression of songwriting. Along the way, they have attracted attention for their fascination with traditional Japanese religious music, and a fascination with trance-rock jamming, as well. Last year, the third Ghost album, Temple Stone appeared, containing ten tunes recorded live at an old Buddhist temple and a church. Their live activities are usually held in magical patterns. They used to play anywhere (temple, church, field, woods, ruins, etc.) with an ideal of conception and creation free from constraint. Their purpose is real spiritual music when and wheresoever they play it."

Artist:	AERIAL M
Title:
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 114CD

"M like Minimal. I mean, once you sit down and hear three guitars, a bass, drums and a shaker coming out of the speaker, minimal might not be the first word that comes to mind. But sooner or later the cleanliness of the mix and the lightness of the music in general sweeps away, leaving a pure sound. There's folk music in this, and scratchy punk guitars. Low-key jazziness, an awareness of dance-beats, a series of rhythms that ebb and flow. Just before it's all over, classical overtones are evoked. Always backed by firm, indivisible drumming. Aerial-M is a group of sounds recorded in Louisville, KY for the most part."

Artist:	TELE:FUNKEN/FLYING SAUCER ATTACK
Title:	Distant Station
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 117CD

"Using samples of timeless FSA compositions such as 'Oceans' and 'Popol Vuh I,' Tom Fenn aka Tele:Funken has produced a new work that ups the sci-fi quotient in the FSA sound -- a record called, appropriately, Distant Station... divided into two parts, the Tele:Funken transmission utilizes long moments of silence, static drones and slow fades in and out. It's even more static than the dreamiest of FSA material, which suddenly seems a lot more rhythmic in comparison. These sounds ebb and flow too, but in a much slower fashion. The dreamy, trancelike element to the FSA sound is brought out by the Tele:Funken sound system."

Artist:	O'ROURKE, JIM
Title:	Bad Timing
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 120CD

"Make no mistake, Bad Timing is not a pop album by any standards. But it is a musing on popular standards and uses much of the same instrumentation that many of our country's most popular records have. Yes, Bad Timing is a theme record, Jim O'Rourke's pop opera, just waiting for someone to come along and play with it. Based on Fahey-esque 6-string acoustic guitar foundations, each of the three pieces expand to include other musical elements. Piano, organ, electric guitar, brass, strings -- everything, it seems except vocals! Think of the impressionist Americana of Van Dyke Parks and the soundtracks of Jack Nitzsche."

Artist:	OLDHAM/RIAN MURPHY, WILL
Title:	All Most Heaven
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	DC 123CD

"All Most Heaven is actually a Will Oldham and Rian Murphy affair. And a very steamy affair at that. Initially, Oldham wrote the songs and gave a demo to Murphy to produce them as he saw fit. This involved enlisting dozens of talents to arrange and play musical and vocal parts. Once this was done, Will was brought back into the picture, to sing the haunting and mysterious words to the songs as only he can. A little sweetening, a little remixing, and here you have the finished production."

Artist:	FAHEY, JOHN
Title:	How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	Book
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	DC 124BK

"John Fahey is feared and revered around the world as a guitar player and composer. His inventions for acoustic and electric strings are the stuff of legend. Since he began recording in Maryland in the late 1950s, Mr. Fahey's access to the unknown tongue has been made manifest on over 30 albums, and his presence has unsettled audiences from here to Tasmania. He has served as a spiritual model for guitarists as disparate as Leo Kottke and Thurston Moore. He has been called a musical visionary by everyone from The New York Times to Ptolemaic Terrascope. John Fahey is a giant of 20th Century American Music. This is well known. It is perhaps less well-known that Fahey's pen has the same world-gobbling ferocity as his guitar. His early records included savagely hilarious liner notes, and other sightings of his clamorous writerly discourse have surfaced over the years. Now, finally, here is a collection that makes an explosive selection of his work available for general public consumption. What else can we possibly say, except, 'Grab your ankles, dear readers. It's kingdom time!'." -Byron Coley, 1999. Introduction by Jim O'Rouke. 291 pages, paperbound. $19.98 suggested list price.

Artist:	GHOST
Title:
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 127CD

US pressings on both formats of the first 3 Ghost albums, previously available as Japanese imports on PSF. Starting with the self-titled debut from 1990. "This is primitive early Ghost, psychedelic in the bell-bottomed way, sort of like a German Os Mutantes (or perhaps a Brazilian Amon Duul), mixing ethnic sounds in with the groovy beats, guitars, and the haunting wail of a recorder to create (rather than recreate) and ultimately define (rather than redefine) a completely modern psychedelic sound! With titles like 'Guru in the Echo,' and 'I've Been Flying,' the young psych side of Ghost is much on display here."

Artist:	TURN ON
Title:
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	DC 131CD

"Coming on much like the keyboard-heavy synthetic dance sounds that Stereolab have offered over the years, Turn On is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a duo comprised of Tim Gane (Stereolab) and Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas). The results? An instrumental travelogue of beats and grooves, some barely a minute in length, others stretching out a bit and all impeccably rendered with touches of whatever makes it happen: synthetic percussion, keyboards galore, drums, shakers, banjo, samples and sequencers, even a cameo appearance of vocal 'ba-ba-ba's'." 11 track, 29 minute EP.

Artist:	DALL, CYNTHIA
Title:	Sound Restores Young Men
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 132CD

"Sound Restores Young Men, Cynthia's sophomore effort, features other songs, other sounds and other catharses, as well as another high-voltage dose of heavy nerves. What we have is another beautiful record, a second LP from the young talent who has learned to call herself Cynthia Dall. The thrumming and chiming of electric guitars is the heartbeat of this record with other textures insinuating themselves over time. Pianos come and go. Distortion and reverb gather like clouds, then disperse as emotions that blew in then blow away."

Artist:	WALKER, SCOTT
Title:	Tilt
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 134CD

Domestic issue of this strange1995 album, previously issued in Europe on the major label Fontana. "It must be stressed that even those familiar with Walker's career -- the sublime mid-60s Walker Brothers hits, the dramatic maturation of The Voice and Inimitable Presence on the not-to-be-missed first four solo LPs -- were shocked by Tilt. Yes, Tilt astonishes. The bleak, gothic theatre that Walker's oblique lyrics and operatic vocals convey is bolstered every step of the way by dark string arrangements, reverbed guitars, the whirring of synthesizers and the rattle of percussion. It furthers by an astonishing margin the already singular breadth of Scott Walker's 30-year career, finding him at still another and different peak of his ability as a vocalist and lyricist. And God what a barren and unfamiliar summit it is!"

Artist:	THE VOCOKESH
Title:	Paradise Revisited
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 136CD

"The cult of Frenecki is still at large. They keep to themselves and no one bothers them, but if you storm their house, you'll find a lot of vintage electronic generators, a cache of foreign instruments, some rather large amplification devices and stores (and scores) of axes, picks and strings. This is prog rock, but a pre-post-rock version of prog. Coming on like an undiscovered green world of music, the Vocokesh manage to reintroduce earth-bound psychedelia into your mix."

Artist:	FLYING SAUCER ATTACK
Title:	New Lands
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 137CD

Supposedly the beginning of "Phase Two" in the FSA odyssey, and a relatively massive one at that. "The long-awaited follow-up to Further has been a long time coming -- over two years to be honest. Since that acoustically-singed offering, the sound of FSA has revolved into metallic pastures...this new FSA sound steers through the past pop music into the direction of rhythmic loopery. Bass anchors the familiar guitar fuzz, edgelessly felt through the wall of sound and giving it a beat where one was only imagined before. Previously only hinted at, this pulse booms forth in a bigger way, although still obscured by clouds."

Artist:	MOVIETONE
Title:	Day And Night
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 141CD

"The second album from Great Britain's Movietone. Formed by Flying Saucer Attack's Rachel Brook, in Bristol. The first half of 1997 was spent recording Day And Night, a shift from the aggressive sonic outbursts of their debut to a softer yet more intense acoustic based set. It's based on songs and the singing of Kate Wright in front. The sounds range from around from almost-there acoustic guitar and piano intro-versions to rather more percussive rhythmic workouts that find keyboards drifting in over beds of guitar play. 'Dreamy' is a word that come to mind. Woodwinds blow and strings sound, merely suggesting the orchestral without every fully entering that hallowed (and recently, much traversed) pantheon."

Artist:	MOEBIUS/PLANK/THOMPSON
Title:	Ludwig's Law
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 143CD

First ever issue of this unreleased collaborative album from the mid-80s (although the instrumental tracks are theoretically the same as those found on the Moebius/Plank En Route CD, released by the Curious Music label in the US). "Ludwig's Law is a relative puzzle that is only now taking a coherent shape. By 1985 the final releases of the second generation Red Crayola were behind. It was at this time that Mayo Thompson met Moebius. Moebius has been delivering an album a year to Sky, often producing them with Conny Plank. Moebius and Conny had been building basic tracks in an emulator. They invited Mayo Thompson to write lyrics and sing. Mayo Thompson had just discovered the work of Werner Büttner and Albert Oehlen -- artists whose language played on pretense and the potential for misrepresentation, among other things. Mayo senses a place to start in their book Angst vor Nice. For lyrics, a selection was 'sampled.' Sky rejected the master, Ludwig's Law was regulated to the vault."

Artist:	ROYAL TRUX
Title:	Accelerator
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 145CD

"Accelerator is a metaphysical miracle -- a virtual present-day occurrence -- yer new blues -- a suggestion as to what the future would sound like to the past -- or vice versa. Mashing the two together, this record comes on like the fucking weather, changing organically, ruling your life. Trading old skins for new bones, they've stripped their chassis down faster and cleaner than a Queens chop shop. Freshly clipped guitar riffs, beats with bounce, the odd keyboards, roadhouse choirs of backing vocalists , and their twinned lead voices are the weapons of choice this time. Accelerator is tart and nasty."

Artist:	PRINA, STEPHEN
Title:	Push Comes To Love
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 147CD

"In the spirit of those great LA pop records of the seventies (notably the work of Steely Dan) these combined talents [lyrics: David Grubbs, Mayo Thompson, Dennis Cooper, Lynn Tillman, etc.; production: Grubbs & Jim O'Rourke; drums & vocals: John McEntire & Sam Prekop] have produced further expansions and refinements to the world of breezy, intellectually informed pop music. Prina's own keyboard and guitar work have been augmented with synthesizer, pedal steel, cornet and a smooth rhythm section of bass, drums and, occasionally, a drum machine. Like the classical, pure vocalists who have come before him (Sinatra, Streisand, Joni Mitchell, Morrissey, Manson), Prina wraps his voice around the diverse material, presenting an LP as the soundtrack for every man, whether that man is a woman, an academic, a performance artist, a homeowner, a lover, somebody's stepson, 'Mr. Generosity,' or you."

Artist:	GHOST
Title:	Snuff Box Immanence
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 148CD

1999 release, repressed for the first time in a while. "Following up the widely lauded Lama Rabi Rabi was quite a task for Masaki Batoh and Ghost. Ultimately, the follow-up takes the form of not one release, but two -- the other of which is the simultaneously released Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibe (DC 165). Snuffbox -- featuring trumpet, trombone, marimba, vibes, glockenspiel, Celtic harp, lute, recorded, a variety of keyboard sounds (including the irresistible sounds of a harpischord), banjo and tubular bells is a dreamy, colorful LP, heavy with the sound of a moody Ghost. Snuffbox Immanence is acoustic folk subverted by electronic psychedelic blurs and sound effects -- an existent shimmer and flowering of eternal beauty, over and over again. Once again, Ghost come from beyond, preaching a life other than this day."

Artist:	SILVER JEWS
Title:	American Water
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 149CD

"David Berman is a funny guy who talks too much. But when he straps on the guitar, he's a funny guy who sings not nearly enough. Then there's the pop know-how of Pavement singer Stephen Malkmus, his soothing voice in direct Cher-like relief to his muse: the inspiring untrained gravel of Berman's lead vocal (Sonny!). Bingo -- you've got American Water. This record will be your prostitute for the next six weeks, should you come up with the nerve to pimp it."

Artist:	FROST, EDITH
Title:	Telescopic
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	DC 150LP

LP version. "Edith, possessed of such a very lovely voice, it's true, here turns in a sophomore effort that goes way beyond all previously established boundaries. Telescopic ups the ante on here soulful folk-tunes, filling out the curves and arcs of her body of work with colorful arrangements of guitars, acoustic and electric bass, piano, synthesizer, mandolin, accordion, drums and percussion, cello and violin, and just for good measure, a flute! It is psychedelic Edith, really -- brightly colored, neo-rootsy and vibrantly tuneful."

Artist:	LICHT/LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS, ALAN
Title:	Hoffman Estates
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 151CD

A large ensemble improv album, featuring Ken Vandermark, Rob Mazurek, Kevin Drumm, Rick Rizzo, Darin Gray, etc. "O'Rourke decided to pair up Loren with Alan Licht. A full day of improvising was recorded, selected, and then arrangements were later added by O'Rourke in a sort of Gil Evans/Miles Davis move, or more appropriately Teo Maceo meets Mazza-Licht. Organized like a continuum of music that brings new meaning to 'suite' (or at the very least, a flexible new spelling), the record is at once a psychedelic brew of fuzzed-out free jazz and howling blues that at times will make your head spin. The truly out and shout nature of the music that day took everyone by surprise, and it'll be no surprise when it takes you too. As in 'O-U-T'. Comparisons: From the free jazz of Pharaoh Sanders and Bill Dixon to the early 70s electric space of Miles Davis' 'He Loved Him Madly,' to the molasses blues of Connors' classics like In Pittsburgh. This record has the distinction of sounding distinctly unlike any of these recordings."

Artist:	ROYAL TRUX
Title:	Three Song
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	DC 154CD

"As always, the Trux are already deep in conversation as the curtain rises. If it isn't their lyrics turning the mirror towards your eyes, it's the sweet nodes of guitar raining gently around the speakers speaking to you. 'Deafer Than Blind' is a simple groove with a knotted snarl of lyrics spat out over a repeated chorus at it's conclusion. 'The United States of America Vs. One 1974 Cadillac El Dorado Sedan' is like the Gordian Knot; instead of tangling this formidable structure, Royal Trux take their scimitar of rock n roll and carve through it in one mighty swath. The heavy beat characteristic of this EP is out in force throughout the many minutes of this epic, at times rocking medieval, some times rapping, and always grooving forward through shrouding mists. It just keeps changing."

Artist:	RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:	Fingerpainting
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	DC 156CD

"Now we have The Red Krayola's state-of-the-states address 1999, presented to one and all in grand Red Krayola style, going all the way back to the days when they spelled it with a C instead of a K (c. 1967). Back then, the world was hearing it's first of this now legendary outfit. Having never tried to do anything the same twice, The Red Krayola, manage in a way not to again on Fingerpainting, although this time, in a way, they tried. Fingerpainting features unreleased songs from the distant days of 1966. The 90s Red Krayola shuffles these ancient pre-Arable Red Crayola songs with the sounds of neo-freakouts, live on the world's stage -- free, familiar, ugly, for a whole bunch of new generations. Fingerpainting features both the latter day Krayola and the original Red Crayola, from thirty years back, bringing it all full circle. And thus allowing another circle to be formed as soon as possible."

Artist:	STEREOLAB
Title:	Aluminum Tunes
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	2CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	DC 159CD

"This is Stereolab's third 'Odds and Sods' compilation. Comparing this to Switched On from some five years back, it's a very different listening experience, though certainly no less enjoyable. Plus, they keep growing in size -- Refried Extoplasm was twice as long as Switched On, and Aluminum Tunes is three times as huge. Recorded between 1994 and 1997, Aluminum Tunes is the companion piece to Stereolab's two most popular records, Mars Audiac Quartet and Emperor Tomato Ketchup. The tunes were gathered from over twenty diverse releases, ranging from split 7" singles, tour singles, compilation tracks, a 12" remix, a bonus CD, and the entirety of the acclaimed EP, Music For the Amorphous Body Study Center. The reference points are the same as ever, yet more perfectly integrated -- mood music, muzak and bubblegum pop, soundtrack sounds and orchestral jazz, all layered with analogue synth sounds and an understanding of minimalist that betrays the influence of Kraut-rock bands."

Artist:	GASTR DEL SOL
Title:	Crookt, Crackt, or Fly
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	DC 043CD

Artist:	KING KONG
Title:	Movie Star
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	DC 072CD

Artist:	SMOG
Title:	Sewn to the Sky
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 074CD

Artist:	RED CRAYOLA WITH ART & LANGUAGE
Title:	Kangaroo?
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 080CD

Artist:	PALACE MUSIC
Title:	Arise Therefore
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 088CD

Artist:	HAMBURGER, NEIL
Title:	America's Funnyman
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 097CD

Artist:	RED CRAYOLA/BISMARCKSTRASSE/50
Title:	Three Songs On A Trip To The United States
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DC 105CD

Artist:	STYRENES
Title:	One Fanzine Reader Writes
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	12"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	DC 108EP

Artist:	USA
Title:	Little Birds
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 115LP

Artist:	CHESTNUT STATION
Title:
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	DC 121LP

Artist:	APPENDIX OUT
Title:	The Rye Bears A Poison
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	LP
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	DC 126LP

Artist:	TURNER, MICK
Title:	Tren Phantasma
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	LP
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	DC 138LP

Artist:	GRUBBS, DAVID
Title:	The Thicket
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DC 160CD