The Neverendless train just keeps on ridin' like so many motorik-influenced drum beats for Chicago rockers CAVE, who just released a new video for "Adam Roberts." Use your peepers and watch it here. more ›

If any local music fans were wondering about the logistics of Cave’s mobile truck stunt, they now have video proof of how it went, courtesy of Drag City and Gonzo Chicago. more ›

To celebrate next week's release of their excellent Neverendless, local krautrockers Cave are playing a series of shows Thursday on the back of a mobile truck. more ›

The Reader reports that the Sony DADC warehouse, holding stock from numerous labels including Chicago's Drag City and Thrill Jockey imprints, was destroyed by a fire as a result of the riots in London last night. Thrill Jockey has suffered around $300,000 in losses and while Drag City wouldn't tell The Reader the exact extent of the damage until they knew more its effects are described as "catastrophic." The Guardian reports over a hundred other labels were affected including WARP, 4AD, Domino Records and Beggars Banquet. more ›

Cave’s 2009 release Psychic Psummer started off quietly, but then leapt off the speaker with frantic krautrock and pulsating proto-punk, like a compromise between formed between The Stooges and Neu! While the Chicago band certainly demonstrated an aptitude for laying down a sonic ruckus, it did so at the expense of exploring non-intense moods. So does the title of the band’s debut EP for Drag City, Pure Moods, suggest that they’ve gone the route of smooth jazz and ambient new age? more ›

Joanna Newsom is somewhat of a controversial artist; people seem to either hate her or love her. Some say she’s just a unicorn-loving, harp-plucking faerie and others say the singer / songwriter / harpist is an avant-garde leader of the neo-folk scene. Well, we think she’s pretty fantastic and that her music isn’t all angelic and innocent like her instrument of choice might connote. Fellow fans will be glad to hear that she’s coming to Chicago in April in support of her upcoming album, Have One On Me, a triple LP running over two hours long. Samples and details of the massive album, due for release February 23, have been kept strictly under wraps, but for the past few weeks Newsom’s label, Drag City, has been streaming one selected track each week on its site. more ›

If you missed today’s stellar installment of Audible Architecture with The Ex at Millennium Park’s Great Lawn, never fear! You can get your fill of electronic music in the open air when the park puts on their Audio Picnic tonight, where you can witness firsthand the intense battle for local label dominance as employees of Thrill Jockey Records, Bloodshot Records, Kranky Records, and Drag City throw down their finest tunes at this musical free-for-all; rare recordings and as-yet unreleased tracks from the labels’ upcoming albums are definitely part of the evening’s playlist. more ›

The Empty Bottle, in conjunction with Britain's The Wire magazine, will host this weekend's fifth annual Adventures in Modern Music festival, a self-described "celebration of 'outsider sounds.'" The festival promises to pack 'em into the Bottle for sets by groundbreaking artists both new and historic. Daily lineups, with highlights: TONIGHT (Wednesday): White Magic, Badawi, Holy Fuck, and Graveyards & Zac Davis Drag City's White Magic is fronted by the smoky-voiced Mira Bilotte, who channels a... more ›

Apparently, size doesn’t matter…when it comes to music and movies. Though Oscar nominations won’t be announced until the end of the month, the Tribune’s Mark Caro is already proclaiming this the biggest year for indie films “since four of the five 1996 best picture nominees were non-studio offerings.” But what is indie anymore? The examples cited by Caro include Brokeback Mountain, Good Night and Good Luck, and Capote, which are all films that come from... more ›

Do you feel intimidated walking into Reckless Records? Did you cry soft tears of recognition during the “I Just Called To Say I Love You” scene in High Fidelity? Well sob no more, friend. This month’s Illinois Entertainer features an indie record label fakebook so you’ll never confuse Polyvinyl Records with Black Vinyl Records ever again (there’s a version of it posted online as well). We know there are a few labels around town they missed but perhaps these are the only ones who bothered to fill out the questionnaire. The guide tells you which labels accept unsolicited demos (almost all of them do) and what type of music they feature. more ›