Drag City Archives

ALARM’s 51 Favorite Albums of 2013

Saving the best for last, we've chosen our 51 favorite albums of 2013, pulled from the acclaimed and the unsung…

10 years ago

"The Source Family" was an unconventional commune / religious order, with its own rock band, founded by a man known…

11 years ago

Will Oldham loves coffee. Will Oldham loves coffee so much that he has his own Kona Rose (Bonnie Billy) Coffee…

11 years ago

The video for Ty Segall’s "Thank God for Sinners," from his solo LP Twins, is a beautiful, fleshy nightmare that…

11 years ago

Last month ALARM presented its 50 favorite albums of 2012, an eclectic, rock-heavy selection of discs that were in steady…

11 years ago

Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from…

11 years ago

Om’s new video for "State of Non-Return," from Advaitic Songs, is a six-minute exercise in Eastern-influenced drone-and-doom mastery.

12 years ago

A fitting finale to his trifecta of releases this year, Twins finds garage-rock singer-songwriter Ty Segall not so much settling…

12 years ago

In light of his third release in just a year's time, the ever-prolific garage/lo-fi wunderkind Ty Segall has released a…

12 years ago

An undulating, tripped-out space opera, Ascent is the latest from guitarist Ben Chasny’s psych-folk project Six Organs of Admittance —…

12 years ago

Garage-rock revivalist Ty Segall has a brand-new bag of heaviness coming 10/9 from Drag City, and its first single, "The…

12 years ago

Borne from the rhythm section of stoner-metal trio Sleep, Om has spent nearly 10 years combining drone and sludge with…

12 years ago