Six Organs of Admittance

As explained in a syndicated NPR piece, Connecticut songwriter Gary Higgins was arrested in the early 1970s on "very, very serious" charges for drugs. Read More

Trust us when we say that countless otherwise sage people have sacrificed years of their lives trying to accurately summarize the music of Kayo Dot . Read More

It’s in the rambler tradition of novelists and guitarists alike that writer Joseph Mattson and musician Ben Chasny come together in their new book-with-soundtrack, “Empty the Sun,” released November 3rd on A Barnacle Book and Drag City Records. 2006’s “The Sun Awakens” and this year’s “Luminous Night” among them — the novel deals with its light source in a starker, more glaring way. Read More

In 1973, before he got arrested for marijuana and spent two years in prison, Gary Higgins released Red Hash , an album of easy, gruff and stoned folk songs. Read More