Chicago’s Drag City Records is featured in this Spotlight: installment.
Drag City, one of Chicago’s best record labels, began in 1989 by releasing material by Pavement and Royal Trux. Now Drag City has a number of subsidiary labels (e.g. Moikai and Palace Records). In their dozen years of operation, their roster has grown to include Edith Frost, Gastr del Sol (et al.), Red Krayola (et al.), Aerial M, US Maple, and Palace Music, among others. Drag City is one of the best operations around. They have not pigeonholed themselves with a number of tightly related bands and one sound; they have not restricted themselves geographically to such an extent as to be a regional record label; and their choices have been exemplary.
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