Drag City is a Chicago, Illinois based independent record label. It was established in 1989 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States and the largest inland city in the country, with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... The concept of an independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of one of the major record labels, which are generally defined to be the handful of media corporations which have recently dominated the recorded music industry in the West. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States and the largest inland city in the country, with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

Drag City specializes in more experimental indie rock acts. Among the bands that have released material on Drag City are Pavement, Royal Trux, Cynthia Dall, Faun Fables, Smog, Will Oldham, Jim O'Rourke, David Grubbs, U.S. Maple, Alasdair Roberts, Neil Michael Hagerty. Ghost, Papa M, White Magic, Silver Jews and Joanna Newsom. Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Pavement was one of the key American indie-rock bands of the 1990s, known for its oblique, original style and — at first anyway — for its influential lo-fi recording quality. ... The American indie rock band Royal Trux during their career from 1987 to 2000, was one of the most controversial bands on the underground rock scene, gaining their reputation in equal measures from extreme musical experiments, an outspoken lifestyle based on lots of hard drugs, sometimes outrageous stage performances, and... Cindy Dall is a photographer whose murder-glam aesthetic places her work firmly in the canon of other transgressive visual artists like Richard Kern and Nick Zedd. ... Faun Fables is the name of the atmospheric, slightly witchy psych folk music of Dawn McCarthy. ... The indie rock band Smog, later known as (Smog), is the alias of Bill Callahan, born in New Zealand, but raised in the United States. ... Will Oldham is a songwriter and musician from Louisville, Kentucky. ... Jim ORourke (born 1969) is an American musician and producer. ... Brooklyn-based guitarist/pianist/vocalist David Grubbs has played among others with Jim ORourke in Gastr Del Sol Categories: Stub ... Alasdair Roberts Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician. ... Neil Hagerty is the author of Public Works and a musician in Pussy Galore, Royal Trux and The Howling Hex. ... Papa M is the latest project of David Pajo, former bassist for seminal post-rockers Slint. ... Silver Jews is a music group. ... Joanna Newsom (born 1982 in Nevada City, CA) is a San Francisco harper (she is a self-declared folk harper as compared to a clasically trained harpist), singer and songwriter. ...

See also

• List of record labels
• List of independent record labels

The following is a partial list of record labels, both past and present. ... This is a list of record labels that are independent from the Big four record labels and typically specialize in different forms of indie rock, punk rock, and styles of alternative rock, electronica and hip-hop. ...

External link

• Official site (http://www.dragcity.com/)