Bill MacKay

Drag City announces the 10th-anniversary vinyl reissue of Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker’s hypnotic debut, Land of Plenty, arriving September 26th. Recorded live during their famed 2015 Chicago residency, the album showcases the duo’s telepathic guitar interplay. To celebrate, a new music video for the title track has been released, offering a fresh look at this seminal work.

Following last year’s ‘Locust Land’, his most diverse album yet, Bill MacKay shares details of his EU tour, including Ireland co-headline dates with Brigid Mae Power and a London date with labelmate Six Organs of Admittance.

Locust Land, Bill MacKay’s third solo outing for Drag City, is his most diverse yet, but also his most harmonious and satisfying, which is high praise, considering the quality of his past releases.

We met with guitarist Bill MacKay to discuss Locust Land, his third long player for Drag City. The album’s focus and detail shout confidence and clarity, and it features some of the most driving and uptempo songs he’s ever written.

Taken from his new album Locust Land, listen to Bill MacKay’s new single ‘Keeping In Time’, which finds MacKay employing a searching voice to explore themes of fate and love. He has also announced a UK date at London’s Café OTO on 4th September.

Taken from his new album Locust Land, Bill MacKay shares his second single, ‘Glow Drift’, on which he locks into a relatable psychedelic groove with Mikel Patrick Avery and Sam Wagster. Intelligence and imagination are the order of the day for these sonic explorers.

Bill Mackay announces his new solo album ‘Locust Land’ and shares his lead single “When I Was Here”, a surging, blistering, blues-inflected jam with a lyric so sweet it stings. Watch the accompanying video, Directed and edited by Mikel Patrick Avery.

Take a bow Bill Mackay and Cooper Crain – BCMC’s Foreign Smokes is like one continual experimental, inquisitive journey, filled with an appealing freshness and dynamism – a strange and thrilling tonic.

Featuring three of Chicago’s biggest hitters – Douglas McCombs, Bill MacKay & Charles Rumback – Black Duck is a dynamic, experimental set of instrumentals that oozes the kind of confidence you would hope for from such a power trio.

Our Tune of the Day is ‘Second Guess’, the latest single from Chicago trio Black Duck, featuring Douglas McCombs, Bill MacKay and Charles Rumback. It’s taken from their self-titled debut album, out on June 23rd via Thrill Jockey.

Bill Mackay and Nathan Bowles ‘Keys’ was an album we were excited about and it delivers at every turn. An engaging album with a glorious set of instrumentals and sang numbers. Plus new video ‘Dowsing’.

Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles offer us a further gem from their forthcoming ‘Keys’ as they dip into the Country gospel songbook of E.C. and Orna Ball of Rugby, VA for their latest single.