For 25 years, Chicago-based indie label Drag City Records has been home to an eclectic array of artists, having championed the unlikeliest of acts and reissued music that might have otherwise been forgotten. Here, sales director Rian Murphy tells Music Week about what makes Drag City, Drag City.

While many successful indie labels have cashed in their assets for dollars and their creative control for the marketing might of a major, experimental indie label Drag City refuses to give up ...