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For many years, Bill Callahan and David Berman were friends and peers. They both came up writing dour, oblique, poetic songs and releasing those songs in early-'90s Drag City Records releases -- Callahan with Smog, Berman with the Silver Jews. And while both of their paths diverged over the years, both of them reemerged triumphantly…
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Bill Callahan has been in the game a long, long time; he released his first album as Smog 23 years ago. But until this moment, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a press photo of him smiling. Take that as an indication, then, that Callahan’s next album won’t showcase the dark, mordant wit that made [...]
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Bill Callahan: Stream McSweeney’s Flaming Lips Radio Show Feat. Ed Droste, Will Sheff, Bill Callahan & More
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Here’s another thing that Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne can cross off of his increasingly insane to-do list: Record an hour-long radio drama about the human-head-shaped tumor on the inside of his leg. Coyne teamed up with McSweeney’s, KCRW, and producer Richard Parks to put together the show, entitled Wayne Coynes Human H...
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Bill Callahan: – “Heaven Help The Child” Video
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Indie survivor Bill Callahan recently covered “Heaven Help The Child,” a history-minded 1973 song from country-music outsider Mickey Newbury. And now Callahan’s version has a video, a black-and-white single-shot thing that transposes Callahan’s face with an image of a tree. The video itself is minimal, but...
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Bill Callahan: Covers Leonard Cohen
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The celebration of Leonard Cohen’s new album Old Ideas continues in the new issue of MOJO which comes with a disc of The Songs Of Leonard Cohen covers from the likes of Bill Callahan, Father John Misty, Cass McCombs, Field Music and others. Stream Callahan’s contribution below, a rendition of Cohen’s “So L...
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Bill Callahan: – “America!” Video
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Bill Callahan’s not-entirely-patriotic “America!” now has an entirely cool animated video just in time for Independence Day. It’s premiered as part of the fourth episode of Friday Night Somewhere, so skip ahead to 7m30s if you don’t have time to watch Cabby interview tattoo artist James Jacobs. A...
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