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submitted by Nick Jan 23rd 2009 06:01 pm (www.pitchforkmedia.com)
Photo by Drew KatchenTuba-voiced depressive Bill Callahan used to call himself Smog, but he's been going by his given name ever since 2007's Woke on a Whaleheart. That change in moniker was supposed to signal a transition to happier music (or, at least, to less cripplingly bitter music), but in the time since Whaleheart, he broke up with Joanna Newsom, and now she's going out with fucking Andy Samberg. So we'll see just how committed to positivity Callahan still is on April 14, when his longtime label Drag City releases Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle, Callahan's second album under his government name. That grammatically convoluted title makes its own kind of sense. Eagles, after all, don't generally have to worry about losing their girlfriends to sketch comics.
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submitted by Nick Jul 1st 2011 09:00 pm (stereogum.com)
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...
The resurgence of Bill Callahan, a truly classic underground American songwriter, is appreciated — New Yorker and NY Times profiles; positive, historicizing Pitchfork review for newest dispatch Apocalypse — but it’s strange that his early, noisy, and especially dark albums have, more or less, been left out of the di...
submitted by Nick May 2nd 2011 08:00 pm (stereogum.com)
NAME: Bill CallahanPROGRESS REPORT: One of music’s most mysterious songwriters talks about the Apocalypse, explores writing songs with a quill, and addresses the apparent futility of hope. Bill Callahan is the kind of musician that — even if you don’t happen to enjoy or understand what he’s doing — makes music that is a...
submitted by Nick Mar 23rd 2011 11:00 pm (stereogum.com)
“Baby’s Breath” is the first taste from Bill Callahan’s upcoming album Apocalypse. The first sound you hear is a quick uptake of breath. The next several minutes are Callahan’s beautifully rich voice up close. The tempo speeds up and slows underneath his vocals, while he picks out a hypnotic, spa...
Yesterday Bill Callahan stopped into Columbus, Ohio's Used Kids Record Store to promote his fantastic new record Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle. The intimate environment suits "Rococo Zephyr," with its lingering fingerpicking and ripple ripple rippling riverside imagery. Stripped of parenthesis and out of his Smog, Bill sits here sporting a f...


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