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Bill Callahan Moves LP Release Date Up, Announces Tour

The end is nearer! Apocalypse, the forthcoming album from Bill Callahan, will hit shelves sooner that expected. Originally set for release on April 19, the album will now be available a few weeks earlier on April 5. Apocalypse is the third album by Callahan since he dropped the Smog moniker after the release of A River Ain’t Too Much to Love in 2005....  read more

Bill Callahan Unleashes the Apocalypse

After a recording a several albums under his own name, Bill Callahan seems to have put his old stage moniker, Smog, to rest. The lo-fi songwriter will be putting out Apocalypse, his third Bill Callahan record, this spring. The upcoming release will be Callahan’s first new work since 2009’s excellent Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle....  read more

Watch Gil Scott-Heron Cover Smog

Gil Scott-Heron may not be new here, but a new video of him covering a song from D.C. indie-folk singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, aka Smog, proves he’s more than willing to try new things....  read more

Bill Callahan Kicks Off Club Tour in June

Singer-songwriter/folkie Bill Callahan, whom you may know also know as Smog, has announced a June tour in support of his new album, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle....  read more

Green-Collar Rock: Great Nature Songs Vol. 1 (Water)

With this week's inauguration of new President Barack Obama, there's been a lot of talk about green-collar jobs and making long-term investments by implementing environmentally sound policies now. It got me thinking about what we're protecting by doing this—first and foremost, the health and well-being of ourselves and future generations. But it's also about preserving this beautiful natural world we inhabit. There is no shortage of amazing songs that celebrate or draw from this beauty. Classics like John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" and The Beatles' "Blackbird" come immediately to mind, but there are so many more. Here are a few favorites,...  read more

Drag City dredges archives for celebration of art and music

[Above: Detail of Emily Price's original embroidery for the cover of Joanna Newsom's The Milk-Eyed Mender.]Launched in 1989 and now home to time-honored, rock-solid acts including the Silver Jews, The Red Krayola, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and comic freak Neil Hamburger, Chicago's Drag City is a label with a distinct personality: Playful, colorful and amorphous, but weary of the pains and struggles of the world that cheery pop music can't mask. In that same vein of duality, Drag City isn't just about music, but also the visual art with which it runs hand in hand: Album covers, show posters, even the...  read more

Bill Callahan sheds Smog for latest release

After a dozen albums under the moniker Smog, experimental singer-songwriter Bill Callahan has at last shed his polluted past and embraced the name his mother gave him. Complete with gospel backing vocals from Deani Pugh-Flemmings of the Olivet Baptist Church, Callahan’s Woke on a Whaleheart will hit stores April 17 courtesy of Drag City. Woke on a Whaleheart tracklist: 1. From the Rivers to the Oceans 2. Footprints 3. Diamond Dancer 4. Sycamore 5. The Wheel 6. Honeymoon Child 7. Day 8. Night 9. A Man Needs a Woman or a Man to be a Man Related links: Bill Callahan...  read more

Smog

Listening to his records, you might not think Smog's Bill Callahan...  read more

Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love

On his latest modern antique, Smog reprises his best roles—the miniaturist, the naturalist, the hyperrealist...  read more