Sep 12, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Bill Callahan has shared a new single, “Coyotes.” It is the first release from his forthcoming album, YTI⅃AƎЯ, which will be out on October 14 via Drag City. More

Aug 15, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Bill Callahan has announced the release of a new album, YTI⅃AƎЯ, which will be out on October 14 via Drag City. More

Nov 02, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Squid have shared a cover of Bill Callahan’s 2011 song “America!” The release comes just ahead of their upcoming sold-out U.S. tour. More

Sep 09, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bill Callahan released a new album, Gold Record, last week via Drag City. Now he has done a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert for NPR Music, performing four songs remotely from outside his home. More

Aug 24, 2020 By Samantha Small

The time has finally come: Bill Callahan is releasing his new album, Gold Record, next week via Drag City. For the last two and half months Callahan has released a new track every. Single. Monday. This week, he offers his final gift, the ninth track out of ten: “Ry Cooder.” Listen below. More

Aug 17, 2020 By Samantha Small

Last year Bill Callahan released Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest—his first album in six years. Now, he’s got another coming out September 4th: Gold Record, out via Drag City. And as said in the “Cowboy Commercial”—“Now he’s putting out a song every week on the Internet.” This week we have “Cowboy.” More

Aug 10, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bill Callahan has been sharing a new song every Monday morning in the run up to the release of his new album, Gold Record—due out September 4 via Drag City—and here’s this week’s selection: “Breakfast.” Callahan and Drag City have partnered with the coffee roasters Four Letter Word for a special coffee blend tied to the song and named after it. More

Aug 03, 2020 By Samantha Small

Happy Bill Callahan Monday! For the past few weeks or so the singer/songwriter has released a new track every morning on the first day of the week. And today’s is extra special. We now have “Let’s Move to the Country,” a reimaged cover of a Smog track (Callahan’s old band) from their 1999 LP Knock Knock. But for Callahan’s forthcoming LP Gold Record—due out September 4 via Drag City—we get the gentle musings of just Callahan, giving the song a whole new meaning. More

Jul 27, 2020 By Samantha Small

Did you mark your calendars? It’s Monday again, which means here comes another Bill Callahan track. This time we’re delivered “The Mackenzies,” the fifth single from Callahan’s forthcoming LP, Gold Record, due out September 4 via Drag City. He’s sharing a different song from the album every Monday up until the release date. More

Jul 20, 2020 By Samantha Small

Every Monday, Bill Callahan is releasing a new song from his forthcoming album Gold Record, out September 4 via Drag City. Today’s tune is the bluesy “Protest Song.” Listen to it below. More

Jul 13, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bill Callahan is releasing a new album, Gold Record, on September 4 via Drag City. Callahan will be releasing a new single from the album every Monday up until the release date and now he has shared its third single, “35,” in which he sings that he “can’t see myself in the books that I read, these days/Used to be I saw myself on every single page.” More

Jul 06, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bill Callahan is releasing a new album, Gold Record, on September 4 via Drag City. Callahan will be releasing a new single from the album every Monday up until the release date and now he has shared “Another Song.” More

Jul 03, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Stephen Axeman)

Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2020. Tomorrow is Independence Day here in America, but it’s hard to feel overly patriotic this year with the Trump administration continuing to botch the response to the pandemic and with so much to fix in this country—including systemic racism, police brutality, gun reform, climate change, and wealth inequality, to name just a handful of challenges. More

Jun 29, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bill Callahan is releasing a new album, Gold Record, on September 4 via Drag City. It was announced last week and now he has shared the first single from it, “Pigeons.” It humorously opens with Callahan declaring “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” More

Oct 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bill Callahan released a new album, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, in June via Drag City. Now he has shared an Arturo Baston-directed animated video for the album’s “Call Me Anything.” More

Jun 06, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bill Callahan is releasing a new album, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, on June 14 via Drag City. It’s his first album in six years, since 2013’s Dream River. He’s been releasing the album in chunks, one side of the double vinyl version at a time. Now he has shared side three, which is five more new songs from it: “Confederate Jasmine,” “Call Me Anything,” “Son of the Sea,” “Camels,” and “Circles.” More

May 30, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bill Callahan is releasing a new album, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, on June 14 via Drag City. It’s his first album in six years, since 2013’s Dream River. Last week he shared six new songs from it, the entity of side one of the vinyl version of the album. Now he has shared side two, which is five more songs: “747,” “Watch Me Get Married,” “Young Icarus,” “Released,” and “What Comes After Certainty.” More

May 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. Last week we only had a Top 7 instead of our usual Top 10 and this week it’s only a little better with a Top 8. More

May 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bill Callahan is releasing a new album, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, on June 14 via Drag City. It’s his first album in six years, since 2013’s Dream River. When the album was announced no new songs from it were shared, but now he’s more than made up for that, sharing six new songs today. In other words he’s shared side one of the vinyl version of the album. The songs include “The Ballad of the Hulk,” which references the Marvel Comics superhero and the 1970s TV show. More

May 02, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bill Callahan has announced a new album, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, which is his first in six years, since 2013’s Dream River. It’s due out June 14 via Drag City and features 20 songs. More

Dec 26, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Take a listen as How to Dress Well’s Tom Krell does his best Smog impression. More

May 11, 2011 By John Everhart

Bill Callahan has unveiled the video for Apocalypse standout track “Riding for the Feeling.” We have the clip. More

Sep 16, 2013 By Austin Trunick

Another odd-numbered year, another Bill Callahan long player. His newest, Dream River, is 40 mellow minutes of the singer in a downtempo, reserved mode. More