anticipate APOCALYPSE, the new bill callahan record

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Apocalypse is a seven-song set that was recorded live in the studio. Apparently, the collection features raw, off-the-floor takes with “No cuts! Delectables and guts!”

The western theme runs whole hog in the press release, describing the ol’ timey ways in which Callahan crafted the album.

“Callahan, riding on the back of his band, corrals them all and guides them single-handedly through the Valley with love and ferocity,” it says of his new tunes.

A canyon-travelling album, Apocalypse rounds up a number of cuts that speak of days long past, and will have you wondering, “What has really happened in the last 100 years.” Sounds kind of rustic.

Apocalypse tracklisting:

1. “Drover”
2. “Baby’s Breath”
3. “America!”
4. “Universal Applicant”
5. “Riding For The Feeling”
6. “Free’s”
7. “One Fine Morning”

your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 13:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

3. “America!”

your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 13:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

*registers anticipation*

just sayin, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 13:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

i think it should be anticipated in a big way. i did that with whaleheart, picked it up on release day and took it back to the store the day later ("oh bill", i said, despondent), although i like it now.

kinda wish the record was called riding for the feeling

your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 13:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yes, I am looking forward to this.

Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 13:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Thursday, 10 March 2011 20:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

at this point I pretty much leave a spot on the year-end list for Callahan as soon as I hear he's going to release an album

five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 10 March 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

i am not so much a 'lyrics guy' but i think i would buy bill callahan lps, now, just to see where he's at. i remember after woke on a whaleheart had been going around and around awhile, hearing to family is all you can do. like it's genuinely going to assist my day to day life to have this kind of thing to listen to for reference.

your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

at this point I pretty much leave a spot on the year-end list for Callahan as soon as I hear he's going to release an album

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:35 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

me too

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

not sure about that track.

jed_, Thursday, 24 March 2011 12:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

i like it! it grows as it goes on. it actually kinda reminded me of recent joanna newsom stuff, in some of its slight detours, the way it holds together. i heard the first side of this record; the sound is sorta akin to that santa maria cover he did a while back. it has some of the stomp he has when you see him play, maybe compared to the composure of the last record.

your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Thursday, 24 March 2011 12:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

i can definitely see that it may click for me at some point.

jed_, Thursday, 24 March 2011 12:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

i've only heard it sort of in passing but it unfurls. the buzzy, loose, electric-guitar-slingin' setup suits him pretty well. only downside is the approach to songform seems weirdly uninquisative on first listen.

your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Thursday, 24 March 2011 12:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

I like it too! It's loose in terms of guitar playing and structure, and there are quite some nice sounding things going on in the background that I haven't identified yet.

La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 24 March 2011 13:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

this leaked. am psyched. will buy.

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 25 March 2011 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

btw that's a marmot in the background

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 25 March 2011 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

feelin this

just sayin, Saturday, 26 March 2011 12:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

(only half way thru so far)

just sayin, Saturday, 26 March 2011 12:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

I am LOVING "America!"

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 28 March 2011 00:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

i watched david letterman. in australia

reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 28 March 2011 01:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

Captain Kristofferson
Buck Sergeant Newbury
Leatherneck Jones
Sergeant Cash

What an Army
What an Air Force
What a Marines
America!

Moreno, Monday, 28 March 2011 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

that song sounds like filler to me.

by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 19:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

kind of funny though

by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 19:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

Do you mean judging only by the lyrics? Have you heard the song? Because it's really great and unlike anything Callahan has done. Not filler at all. It's got this propulsive guitar / rhythm thing that makes it sound like it was produced by The Bomb Squad.

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 21:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

don't really know if i'm into this album :( i love callahan but every once in a while he puts out an album that just leaves me cold, and i think this might be one of those. still can't get into "woke on a whaleheart" at all either. though i didn't like "rain on lens" at first and it grew on me eventually so maybe this one will just take time.

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 14:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

i still have never really taken to 'rain on lens' although i did eventually go back and realize it wasn't awful like i thought. i liked 'whaleheart' way better than 'eagle' but i'm happy to wait on the latter.

j., Wednesday, 30 March 2011 14:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

totally agree with n/a esp. on the rain on lens U-turn. i'm actually totally gutted that i don't love this. the tack i like most is "Riding for the Feeling" which is the one that sounds like it could have fit most comfortably on "...An Eagle". i wasn't looking for a re-run of that album, though, i was excited by the title and actually anticipating something a bit MORE different.

jed_, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 21:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

so this callahan is coming out 5 April now, right?

hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 21:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

It's out now, on CD, with the LP to follow in a few weeks. Release got brought forward because it leaked.

nate woolls, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 21:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

Do you mean judging only by the lyrics? Have you heard the song?

dude i heard the album. "america" just seems kind of a half-assed, a few good jokes and that's it. it doesn't develop (lyrically or musically).

i still can't really get into rain on lens but supper, which a lot of folks seem to have slept on, is his best IMO.

by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 31 March 2011 07:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

+ it doesn't sound anything like the bomb squad. it sounds like something from knock knock, though.

by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 31 March 2011 07:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

i still can't really get into rain on lens but supper, which a lot of folks seem to have slept on, is his best IMO.

supper is him at the top of his game imo. so tightly controlled.
i just listenened to the first side of this, to preserve some suspense for getting the LP, & get the knock knock thing - like america as no dancing or whatever. i'm still super excited, ilx ambivalence forthcoming. jed: it's been a bad year for you!, underwhelming weerasethakul & smog.

your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Thursday, 31 March 2011 09:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

"Supper" is definitely one of the best. My favorites of his albums are the ones that exude warmth, I don't really know how else to describe it. Supper, A River Ain't Too Much to Love, and Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle are the big three in terms of warmth for me. Though with Supper part of it might just be the nice red-orange album cover.

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 31 March 2011 12:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

listened to Supper again this morning and it's one of his funniest albums. it has lots of jokes.

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 31 March 2011 19:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

one of my favorite bill callahan lines is "i never use doors no mores"

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 1 April 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

all his albums have a mix of warmth and ironic detachment, no? -- that's one thing that makes him interesting. that said, i know what you mean about e.g. "feather by feather" and "guiding light."

some of recent songs that are nominally inspirational or sincere are so straightforwardly platitudinous that you have to imagine he's taking the piss a little bit. he's very hard to "read" though...

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 1 April 2011 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

also is this his prog album or something? seven songs, averaging almost six minutes!

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 1 April 2011 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

i never use doors no mores"

my favourite on that is the following line, "i never use stairs, just trees" which is a v vivid image and amusingly ridiculous. are you talking about woke on a whaleheart with the "straightforwardly platitudinous" thing? i remember a quasi-religious theme on that record which stuck in my craw a bit although i don't know that album well enough to go into any detail and, in fact, i don't think i'll ever return to it. i thought the faux-country thing he was doing there was direction at the time of the name change which is why "... and eagle" was such a surprise. i should have know well enough that he doesn't do "directions", i could fully see him making another dour and angry record like "rain on lens" soon.

jed_, Friday, 1 April 2011 20:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah there are a bunch of those songs on whaleheart but some on eagle as well, no? and on river.

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 1 April 2011 23:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

i don't think i'd ever heard a bill callahan song before, but i just heard "baby's breath" and it's great. i like how it gives the impression of looseness, with all the little time & feel changes, but it's still really well-produced & arranged.

then i listened to a couple songs from his previous record and they didn't grab me the same way (honestly i didn't give them much of a chance though).

adult music person (Jordan), Monday, 4 April 2011 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

Apocalypse seems a lot looser in general than his other recent albums, but if you like "Baby's Breath" you might like the rest of it

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 4 April 2011 14:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

just now listening to this (totally behind, i know!): http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/luisterpaal/44622033#luisterpaal.44622033
sounds really good! i like the loose vibe. "free's" kinda sounds like van morrison!

tylerw, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 15:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

also is this his prog album or something? seven songs, averaging almost six minutes!

j. newsom influence finally showing itself in the world.

j., Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

missed the lion in Eid Ma Clack Shaw

Moreno, Friday, 15 April 2011 14:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

Listening to this now and enjoying it. I like that he's getting more dynamic with each release.

Moodles, Friday, 15 April 2011 14:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

anyone read the SFJ article?

My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 April 2011 14:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah i thought it was pretty eh

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 15 April 2011 14:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

seemed weird to mention Fred Neil and Merle Haggard as references but not Leonard Cohen? trying to keep it all american i guess.

agree with the resonant frequency article on pfork that this album sounds amazing.

Moreno, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

For some reason that one just hasn't clicked for me yet.

Moodles, Thursday, 12 May 2011 13:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

did anyone read the wire review of this record! total pan -- and an ILX diss? something about how will oldham and callahan should have their credentials revoked & be banished along with iron and wine and bright eyes(!? lol) to ILX. kind of a surprisingly clueless review for the wire imo.

tylerw, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Perhaps, it's time to revoke the canonical status of persistent underachievers such as Callahan and Will Oldham (don't even get me started on Iron & Wine and Bright Eyes) and banish them to ILX for good, diverting our attention more fulsomely towards artists with genuinely inquisitive approaches to traditional songform, whether this means James Blake and Jamie Woon or Alex Tucker and Richard Youngs.

I don't think he's associated iron & wine / bright eyes w/ ilx, just callahan and oldman

iatee, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

still an idiot obv

iatee, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

ah, right. yeah, the whole review was fairly dumb.

tylerw, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah it was talked abt in the wire thread iirc

just sayin, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

Link?

lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

schlump, i saw him a few weeks ago in glasgow. probably the best i've ever seen him perform. i can't get over just how good his voice sounds these days. the drummer was absolutely fantastic too, i agree, very creative and unique; sometimes very spare, sometimes extremely intense. full marks to that guy.

i like this album a lot now which is pretty much the first time i've changed my mind about one of his records.

jed_, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

artists with genuinely inquisitive approaches to traditional songform, whether this means James Blake and Jamie Woon

james blake's "songs" are utterly pitiful. jamie woon's album is one of my favourite records for a long time, he's great (i think he's going to be huge)... but his approach to "songform" is much more traditional and generic than bill callahan's.

jed_, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

schlump, i saw him a few weeks ago in glasgow. probably the best i've ever seen him perform. i can't get over just how good his voice sounds these days. the drummer was absolutely fantastic too, i agree, very creative and unique; sometimes very spare, sometimes extremely intense. full marks to that guy.

yeah: i think i said somewhere, the thing about his voice being this deep wondrous thing really snuck up on me, & i wouldn't have noticed a concerted change over the past ten years without someone drawing attention to it (i guess i always listen to the newest one?, i don't know). but seeing him sing, this time around, holding the room with a stare and intoning: yeah. one of the things that is maybe me getting too deep, about smog, or more particularly about the branded bill callahan records (& a river), is the kind of baggage that goes with them, with the fact that you're listening to something that's this mix of v talkative, v expressive and yet v open-ended and ambiguous material, all of which winds through the small things that represent bigger, life stuff, like animals etc. i have sometimes caught myself in moments of communion aware that there's this thing that i guess people got from johnny cash, and that is tangled up in manhood and masculinity and the role you're filling when you align yourself with a guy-telling-truths-about-livin', etc. just: his voice is so authoritative, and imbues what he's saying with a feeling of truth, and it's so perfectly coupled with what he's singing about, now. it makes me feel like the guys who'd dig early 2000s popular metal who would permit themselves to cry when they heard one of the withered acoustic slow-jams that the groups would put out. or like the old guy in the background of that townes van zandt waiting around to die clip.

the drummer, i was thinking about the conversation that went on upthread a while ago and trying to hone in on what made neal morgan so preferable to thor, to me. i wonder if it's a timing thing, again; like i associate thor with the smog stuff on whaleheart that pounds and rolls and stomps, that has the kinda (not pejoratively) 'leaden' kick-drum-heavy smog drumming that some people hate. and what was neat about NM was that it was so peppery & not locked down and was complementing what he was saying line for line (kinda like michael stuart, maybe, on laughing stock). just real intuitive & instep with the fact that when you see smog play you're watching lines unfurl one after the next.

i haven't heard the jamie woon LP, you make me wanna!
& as for spinning around on apocalypse!, i think while it does sorta split into the batches people have flagged up above - like the more song-y ones and then the slightly less focused stuff on side two, i'd feel rushed trying to judge it now because it takes me a while to get a handle on where he's going and what he's talking about. side two maybe suffers from the fact that the songs on the first side are fully formed and direct (reading baby's breath as an extended metaphor is still slaying me), and that isn't really what he's shooting for on the looser stuff.

stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 23:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

quickly, as i'm listening to it right now, i have to say that

oh the lucky suckle teat
others chaw pig knuckle meat

is pretty damn impressive.

jed_, Sunday, 12 June 2011 01:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

&

Rumpus: Do you read much poetry?
Callahan:I’m not a poetry guy. I don’t understand most of it... I don’t want to be teased with feathers by someone tittering in a harlequin mask hiding behind a pillar

but "Universal Applicant" is as dense and puzzling as most of the poetry i've read. i mean that as a compliment.

jed_, Sunday, 12 June 2011 02:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'm pretty sure he reads some poetry, in fact i've heard him talk about it. bill be playin. actually his lyrics have a lot of affinities with lots of modern blank verse. to the point where i could imagine him having gone to the iowa writers program or something. not a criticism or a compliment, just an observation.

lol @ the reviewer thinking he sounds smarter using the compound word "songform." also what's so traditional about callahan? or are all "songs" traditional to this dude?
although this new LP isn't bill's best he is incredibly inventive in lots of subtle and not-so-subtle ways. listen to his singing! he is an incredible singer.
also i doubt there's more bill love on ILX than anywhere else on the interwebs. he's a popular dude.

by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

iirc there was a recent interview in which he got asked about poetry & was all, i like that white donkeys guy!, unsure if tate was poetry or not. i don't have any hesitation in calling bill a poet, but for knowing that he is more prominently the thing he is*; taking the words alone strips them of the delivery that adds a whole other layer.

who constitutes modern blank verse, amateurist? i would love tips on this.

* none of the words for this are appealing, obviously, 'singer-songwriter' & all.

stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

this is a good wednesday record

devoted to boats (schlump), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

ok, i will put it on tonight then. i haven't listened to it yet. callahan's voice is a wondrous thing indeed. but sometimes it grates as it is too much. did he do something to his voice or is his bass natural? is he a smoker maybe?

alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

affirmative callahan is a smoker, godspeed on your way to a surefire baritone

devoted to boats (schlump), Thursday, 23 June 2011 01:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

sometimes his vocals in live performance can get too arch, but that doesn't happen too often on record.

by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 23 June 2011 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

amazing show last night in denver, my first time seeing him. almost a two hour set! he really is a great performer, something i wasn't totally expecting. commands the stage! even took requests during the encore, and closed with mine, "Sycamore". beautiful.

tylerw, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

chicago show asshole otm, smog otm, drummer otm

neo-realist shit i ever wrote (schlump), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 10:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

show in brooklyn the other night was awesome. favorite bit was during the well when there was a pause and he said "i forget the next line" an audience member screamed out a lyric and bill replied "no that comes later" Then later in the song, while the band was still plugging away, he commented that the song was "taking forever tonight"

dude's voice is arresting and kinda transfixing. band was hot too, has that guy played guitar on any of his albums?

mizzell, Thursday, 14 July 2011 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Matt Kinsey was his name and he was shit-hot, on some intergalactic swamp twang tone. Joanna Newsom's drummer (whose name escapes me) was behind the kit. such nuanced stellar playing from them and a great show.

beta blog, Thursday, 14 July 2011 17:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah his band was great -- who needs a bass player! Callahan was better than I expected on classical guitar too.

tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah the nasty tone his guitarist was pulling off was great. sort of a classic rock thing.

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 15 July 2011 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

sort of a classic rock thing.

totally. totally a part of the record, too, that kinda longing slightly wailing guitar, the electric part on riding for the feeling.

Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Friday, 15 July 2011 22:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

his show in boston the other night was fantastic. it restored my interest in going to see shows—not one iPhone in the air, nobody texting, the sound was perfect. his music is so wonderfully minimal and full of intention... stoic... transfixing is a good word.

nerve_pylon, Friday, 15 July 2011 22:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, even though you could probably describe callahan's stage presence as "aloof," it sort of works for him -- like he sets the right tone for the live show. I had close to the same experience (maybe a few iphones) in Denver -- packed crowd, but really quiet and into it.

tylerw, Friday, 15 July 2011 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

it restored my interest in going to see shows

yeah: like there is something about it that so resembles the platonic idea of going to see like, lol, a songstrel play his songs, rather than your favourite musician possibly play one of your favourite of his songs. you're really listening, rather than remembering or tracking or appreciating or anticipating. there's a video on some site of him playing one fine morning in front of a crowd, & you can see it ringing out better than it does on the lp, because it's hitting people one line at a time - i can't explain it but the way it's unfolding feels so charged & ephemeral, seeing him.

Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Friday, 15 July 2011 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

^ yes, well put.

nerve_pylon, Friday, 15 July 2011 23:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

he's always been like that. i remember a show ca. 1997–8, he actually showed up early (wtf) and was drinking at the bar, looking into space w/ a 100-yard stare. nobody dared approach him.

by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

"like that" -- aloof, stoic, whatever

just makes his droll humor stand out. at the show a few weeks ago, when one sort of embarrasingly overenthusiastic dancer dude stopped to relax/get a beer, and another dude started doing something similar, bill just said, "looks like we're at a shift change."

by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol

XP: at both of those stories!

bernard snowy, Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

makin' me regret not going to the show he's playing here tonight but MONEY Y'ALL

bernard snowy, Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

that aloofness is why i thought it was weird he asked for requests, and then embarrassed when people were shrieking out song names. he doesn't seem like someone who should take requests.'][[[[[[[[[[iiii

congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

sorry my daughter typed that last part.

congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

heard a story about an old show when people were hollering for requests, he'd been silent all night & then stepped up to the mic to say:

is anyone willing
to die
for their request

Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Saturday, 16 July 2011 00:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

that's the best concert banter i've ever heard

by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

i feel like callahan's the sort of ornery dude who'd ask for requests and then systematically ignore all of them.

by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

i laughed every time he said "I Thank You" at the show. classic.
but where DID that guitarist come from anyway?

nerve_pylon, Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

i think i wrote this on another thread, but after he asked for requests and people were screaming song titles for a couple of minutes, he said "i'm glad you guys don't write the set list."

congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

his funny comment at my show was: "I haven't played here in many years ... but I thought about you ... the whole time I was gone."

tylerw, Saturday, 16 July 2011 04:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

he should do a comedy album.

by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 16 July 2011 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

"take my cryptic poeticism ... please!"

by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 16 July 2011 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Oh yeah, so like I said on the other thread I realized this album is amazing. I actually bought it mainly because the record store clerk was cute and playing it, but it's amazing.

pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Monday, 31 October 2011 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

would smog clerk

Local Christian Blues (schlump), Monday, 31 October 2011 10:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/650397224/apocalypse-a-bill-callahan-tour-film

Anyone else pledge? Seems an unlikely subject for a tour film, Bill being famously reticent and all, but what do I know? I just wish there was an actual, you know, DVD. Ah well. I pledged for the mix CD. That's gonna be awesome.

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol @ Thursday, February 9, at 8:30
tUnE-yArDs

Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

ha that program is classic

congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

So that concert film/road doc is finished. Saw it in Baltimore this past weekend with the director and Bill in attendance. It was quite good! She caught some beautiful footage. Bill played a nice short little set after the screening. I’m assuming there will be a DVD/BluRay release at some point in the not-do-distant future.

circa1916, Monday, 27 August 2012 17:36 (8 months ago) Permalink


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