Merge Records turns 20 this year and the celebration is well underway. Last week we told you about the five-day summer fest in North Carolina with Superchunk, Spoon, Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Destroyer,…   Read Story »

Bill Callahan settled in Plano, Texas last summer to record second solo LP Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle. He completed basic tracking in four sleepless days, then handed the tapes off to arranger…   Read Story »

NAME: Bill Callahan PROGRESS REPORT: Releasing Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City), his 13th album (his second as Bill Callahan) on April 14. Recorded at The Track in Plano, TX and…   Read Story »

What's that blowin' in the wind? Why it's the recently covered and screen-adapted Dylan acting the part of car salesman. Driving across the desert, rolling past cows and birds of prey, the…   Read Story »

Bill turned in our single favorite set of this year's SXSW, performing old Smog stuff and new tunes with Joanna Newsom, and we've been remiss in not giving you our premature evaluation of Woke On A…   Read Story »

As promised, here's our last photo roundup of the shows we hit and folks we pestered on the streets of Austin during this year's South By Southwest music festival. All in all we had a great time, saw…   Read Story »

Download Spoon's Flag Day concert at Englewood, CO's Gothic Theater here (via Brooklyn Vegan). Great setlist ... first encore was a cover of Bill Callahan's "Held." Here's the original: Spoon -…   Read Story »