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TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Ry Cooder’: a track for a legend, the penultimate ‘gold’

WE REALLY are that far down the line toward the end of the summer. Bill Callahan has released a track for Monday for nine consecutive weeks now ahead of Gold…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Cowboy’: whisky, water and whistlin’ our tired bones home

IT’S KINDA hard to believe that Bill has led us through the summer like an Americana pied piper, Monday by Monday, sprinkling the grey start of the week with a…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan makes it seven over ‘Breakfast’

DRAG CITY aren’t too far off the mark when they say that “over the past month, we suddenly love Monday … the best part of waking up is a new Bill…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Let’s Move to the Country’: Bill out-smogs himself

BESIDES being a songwriter we should grasp close to our chests, we’ve seen time and time again this summer that Bill Callahan has an incredible capacity to surprise. First he…

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SEE: No Age – ‘Turned To String’: new video from low-slung noise rockers

SO LOOK, it’s not even news anymore: 2020, and the world is busy going to hell in a handcart. So just what is a scuzzily excellent, guitar-totin’ US alt.rock band…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Box of Chocolates – ‘Fearful Symmetry’: early Brooklyn stirrings from Will Oldham, et al

EVERY era of music has those great, lost nuggets which slip out, are adored by the knowing few, lost to the many; are whispered about and traded for ever-inflating sums…

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TRACK: A quintet from Bill Callahan with ‘The Mackenzies’: not a dry eye in the house

IT’S become a lovely little start-of-the-week tradition through the dead centre of this mournful summer: the Monday teasing of another new Bill Callahan track ahead of September’s Gold Record. And…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan makes it a Monday quartet with ‘Protest Song’

BILL CALLAHAN’S ongoing Monday afternoon pledge to gift us a song from his September Gold Record reached its fourth instalment today, with the downhome and evocative porchside “Protest Song”. Today’s…

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SEE: No Age – ‘Smoothie Kings’: abstract shapes and lofi beauty

UNORTHODOX former Sub Pop noiseniks No Age have got through some virusy distribution teething troubles and finally their new album Goons Be Gone, their second for new housekeepers Drag City,…

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TRACK: It’s Monday, it’s a beautiful third from Bill Callahan – ’35’

IT’S MONDAY: we’re in the groove now, and we know to expect a little nugget from Bill Callahan, as he previews September’s Gold Record track by track on a weekly…

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