Smog

'Join the Ritual' celebrates indie label Jagjaguwar's 25th anniversary and also features Angel Olsen covering Smog, The Besnard Lakes covering Slint, Pink Mountaintops covering Teenage Fanclub and more.

With Chicago band Dead Rider providing the backing, Smog‘s “Our Anniversary“ is turned into a towering rock song with a powerhouse Will Oldham vocal.

Listen to new songs by Vatican Shadow, June of 44 (John McEntire remix), Bill Callahan (rework of a Smog song), Dead To Fall, Big Joanie (Solange cover), Midlife, and more...

Bill Callahan's great 2019 album Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest was his first in six years, but he's already announced his next album will be out soon.

Bill Callahan is on tour now in support of his first album in six years -- the 20-song double album ’Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest’ -- and hit Brooklyn and Jersey City last week.

Bill Callahan has just announced a summer tour, which kicks off in June in California, and makes its way east, hitting L.A., San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, the NYC-area, Philly, DC, Chapel Hill, Atlanta and more...

Plus: Jon Glazer and Jon Benjamin, Jim White and more Hanukkah Night 5 fun.

Bill Callahan at the Allen Room in 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

Bill Callahan released his fourth post-Smog solo album, Dream River, via Drag City this week (9/17)...

wasn't supposed to be a full-length record, so I'm a little surprised to admit that it's my favorite Shearwater album so far. Somehow it slipped under the door...

Bill Callahan at the Allen Room in 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

Bill Callahan, who's been operating under his own name rather than his Smog moniker for a few years now, is returning this year with Dream River (due out 9/17 via Drag City), the followup to 2011's Apocalypse...