Topic: Bill Callahan

The Oakland Raiders have reportedly landed on Dennis Allen as their new head coach.. . Allen, who spent this season as defensive coordinator of the ...

Bill Callahan - 2/8

Price: Phone: Annotation: Your favorite songwriter's favorite songwriter, Bill Callahan hid behind the alias Smog for 20 years, pioneering the art...

How Talented Are The Dallas Cowboys?

After years of disappointment, fans of the Dallas Cowboys tend to be a little morose about the talent level of the current team. Of late, a...
ESPN may have put the scripted plans for its own primetime on hold following the demise of short-lived dramas Tilt and Playmakers, but its...

Bay Area weekend music picks

0 . Here are The Chronicle's picks for nightclub happenings this weekend. . . Compiled by Kimberly Chun, Andrew Gilbert, Justin Gillett and Mosi...

BOTTOM 5

This article presents the author's opinion of the five worst college football performances of the week ending October 22, 2007. 38-0. That was the halftime score in Lincoln. To Bill Callahan's credit, he didn't flee the state.. Putting the ...

Bill Callahan at Mercy Lounge

Enigmatic indie-folk journeyman Bill Callahan's decision to jettison the Smog nom de plume in favor of his Christian name saw a graduation from his slipshod early lo-fi recordings to more fleshed-out, kaleidoscopic work. On 2009's Sometimes I Wish I Were ...

Show Me Love: The Best Date Concerts of the Summer

In the fall of 2001, Q and Not U helped put me back in a relationship with the woman I love. The latest incarnation of Justin Moyer's alter-ego, Edie Sedgwick ditches drum-machine power in favor of a full band, which allows ...

Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle by Bill Callahan, published by Drag City . Early on, when he was still calling himself Smog, indie rocker Bill Callahan buried his baritone voice beneath chugging, repetitive beats. Callahan expertly finds drama within his limited ...

Country for Old Men

When Bill Callahan started releasing albums in his early 20s as Smog, he was like a musical Methusaleh, making songs that were prematurely bitter and world-weary. Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle, Callahan's second project under his own name, is ...