Fun fact about Calexico: you can buy really awesome Dia de los Muertos paper flags on their website! Fact #2: John (of the band) recently composed a film score for Taiwanese filmmaker Peter Chang's Man with a Movie Camera-esque video portrait of Tokyo, Toyko Is Dreaming, which premiered about a month ago at a film festival in England. Whoa, what's this? Another fact? YES. Here goes: Calexico is...
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Calexico's new tour-only CD will be a live one, from the band's Carried to Dust tour last fall. Always excellent live, Calexico just wrapped up a very well-received tour with Andrew Bird. (And recorded an album with Tom Russell.)Ancienne Belgique - Live In Brussels 2008 features 14 songs and is only available on Calexico's Web site or at shows.But the band did post four of the songs to YouTube as
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They started off as mere "former members" of Giant Sand, branching off into the Friends of Dean Martinez. From there, it was onwards and upwards to the likes of Richard Buckner and Victoria Williams, also collaborating with Lisa Germano, Iron & Wine's Sam Beam, Neko Case, and so many beautiful others. This is Calexico we're talking about here — namely founding members Joey Burns and John Conver.
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Lookee here at my picks for keeping yourself out of trouble this week:Calexico w. Bowerbirds, Nov. 18th, The PhoenixOne of the leading lights in alt/country/folk along with a brilliant band on the rise.Calexico's MyspaceBowerbirds' MyspaceM83, Nov. 20th, The Opera HouseThe latest musical export from France, M83 will appeal to fans of Air and The Streets.M83's Myspace
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Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona based rock band, who are known for their eclectic repertoire, varying from americana to indie and alternative to folk. Although the variety of styles, Calexico's music always echoes the atmosphere of the deep American South and Mexico.Comprising of core-members Joey Burns and John Convertino Calexico came into existence in 1996, after releasing the debut LP Spoke....
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When I first read Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' I remember thinking: a. I hope they make a movie of this, and b. I hope Calexico makes the soundtrack. I found out shortly thereafter that they were making a movie of it, and 'they' were the Coen Brothers. Killer! Calexico didn't do the [...]
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Very rarely have I come across a CD so evocative of time and place as Calexico's stunningly gorgeous offering, Carried to Dust.Named for a border town along the California/Mexico line, Calexico's music is as vast and expansive as the chaparral desert. Haunting and desolate, Calexico, the city, is a lost strip of population, 120 miles east of San Diego, 70 miles west of Yuma, Arizona and officia...
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It's hard to listen to Calexico and not imagine yourself wandering in solitude amongst cacti and coyotes outside of some dried up, deserted border town on your quest for self-realization, actualization or whatever you call "finding yourself." The rolling drums prod the tumbleweeds along and the whispery vocals canvas the star-ridden night sky. If you [...]
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[09-27-2008] I had a decision to make. Either see My Morning Jacket, "the world's greatest live band," or saddle up and catch Calexico. It really is a quandary when two bands you like play on the same night, but I'd seen Jim James' heroics this past summer at Bonnaroo while never catching a proper Calexico tour (I saw them tour with Iron and Wine). I decided that spending the evening with Joey...
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On Carried To Dust, Calexico has continued their tradition of piecing together emotions, connections, and landscapes to reflect on themselves and the world around them. There may be songs that aren't my cup of joe, but they are all well written and extensively thought out compositions. All this is driven from where they are in [...]
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From "Carried To Dust" - out on Quarterstick Records (9/09/08). CALEXICO, Carried To Dust (Touch & Go) Official Site | MySpace | Samples (Amazon) One of the best blends of Mexican and Texas/Arizona soundscapes you'll hear, Calexico is back. This is classic convertible Ford Mustang driving through the desert music. Picture giant cacti zooming by [...]
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Artist: CalexicoAlbum: Carried To DustLabel: City SlangLink: www.myspace.com/casadecalexicoMaybe it’s the fact that in a month or so i’ll be heading into that crazy place we call Mexico but this album really speaks to me and it really shouldn’t. It’s not that I don’t like the band, the split they did with Iron & Wine was pretty good but on [...]
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Uncle T gave me Calexico's Garden Ruin for Christmas in 2006, and I tried but I could never get into it. I liked a few of Calexico's songs, but I could not develop much interest. Nonetheless, I took a chance and downloaded Carried To Dust on the basis of the official single, "Two Silver Trees" and found that not only do I keep liking that song better the more I hear it, the fifteen songs on t...
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Remember the video game Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver for Playstation? The game had you go around as a naked blue demon sucking the souls from people's bodies, remember? Probably not, but I do and my tireless research on YouTube leads me to believe the game was pretty terrible. In addition to looking horribly boring [...]
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Calexico and the Acorn @ Somerville Theater Little Joy, The Dead Trees, Buttercup @ TT the Bear's Los Enanitos Verdes @ Paradise 3OH!3, CHAIN GANG OF 1974, COBRACONDA, INNERPARTYSYSTEM @ Harper's Ferry Centro-matic, One (1) Baptist General, South San Gabriel @ Middle East upstairs "Let's Do It Again" with Ghostdad @ ZuZu Low Vs. Diamond, Barcelona, Paper Route [...]
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| 2 Sunken Waltz |
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| 3 Quattro (World Drifts In) |
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