The experimental Chicago rock band Califone will launch a U.S. tour beginning May 3 at the Performing Arts Center in Malibu, CA once they play three shows in Scotland.The group's most recent album, Roots & Crowns (Thrill Jockey) was released in 2006.Califone Tour Dates04/26/07 # Aberdeen, Scotland The Tunnels (7:30 PM, TIX)04/28/07 # Edinburgh, Scotland Cabaret Voltaire (7:00 PM, TIX)04/29/...
As I mentioned a few weeks back, Califone has a new album coming out October 6. All My Friends Are Funeral Singers is the first new material from the Chicago art-folk contingent since 2006’s splendid Roots & Crowns, and the 14-song set doubles as a sort-of film soundtrack to band leader Tim Rutili's directorial debut of the same name. Stereogum premiered the abbreviated title track, “Funeral
Califone, the four-piece experimental, roots folk band out of Chicago, are set to release their sixth album All My Friends are Funeral Singers later this fall on Dead Oceans. Hitting stores on October 6th, the new album will be the band's first for Dead Oceans and will serve as the follow-up to their fantastic 2006 release Roots and Crowns (which featured the stunning cover of Psychic TV's "T...
Okay, Dead Oceans, let's get one thing straight right fucking now. Chicago's Califone don't need any help releasing badass, fucked-up music. No way, no how. Sure, you may have gotten the call to release All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, the newest album of freaky, funky, junkyard, blues-pop by the multi-talented multi-instrumentalists Tim Rutili, Jim Becker, Joe Adamik, and Ben Masseralla sin...