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MORE CALEXICO TOUR DATES!

 

PRESALE BEGINS SAT, JULY 15th at 1 PM LOCAL TIME!

 

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Calexico has announced several new U.S. tour dates!

 

September 3: Oakland, CA @ Art & Soul Festival (NO PRESALE)

September 18: New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jack

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sweet. i'm gonna try to hit the st. louis show.
...and your college work is getting done when?? :lol

 

Calexico is much better in person than on CD. They aren't the world's greatest songwriters, but as intrumentalists they rule.

 

LouieB

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...and your college work is getting done when?? :lol

Hey, that St. Louis show is a Saturday night. You expect Rosie to stay in and study on a Saturday night? :huh

Is that what you did on Saturday nights in college, Lou? :brow :P

 

 

Calexico is much better in person than on CD.

totally agree ... yeah, they're 99% perfect on CD, and 100% perfect live. :D

 

 

They aren't the world's greatest songwriters, but as intrumentalists they rule.

That's kind of a backwards compliment, or a loaded phrase, or whatever you want to call it -- because obviously only one band or person can be the greatest. I think Calexico are fantastic songwriters, their melodies have taken up permanent residence in my brain for months now, and that spot doesn't usually get inhabited by mediocre songs, which I think is what you are implying they write.

 

Aaaakk, it doesn't really matter what differences we hear. I'm just digging them so much right now. :music

 

Most importantly, you gotta let Rosie go! :dancing

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Calexico: Canyons of their minds

Calexico's music has always reeked of the southern USA. But, they tell Fiona Sturges, their new album has a wider remit

Published: 25 August 2006 The Independent

 

Calexico's Joey Burns and John Convertino aren't exactly your average patrons of west London's fashionable K-West hotel. In this resting-place-cum-watering hole for hip young indie bands in ill-fitting suits, the thirtysomething pair cut incongruous figures in their checked shirts and battered truckers caps. "I feel like I've come to fix the plumbing," whispers Burns. "Still, I'm in a band. That must give me some credibility, right? I'll just keep telling myself that."

 

Named after a town that lies on the border between Mexico and California (in fact they live in Tucson, Arizona), Burns and Convertino have, for the last decade, been steeped in the American south-west, their sound a cinematic celebration of the desert that brings to mind scorched sunsets, rolling tumbleweeds and Ennio Morricone's spaghetti-western surrealism. Elements of jazz, lo-fi rock, country and avant-garde noise all vie for attention on their records. Along with keyboards, vibraphone, upright bass, pedal-steel guitar and Spanish guitars, Burns and Convertino have also been known to tour with a full Mexican mariachi band.

 

Storytelling is crucial to the Calexico experience. Their 1998 album The Black Light was an epic quasi-concept album, inspired by the writer Cormac McCarthy, about a kid from downtown Tucson who travels through the desert and ends up joining the Mexican circus.

 

But despite having honed a style specific to their environment, Calexico have yet to win over American audiences. Like their label-mates Lambchop, their fan-base lies in Europe, where they are seen as alt.country pioneers. "I think in the past Europeans have been more open-minded about our music," reflects Burns. "They get the aspect of the music that's related to our surroundings. In the States there has always been some resistance to that. I think for Americans it's a little too close to home. Also, because of the issues along the US-Mexican border, there's a lot of hostility and racial tension at present. There's a lot of xenophobia, so it's not a good time to be trying to celebrate and encourage this confluence of cultures."

 

This would certainly account for the shift in direction in their latest, critically-f

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I started with Feast of Wire after some mention of it here about 18 months ago. That alone was enough to make me respect them.

Then I bought Garden Ruin.

That's it - time and finance allowing I should progress further. Seen bits and pieces of other stuff on YouTube. They seem to have quite alot of EPs also (some only sold on tour). One has their great version of Alone Again Or. I seem to remember WildMercurySound (a big fan of theirs) putting up a mix once - but I don't do downloads.

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Isn't A Hawk and a Hacksaw on the bill also? Or are they just Zach's backing band? If they're playing, don't miss it.
The postman always sings twice

Alexis Petridis

Friday September 29, 2006 The Guardian

A taste for the exotic... A Hack and a Hacksaw

 

There are several options open for the former member of a legendary band whose mysterious reputation threatens to overshadow any future musical endeavour. You can withdraw from public life, thus saving your sanity and further amping up the legend. You can trudge doggedly on, grumpily demanding that interviewers ignore your past endeavours. Or you can move 4,000 miles to Leicester and become a postman.

"I've always been an Anglophile, so living in England seemed really exciting," says Jeremy Barnes, who chose the latter course of action after fabled US psychedelic "fuzz folk" band Neutral Milk Hotel fizzled out in 1999.

 

Since their demise, the band Barnes joined at 19 has entered into the realms of rock myth. While their legend was burgeoning, however, one of their number was busying himself in the decidedly non-mythic environs of a Leicester sorting office. "The main reason I took the postman's job was because I wanted the uniform," he says. "I still have it, the jacket and the badge and everything."

 

Unlikely as it sounds, his sojourn was to prove instrumental in developing Barnes's taste for the exotic. When not working for Royal Mail, he volunteered at a refugee hostel, playing music with asylum seekers from Iraq, Kurdistan, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria: "They would teach us rhythms and songs. It was pretty amazing being an American, playing with Iraqis right at the time of the Iraq invasion," Barnes was already a fan of eastern European folk music, but the experience seems to have determined the direction of his post-Neutral Milk Hotel project, A Hawk and a Hacksaw.

For A Hawk and a Hacksaw's new album, The Way the Wind Blows, he spent his savings on what sounds like a fairly hair-brained mission to Romania, armed only with the telephone number of Henry Ernst, manager of acclaimed gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia. After two days, he found himself in Zece Prajini, a village with "no plumbing, no pavement, no gas station. It's not even on any official map". The members of Fanfare Ciocarlia were slightly bewildered by what he wanted them to play: a stew of American folk, Roma and Turkish music and songs influenced by The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society. "They kept asking me, 'Where is this music from? What is the tradition of this music you're playing?' But they liked it."

 

Buoyed by the results, his next project involves a tour of villages in Serbia and Macedonia. "We travel by trains and carry our own equipment," he notes, his thoughts once more turning to Leicester. "So that's another reason why being a postman was good: it got me used to carrying heavy objects over long distances."

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I've saw them twice the last two weeks,met a few of the guys and they are as nice as can be.Seen them maybe five or six times and atleast half of those where exelent and the others still a good time.I say give them a chance!

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