Not everyone hits the desert and is immediately charmed by its dusky mystery. Some never find an affinity for its prickly sprawl, while others, like Joey Burns — one of Calexico’s two main members — ...

Tucson, AZ's Calexico will release their ninth studio album, The Thread That Keeps Us, via ANTI- on January 26. "There's a little more chaos and noise in the mix than what we've done in the past," ...

The soft Southwestern melodies and rich orchestration from the Tucson cross-genre rockers have left a distinctive mark upon the world of film and music, whether featuring heavily in the Todd Haynes ...

Joey Burns says it took some convincing John Convertino, the drummer he's been working with for 30 years, to get on board with the thought of Calexico making a holiday record. "He was fine with doing ...

Calexico co-founders Joey Burns and John Convertino hear the world differently than most people. After all, not everyone would have imagined that surf guitar reverb would sound so at home beneath a ...

And so Tuscan Arizona's finest return with their forth full length album, a sprawling record of alt-country and mariachi soundscapes. It begins traditionally enough with the Buckleyesque affair that ...

In 2005, members of Iron & Wine and Calexico united to create the EP In the Reins. The parties involved reconvened 14 years later in a Nashville studio to record a full-length release titled Years to ...

There aren't many sacred cows in Tucson, but Calexico is becoming one of them. We love that they claim Tucson. We love their down-to-earth personas, playing multiple benefit shows here every year. We ...

The Tucson, Ariz., band's newest batch of story-songs about people in transition is titled Algiers, named for the New Orleans neighborhood where... At 11 a.m. on a weekday, Calexico rehearses for its ...

3 Listen: The Rolling Stones Release New Studio Album 'Foreign Tongues' Calexico and Iron & Wine recently announced Years to Burn, their first full-length album together, out June 14th via City Slang ...

“We needed to have some fresh perspectives, so John [Convertino, Calexico’s drummer and fellow songwriter] and I went to New Orleans to see what kind of songs we could write”, explains Burns, noting ...