News
El Mirador Out Now via ANTI-
Sep 20, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Calexico (Joey Burns and John Convertino) have shared a new song, “Rambler.” It is out now via ANTI-. More
El Mirador Due Out April 8 via ANTI-
Mar 02, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Calexico (Joey Burns and John Convertino) have shared a new song, “Harness the Wind.” It is the latest release from their upcoming album, El Mirador, which is out on April 8 via ANTI-. The duo have also announced a set of North American tour dates for June 2022. More
El Mirador Due Out April 8 via ANTI-
Feb 01, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Calexico (Joey Burns and John Convertino) have announced the release of their 10th studio album, El Mirador, which will be out on April 8 via ANTI-. They have also shared an animated video for the album’s title track. More
Years to Burn Out Now via Sub Pop
Sep 17, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Calexico (Joey Burns and John Convertino) and Iron & Wine (aka Sam Beam) released a new collaborative album, Years to Burn, back in June via Sub Pop. Now they have announced some new 2020 tour dates. More
Years to Burn Due Out June 14 via Sub Pop
May 02, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Calexico (Joey Burns and John Convertino) and Iron & Wine (aka Sam Beam) are releasing a new collaborative album, Years to Burn, on June 14 via Sub Pop. Previously they shared its first single, “Father Mountain.” Now they have shared another song from the album, “Midnight Sun,” via an animated video for the track featuring illustrations by Beam. More
Years to Burn Due Out June 14 via Sub Pop, Tour Dates Also Announced
Mar 21, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Calexico and Iron & Wine have announced a new collaborative album, Years to Burn, and shared its first single, “Father Mountain.” Years to Burn is due out June 14 via Sub Pop. More
The Thread That Keeps Us Due Out January 26 via ANTI-
Oct 12, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Calexico have announced a new album, The Thread That Keeps Us, and shared a lyric video for its first single, “End of the World With You.” The Thread That Keeps Us is due out January 26 via ANTI-. Below is the “End of the World With You” lyric video, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art. More
A Man and His Monstrosity
Apr 23, 2015
By Mike Hilleary
Releasing their ninth studio album, Edge of the Sun this week, Calexico have premiered a brand new music video for their included single, “Falling From the Sky.” More
Edge of the Sun is Due Out April 14 on ANTI-
Feb 11, 2015
By Laura Studarus
Midwestern-tinged outfit Calexico will be hitting the road in support of their forthcoming album Edge of the Sun, due out April 14 on ANTI-. More
Oct 08, 2013
By Michele Yamamoto
Jun 03, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Back in April for Record Store Day Calexico issued a limited pressing of a live album titled Spiritoso. More
Jun 05, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Arizona-based alt-country group Calexico have announced that they will release their latest full-length album Algiers on Sept. 11. More
Jul 16, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Still riding high on 2008’s Carried to Dust, southwest rockers Calexico are offering up a free album, Live in Nuremberg. We have a preview and information on where you can download it. More
Interviews
Apr 01, 2015
By Laura Studarus
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Joey Burns loves to travel. Since 1997, the Calexico frontman has made his living writing music infused with life on the road. More
Reviews
May 22, 2018
By Stephen Mayne
As far as planning an evening of contrasts goes, you couldn’t do much better than putting Calexico and Ryley Walker on the bill together. The former comes with nine albums and more than 20 years of raucous, high-tempo history, the latter is a man and his guitar. More
Feb 23, 2018
By Stephen Wyatt
Overconsumption of information has lead to infinite narratives that will never be tied together. A belief in obscurity eliminates anxiety, for relevance is no longer a priority. Calexicolurches toward this new definition of freedom in nothingness on their nineth studio album The Thread That Keeps Us. More
Sep 11, 2012
By Alee Karim
Algiers is the latest in a long line of unperturbedly consistent Calexico records, the same ones that score the imaginary hip gas stations in the Cormac-McCarthy-by-way-of-Wes-Anderson southwestern border towns of the mind. And while there’s nothing remarkably out of step with what they’ve done before, Calexico trade on their strengths in the “well-worn shoe” tradition of bands like AC/DC or Red House Painters-the same old thing as an irreplaceable standby. More
Apr 21, 2009
By Mark Redfern
Day two of Coachella 2009 failed to top day one, in part because of a weak headliner. But the second day did feature strong sets from M.I.A., Jenny Lewis, and Fleet Foxes. More