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Calexico is an alt country band based in Tucson, Arizona, known for playing an eclectic variety of music. Its two main members are Joey Burns and John Convertino, who first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They have recorded a number of albums on Quarterstick Records, while their 2005 album In the Reins recorded with Iron & Wine has reached the Billboard 200 album charts. Their musical style is highly influenced by traditional sounds of the Southwestern United States and of Mexico, and they have been described by some as indie rock. Calexico is named after the border city in Southern California. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Nickname: The Old Pueblo Location in Pima County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Pima Government - Mayor Bob Walkup (R) Area - City 195. ...
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Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...
Matt Hillyer of Texas-based Eleven Hundred Springs Alternative country is a term applied to various subgenres of country music. ...
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Quarterstick Records is a sublabel of Touch and Go Records. ...
The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is an English music company comprising the major record company, EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ...
Location [[Image:{{{image_map}}}|280px|Location of Calexico, California]] {{{map_caption}}} Political Charateristics County Imperial Mayor Alex Perrone Physical Characteristics Incorporated 1908 Area Land Water 7. ...
Alternative country can refer to several ideas. ...
Nickname: The Old Pueblo Location in Pima County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Pima Government - Mayor Bob Walkup (R) Area - City 195. ...
Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 1,290. ...
Giant Sand, originally The Giant Sandworms, is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona (although Los Angeles, California was its home for many years). ...
Quarterstick Records is a sublabel of Touch and Go Records. ...
In the Reins is the fifth EP from Sam Beams Iron & Wine, released by Overcoat Recordings on September 13, 2005. ...
Samuel Beam, aka Iron & Wine, at a 2006 concert at Brooklyns McCarren Park Pool. ...
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...
Location [[Image:{{{image_map}}}|280px|Location of Calexico, California]] {{{map_caption}}} Political Charateristics County Imperial Mayor Alex Perrone Physical Characteristics Incorporated 1908 Area Land Water 7. ...
History
Formation Calexico had its origins in 1990 when Burns, who was studying music at the University of California, Irvine, met up with Convertino, who was playing drums with Howe Gelb in Giant Sand. Burns joined them, after first playing upright bass on a European tour. The University of California, Irvine is a public research university primarily situated in suburban Irvine, California; a significant portion of the campus falls into the neighboring community of Newport Beach. ...
Giant Sand, originally The Giant Sandworms, is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona (although Los Angeles, California was its home for many years). ...
Giant Sand moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1994. John and Joey formed the Friends of Dean Martin (later the Friends of Dean Martinez) which scored a record deal with Sub Pop. However, the pair split up with Bill Elm, the co-founder of The Friends of Dean Martinez in 1996. The band subsequently became a kind of indie rhythm section for hire, working with the likes of Victoria Williams, Barbara Manning and Richard Buckner before forming Calexico. Giant Sand, originally The Giant Sandworms, is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona (although Los Angeles, California was its home for many years). ...
Nickname: The Old Pueblo Location in Pima County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Pima Government - Mayor Bob Walkup (R) Area - City 195. ...
Friends of Dean Martinez is an instrumental rock band featuring members of Giant Sand, Calexico, and Naked Prey. ...
Sub Pop is a record label in Seattle, Washington that achieved fame in the 1990s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the local Seattle music scene. ...
Rhythm section refers to the musicians whose primary jobs in a jazz or popular music band or ensemble is to establish the rhythm of a song or musical piece, often via repeated riffs or ostinati. ...
Victoria Williams (born December 23, 1958) is a singer/songwriter, originally from Shreveport, Louisiana but for the length of her career a resident of Southern California. ...
Barbara Manning (born in San Diego, California) is an American indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ...
Richard Buckner Richard Buckner is an American singer songwriter born in California, resident in Edmonton, Canada for a number of years, and currently living in Brooklyn, NY. A critically-acclaimed artist most often associated with the Alternative Country movement, Buckner has in recent albums eschewed his initial acoustic approach and...
Recording history: 1996–present Calexico first recorded Spoke in 1996 for German independent label Hausmusik with a limited edition of 2,000 copies. At that point the band was still called Spoke and the album was technically self-titled. After the band signed with Quarterstick Records (a subsidiary of Touch and Go Records) and changed their name to Calexico, Spoke was reissued by that label in 1997. Spoke is the debut full length album released by Arizona indie rock band Calexico. ...
Touch and Go Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois, USA, which began life in 1979 in East Lansing, Michigan as a magazine put out by Tesco Vee. ...
Their second album The Black Light was released in 1998. This was a concept album about the desert of Arizona and northern Mexico and received excellent reviews, with the critic from the Wall Street Journal rating it as one of the best records of the year. Second album by Tucson, Arizona alt-country band Calexico. ...
The band built their profile by touring as support acts for bands such as Pavement, the Dirty Three and Lambchop. Calexico has regularly played festivals such as the Bonnaroo Music Festival, the Hurricane Festival and All Tomorrow's Parties. The Road Map album was a limited recording released in 1999 for sale only at Calexico's live shows. Pavement was an American indie rock band in the 1990s. ...
Dirty Three is an instrumental rock band, formed in 1993, in Melbourne, Australia by Warren Ellis (violin), Mick Turner (electric guitar), and Jim White (drums). ...
Lambchop is a band from Nashville, Tennessee. ...
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival (Bonnaroo, Rooville, BonRoo, Broo, roo or the Roo for short) is a four day annual music festival by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, first held in 2002. ...
The Hurricane Festival, also just Hurricane, is a music festival that takes place near Bremen, Germany, usually every June. ...
All Tomorrows Parties is a music festival which takes place in the United Kingdom at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and the United States in Los Angeles, CA. Named after a song by The Velvet Underground, it was founded by Barry Hogan and Helen Cottage in 1999...
Calexico released its third album Hot Rail in May 2000 featuring the addition of horns and violin to their sound. The duo was busy in 2000 as they also appeared on a Giant Sand record called Chore of Enchantment as well as a tour only record Travelall. Hot Rail is an album by Calexico, released in 2000 on Quarterstick Records. ...
At the end of 2000, Calexico joined with two French friends Naïm Amor and Thomas Belhôm to record Tete a Tete for release at the beginning of 2001. The band released two collections of rarities during 2001. Even My Sure Things Fall Through collected outtakes from previous albums, B-sides, remixes and material previously unreleased in the US. The album also featured Mariachi Luz de Luna who frequently played live with the duo. The Aerocalexico album was sold exclusively at their gigs in 2001. Aerocalexico is a 2001 Calexico album that was only available on their 2001 tour or on their website. ...
The Scraping live album was released in 2001. Their next studio recording Feast of Wire was released in 2003 and made the charts for the first time appearing on Billboard's Heatseekers and Independent album chart. They made their first video for "Quattro (World Drifts In)" which was a single from Feast of Wire. They released a live DVD in 2004 called World Drifts In: Live at the Barbican. The song Güero Canelo, from Feast of Wire, was featured in Michael Mann's Film, Collateral, starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Scraper is generally a tool that scrapes its edge along a surface to achieve some change such as the removal of material. ...
2003 Calexico album Track listing: Sunken Waltz Quattro (World Drifts In) Black Heart Pepita Not Even Stevie Nicks. ...
Calexico contributed the song "Burnin' Down the Spark" to Nancy Sinatra's self-titled album in late 2004. The album featured artists who cited Sinatra as a musical influence. The song was released in the UK as the second single from the album in early 2005. Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American singer and actress. ...
In 2005, Calexico joined up with Miami folk band Iron & Wine. Howard Greynolds of Overcoat Records was responsible for bringing the two bands together having previously been responsible for Tortoise and Will Oldham recording together. The In the Reins EP was released in September 2005 and received a positive reception with an MSNBC review giving it honorable mention. [1] It also made an appearance in the Billboard 200 album charts becoming its first album to make the album charts and #12 on the independent charts. In October 2005, they commenced a US tour with Iron & Wine to promote the record. Tortoise, an instrumental rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990. ...
Will Oldham (born 24 December 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. ...
In the Reins is the fifth EP from Sam Beams Iron & Wine, released by Overcoat Recordings on September 13, 2005. ...
Released in 2006, Garden Ruin was Calexico's fifth studio album. The sound strays slightly from earlier works, focusing less on the horn section, and placing more emphasis on guitar and vocal tracks, giving the whole album a more mainstream sound. By far calexico's most political release to date, Garden Ruin actively comments on the tragedy of war and the cost of blind patriotism. Garden Ruin is the 2006 release from Tucson, Arizona indie rock band Calexico. ...
Members The current members of Calexico as of May 2006 are: - Joey Burns (guitars and vocals)
- John Convertino (drums and percussion)
- Paul Niehaus (steel guitar)
- Jacob Valenzuela (keyboards, trumpet and vibraphone)
- Martin Wenk (accordion, guitar, synthesizers, trumpet, vibraphone)
- Volker Zander (standup bass)
Burns is one of only a few musicians who uses an Airline guitar, a white plastic guitar of unusual design made in the 1960s. Singer, guitar player and songwriter in the Tucson, Arizona band Calexico. ...
Calexico is an indie rock band known for playing an eclectic variety of music. ...
Airline Guitars were made in the USA from 1958-68 by VALCO and sold through Montgomery Ward. ...
Discography
Albums See also: 1996 in music, other events of 1997, 1998 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 9 - David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert (the day after his birthday) at Madison Square Garden, with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic...
Spoke is the debut full length album released by Arizona indie rock band Calexico. ...
See also: 1998 in music (UK) other events of 1998 Musical groups established in 1998 Record labels established in 1998 list of years in music 1990s in music // February 15 - Sir Edward Elgars unfinished third symphony, completed by Anthony Payne is performed for the first time at the Royal...
Second album by Tucson, Arizona alt-country band Calexico. ...
See also: 2000 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2000 Record labels established in 2000 other events of 2000 list of years in music 2000s in music // John Tavener is knighted in the New Years Honours List. ...
Hot Rail is an album by Calexico, released in 2000 on Quarterstick Records. ...
See also: 2003 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2003 Record labels established in 2003 other events of 2003 list of years in music 2000s in music // January - following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands...
2003 Calexico album Track listing: Sunken Waltz Quattro (World Drifts In) Black Heart Pepita Not Even Stevie Nicks. ...
See also: 2006 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2006 Record labels established in 2006 other events of 2006 list of years in music 2000s in music R&B Music Hits of 2006 January – James Nicholl, drummer of Pay*Ola became ill and was admitted to hospital. ...
Garden Ruin is the 2006 release from Tucson, Arizona indie rock band Calexico. ...
Tour only/miscellaneous albums See also: 1999 in music (UK) other events of 1999 Musical groups established in 1999 Record labels established in 1999 list of years in music 1990s in music // January 7 After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation. ...
See also: 2000 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2000 Record labels established in 2000 other events of 2000 list of years in music 2000s in music // John Tavener is knighted in the New Years Honours List. ...
See also: 2001 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2001 Record labels established in 2001 other events of 2001 list of years in music 2000s in music // January 1 Comeback of Guns N Roses in House of Blues Hum disbands. ...
See also: 2001 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2001 Record labels established in 2001 other events of 2001 list of years in music 2000s in music // January 1 Comeback of Guns N Roses in House of Blues Hum disbands. ...
Aerocalexico is a 2001 Calexico album that was only available on their 2001 tour or on their website. ...
See also: 2002 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2002 Record labels established in 2002 other events of 2002 list of years in music 2000s in music // 2002 was marked by significant trends in Rock Music. ...
Scraper is generally a tool that scrapes its edge along a surface to achieve some change such as the removal of material. ...
See also: 2005 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2005 Record labels established in 2005 other events of 2005 list of years in music 2000s in music January 1 - In most of Europe, copyright expired on a number of classic pop and rock and roll songs recorded in 1954...
EPs See also: 2001 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2001 Record labels established in 2001 other events of 2001 list of years in music 2000s in music // January 1 Comeback of Guns N Roses in House of Blues Hum disbands. ...
Even My Sure Things Fall Through is an EP by Arizona band Calexico. ...
See also: 2004 in music (UK) other events of 2004 list of years in music 2000s in music // January 1 Vienna New Years Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, conducted by Riccardo Muti Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol January 3 - Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a...
Convict Pool is an EP released by Arizona band Calexico. ...
See also: 2004 in music (UK) other events of 2004 list of years in music 2000s in music // January 1 Vienna New Years Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, conducted by Riccardo Muti Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol January 3 - Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a...
Black Heart is a horizontally scrolling shoot em up arcade game released by UPL in 1991. ...
See also: 2005 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2005 Record labels established in 2005 other events of 2005 list of years in music 2000s in music January 1 - In most of Europe, copyright expired on a number of classic pop and rock and roll songs recorded in 1954...
In the Reins is the fifth EP from Sam Beams Iron & Wine, released by Overcoat Recordings on September 13, 2005. ...
Samuel Beam, aka Iron & Wine, at a 2006 concert at Brooklyns McCarren Park Pool. ...
DVD - 2004 World Drifts In: Live at the Barbican
See also: 2004 in music (UK) other events of 2004 list of years in music 2000s in music // January 1 Vienna New Years Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, conducted by Riccardo Muti Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol January 3 - Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a...
Remixes See also: 2001 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2001 Record labels established in 2001 other events of 2001 list of years in music 2000s in music // January 1 Comeback of Guns N Roses in House of Blues Hum disbands. ...
Human is a electronic music song written by British duo Goldfrapp for their debut album Felt Mountain (2000). ...
Chart positions - Feast of Wire 2003 #23 Independent Albums, #45 Heatseekers
- In the Reins 2005 #135 Billboard 200, #12 Independent Albums
- Garden Ruin 2006 #156 Billboard 200, #14 Independent Albums, #3 Heatseekers
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