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A Little Bit of Southwestern Soulnew

Amos Lee makes great use of a Calexico connection.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
04-25-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Calexico Takes Its Music South of the States and Across the Pondnew
While the Bush administration spent most of the last decade tarnishing America's reputation on the global stage and building fences along our border with Mexico, Tucson's Calexico did the opposite.
Dallas Observer |
Noah W. Bailey |
11-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Calexico, Carried to Dust
Calexico Favors Mariachi-meets-folk Groove on 'Carried to Dust'new
While Calexico's previous studio release -- 2006's Garden Ruin -- was an attempt to break into the mainstream, Carried to Dust sheds such polish
San Antonio Current |
Clint Hale |
09-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Calexico, Carried to Dust
West By Southwestnew
The eclectic desert collective Calexico draws from indie-rock and the barren Southwest landscapes to produce music that has made it into sound tracks to films like Committed and Bob Dylan's biopic I'm Not There.
Gambit |
Noah Bonaparte Pais |
04-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Calexico
What Burns Never Returnsnew

Calexico champion environmental causes on a hot new album.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Doree Shafrir |
06-26-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Calexico
Spaghetti Lecternsnew
Calexico takes aim and takes off the silencer.
San Diego CityBeat |
Jed Gottlieb |
06-07-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Calexico
Rehashed Yet Illuminatingnew
Via sheer wizardry, Ruin feels like a rebirth, with Joey Burns's recycling of the archetypal taking on the dimension of myth.
Tags: Calexico, Garden Ruin
From All Corners of the Globenew
With members from Tucson, Nashville and Germany, Calexico have crossed oceans and cultures to expand their sound.
Tucson Weekly |
Curtis McCrary |
11-20-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Calexico, The Black Light