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Calexico - Two Silver Trees
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the culture of me
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(photo by Bill Carter)
The sound of the open road and the restless nature of adventure. That's what fills "Two Silver Trees", the first musical litmus test that Calexico has just offered up from Carried To Dust, the band's first album in two yea...
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Calexico - Crystal Frontier
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So Much Silence
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How can you not love Calexico and the Quarterstick/Touch & Go family? After news that the group’s song Crystal Frontier was being played on the Space Shuttle Discovery, the label has decided to make it available as a free download for Earthli...
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Calexico - Victor Jara's Hands
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An Aquarium Drunkard
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Now a decade into their career, Tucson’s Calexico continue to cull their sound from the surrounding deserts. Just as their name implies, that sound is equally rooted in California and Mexico - border-hopping back and forth - absorbing whichever s...
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Calexico - Cruel
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[audiosport•)))
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De spanning begint te stijgen, morgen weten we wie of wat op nummer 1 staat in audiosport feestelijke vijftig. Als opwarmer daarom vandaag de nummers 11 t/m 20, de platen die het net niet haalden tot de top tien. Maar zeker ook mooie klasseringen,...
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Calexico - Ballad Of Cable Hogue
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The Sharon Jones concert that was originally scheduled at Austin Music Hall has been moved to La Zona Rosa. If you already bought tickets, they will still be honored at the door.Tickets are still available for this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest, get...
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Calexico - I Send My Love To You
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Cover Lay Down
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The news runs all night and all day: in the barber shop, at the proverbial watercooler, on the seldom-watched television that has always lurked in the corner of our living room. In class, I ask my students to search news sites and blogs, and r...
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Calexico - Man Made Lake
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Popdose
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We are now officially in the fourth quarter sales market. Department stores have begun to roll out the Christmas decorations, big summer movies are winding their way to the DVD department and some major releases in music are on the horizon for the...
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Calexico - Not Even Stevie Nicks...
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It All Started With Carbon Monoxide
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My love affair with Calexico began with last year’s Carried To Dust and endures still with this Black Cab Session performance of ‘Not Even Stevie Nicks’ from their 2003 release Feast Of Wire. It’s a great concept actually – musicians taking a cab...
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Calexico - Inspiracion
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SoundRoots Global Culture
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CD REVIEWCalexico: Carried to Dust(Quarterstick)An eager publicist insisted that I have a listen to Calexico’s latest offering. The group has been on the periphery of my musical knowledge in recent years, though I admit to never developing a hunge...
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Calexico - Across the Wire (acoustic)
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Some Velvet Blog
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Talk about spaced out!!! This little piece of information has emerged from the Calexico camp:On May 31st, the Space Shuttle Discovery took off toward the International Space station, carrying Commander Mark Kelly on his third flight into space. Du...
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Calexico - Alone Again Or
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pogo a go-go
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Scaaary picture courtesy of the very brave G-Na"You asked me once," said O'Brien, "what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world." -- George Or...
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Calexico - Gift X-Change
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captain's dead
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top o’ the morning. so, the van dyke clan done got our selves a christmas tree yesterday! we spent the majority of the day picking it out, or at least it seemed as such. to me nothing says christmas like picking out a dying tree at your local ho...
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Calexico - Writer's Minor Holiday
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The Swill Merchant
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'Carried To Dust' - the new Calexico album is fast arriving. Here are a couple of new tracks to give you an idea of what to expect from one seriously talented group of musicians. 'Slowness ' MP3 'Writers Minor Holiday' MP3
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Calexico - Bend In The Road
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Pasta Primavera
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On Carried To Dust, Calexico has continued their tradition of piecing together emotions, connections, and landscapes to reflect on themselves and the world around them. There may be songs that aren’t my cup of joe, but they are all well written ...
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Calexico - Minas de Cobre (For Better Metal) (live)
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Last Thursday, Emily and I made the short trip up to Chicago to take a once-in-a-lifetime free concert. Calexico (along with the Mariachi Luz de Luna and Salvador Duran) were closing out the World Music Festival at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Mi...
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Calexico - Love Will Tear Us Apart
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pogo a go-go
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Quilt by Lisa Visser, photo borrowed from hereYes, yes, I know I'm late again. My excuse this time is that I'm nursing a cold. Forget rats or mosquitoes, kids are without a doubt THE most efficient disease vectors...Anyway, I'd still like to dra...
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Calexico - Frank's Tavern
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Catfish Vegas presents...
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Today we've got a couple good tidbits from the folks over at Yep Roc:
First is a new track from Dave Alvin, "Walking with Mr. Lee." It's a tribute to Lee Allen, who taught a couple saxophone lessons to a 15-year-old Dave Alvin, before advising th...
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Calexico - Across The Wire
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Catfish Vegas presents...
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I let this list stretch a little long, but hey, I saw more than 80 shows this year and a hell of a lot of them were amazing.Live music is what I live on, as much as anything else. I can’t count the times when I’ve gone out to see a show after a su...
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Calexico - Attack El Robot! Attack!
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טאפאס וטאפאס
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כשהעשור הזה הולך וקרב לסיומו, נותרו עוד כמה אלבומים שראויים לציון, שאני רחוק מלהיות מסוגל לסכמו. על אלבום מפעים מלהקה גרועה, דרך האלבומים של אמריקה האמיתית, ועד לנשות העשור שלי וללהקה שהיא פשטות גאונית בהתגלמותה.
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail...
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Calexico - Black Heart
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טאפאס וטאפאס
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כשהעשור הזה הולך וקרב לסיומו, נותרו עוד כמה אלבומים שראויים לציון, שאני רחוק מלהיות מסוגל לסכמו. על אלבום מפעים מלהקה גרועה, דרך האלבומים של אמריקה האמיתית, ועד לנשות העשור שלי וללהקה שהיא פשטות גאונית בהתגלמותה.
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail...
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Calexico - Guero Canelo
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Catfish Vegas presents...
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I'm back from a long and relaxing trip north to Prescott, to celebrate the holidays with my family and friends, chill out, read, hang out and pat a best friend on the back just before he took his wedding vows, saying quietly that it was going to b...
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Calexico - House Of Valparaiso
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Frequenze Indipendenti
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- STASERA (22,30) in diretta Radiofonica da Milano Marittima -Reduci dal bellissimo live di Iron & Wine in quel dell'Hana Bi di Marina di Ravenna e dalla conseguente chiaccherata con Sam Beam (intervista e report dopo le vacanze), siamo finalm...
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Calexico - Black Heart (Jazzanova's White Soul Dub)
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Comfort Music
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* Calexico - Black Heart (Jazzanova's White Soul Dub) [buy the EP] * Toro Y Moi - Blessa [debut out Feb. 2010] * Birds & Batteries - Sneaky Times [buy the EP] * Little Boots - Earthquake (Daedelus remix)...
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Calexico - The Black Light
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The Rich Girls are Weeping
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(photo courtesy of wkrantz)Hola people! Sorry we've been off the radar for the past few weeks -- late March was a killer. First off, we must thank everyone who came out to see us dj -- it was nice to see you! In case you didn't make it, here's so...
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Calexico - Quattro (World Drifts In)
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Chromewaves
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Photo by Frank YangAfter a weekend of beatings and breakings and the finest musical stylings that technology had to offer, it was good to shift gears Sunday night and get back to something a little more homespun and for getting back to roots, you...
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Calexico - Minas De Cobre
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Communications Major, English Minor
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Evan in Kansas City! Or should I call you "Chaz Bukowski"? Thank you for your donation you excellently-named boy! That makes seven donations in six days. We've (still) almost reach half of my goal, with eight days left to go! And now I'm getting n...
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Calexico - Not even Stevie Nicks
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Catfish Vegas presents...
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With an easy-as-pie standby flight, a nice long BART ride and a bus that actually had a seat for my wearying traveler's soul, I landed at Grove & Divisadero, my home-away-from-home in the heart of San Francisco. This latest visit is an extende...
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Calexico - Corona
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The Stranger Dance
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Outside Lands week in San Francisco is off and rolling. Daily lineups and schedules have been set. You can start prepping your comfortable walking shoes and figuring out the best way to navigate Muni over the course of the weekend (let’s hope mor...
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Calexico - Old Man Waltz
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lonesome music
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I went to see a film called 35 Rhums last night and the music was fantastic, a mix of gallic whimsy, bassoon, strings and melancholia. Spot on lonesome. Especially when accompanying shots of people looking a bit glum on trains, and we all know h...
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Calexico - Quattro (World Drifts In) (live)
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ThaBombShelter
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Last Thursday, Emily and I made the short trip up to Chicago to take a once-in-a-lifetime free concert. Calexico (along with the Mariachi Luz de Luna and Salvador Duran) were closing out the World Music Festival at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Mi...
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Calexico - Contention City
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Pasta Primavera
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Tonight in Baltimore WTMD is presenting one hell of a show at Sonar featuring Calexico and special guest Lo Moda. This is the place to be in my mind….no wait…crap! Down in DC Double Dagger is doing a performance at Crooked Beat Records. That i...
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Calexico - Sunken Waltz
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Catfish Vegas presents...
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I ran into a feller at lunch today who dropped me the news that Calexico has finished recording a new album and set a release day for Sept. 9.
"Carried to Dust" will be the band's fifth proper LP, but that doesn't come close to capturing the amaz...
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Calexico - Roka
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ThaBombShelter
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On Monday evening, when I sat down to review the new Calexico album, I was at a loss. I was still at a loss on Tuesday, until I read this quite wonderful post on Song, By Toad, about his thoughts on Calexico and how this latest album fits into th...
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Calexico - Guns of Brixton
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An Aquarium Drunkard
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Now a decade into their career, Tucson’s Calexico continue to cull their sound from the surrounding deserts. Just as their name implies, that sound is equally rooted in California and Mexico - border-hopping back and forth - absorbing whichever s...
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Calexico - All Systems Red
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Catfish Vegas presents...
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This weekend is definitely shaping up to be the busiest of the year.Starting off the agenda, we have Damien Jurado and Laura Gibson in an early show at Club Congress. I'm pretty new to Jurado, but he comes highly recommended, and I haven't heard G...
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Calexico - El Gatillo
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captain's dead
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photo by wendy lynch
my new favorite chip: chili cheese fritos! holy crap are good. just thought i would share that bit of info about yours truly. on tap today is a calexico show broadcasted on radio1 in italy on 3.27.09 but me thinks it was actu...
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Calexico - guitar intro
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captain's dead
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photo by wendy lynch
my new favorite chip: chili cheese fritos! holy crap are good. just thought i would share that bit of info about yours truly. on tap today is a calexico show broadcasted on radio1 in italy on 3.27.09 but me thinks it was actu...
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Calexico - fractured air
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captain's dead
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photo by wendy lynch
my new favorite chip: chili cheese fritos! holy crap are good. just thought i would share that bit of info about yours truly. on tap today is a calexico show broadcasted on radio1 in italy on 3.27.09 but me thinks it was actu...
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Calexico - the ride part two
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captain's dead
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photo by wendy lynch
my new favorite chip: chili cheese fritos! holy crap are good. just thought i would share that bit of info about yours truly. on tap today is a calexico show broadcasted on radio1 in italy on 3.27.09 but me thinks it was actu...
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Calexico - encore break
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captain's dead
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photo by wendy lynch
my new favorite chip: chili cheese fritos! holy crap are good. just thought i would share that bit of info about yours truly. on tap today is a calexico show broadcasted on radio1 in italy on 3.27.09 but me thinks it was actu...
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Calexico - he lays in the reins
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captain's dead
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photo by wendy lynch
my new favorite chip: chili cheese fritos! holy crap are good. just thought i would share that bit of info about yours truly. on tap today is a calexico show broadcasted on radio1 in italy on 3.27.09 but me thinks it was actu...
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Calexico - band intros
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photo by wendy lynch
my new favorite chip: chili cheese fritos! holy crap are good. just thought i would share that bit of info about yours truly. on tap today is a calexico show broadcasted on radio1 in italy on 3.27.09 but me thinks it was actu...
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Calexico - spokes
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captain's dead
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photo by wendy lynch
my new favorite chip: chili cheese fritos! holy crap are good. just thought i would share that bit of info about yours truly. on tap today is a calexico show broadcasted on radio1 in italy on 3.27.09 but me thinks it was actu...
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Calexico - Stray (Live, 2001)
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Music Of The Moment
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I soldier on through the loads of mails, and here are a few sounds worth listening to. Old news maybe for frequent visitors of my blogroll, but these songs really deserve to be mentionned multiple times!Analogue Consumption: Indie-pop with a hint ...
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Calexico - Hair Like Spanish Moss
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Sunglasses in Unforgiven
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FADE IN
CLOSEUP
of a man's face, eyes open. Camera begins to pull back slowly, at a slight incline, revealing him to be recently dead, face up and lying on sand. Dried rust-colored blood trails originate from each ear. A metal cylinder clutched ...
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Calexico - Frontera/Trigger
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Communications Major, English Minor
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Evan in Kansas City! Or should I call you "Chaz Bukowski"? Thank you for your donation you excellently-named boy! That makes seven donations in six days. We've (still) almost reach half of my goal, with eight days left to go! And now I'm getting n...
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Calexico - Absent Afternoon
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Catfish Vegas presents...
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I'm back from a long and relaxing trip north to Prescott, to celebrate the holidays with my family and friends, chill out, read, hang out and pat a best friend on the back just before he took his wedding vows, saying quietly that it was going to b...
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Calexico - Convict Pool
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The Daily Growl
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Calexico are one of my favourite bands, and one that I’ll usually go to see every time they’re in London simply because they’re a fantastic live band who always put on a great show. I know I was a bit lukewarm about the last time I saw them, when ...
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Calexico - Quattro
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Music Of The Moment
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Once again, I haven't had much time to prepare something for today's Flashback Friday. So I decided to crawl through archive.org and bring you some live performances from artists I discovered during the last few years. If you enjoy what you here, ...
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Calexico - Fourth Time Around
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Captain Obvious
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SIDE A1. Wilco - Lookin' For a Love (Neil Young Cover)2. Frightened Rabbit - Set You Free (N-Trance Cover)3. Grizzly Bear - Graceland (Paul Simon Cover)4. Mates Of State - California (Phantom Planet Cover)5. Denison Witmer - Is There A Ghost (Ba...
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Calexico - Two Silver Trees (live)
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ThaBombShelter
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Last Thursday, Emily and I made the short trip up to Chicago to take a once-in-a-lifetime free concert. Calexico (along with the Mariachi Luz de Luna and Salvador Duran) were closing out the World Music Festival at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Mi...
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Calexico - Crystal Frontier (live)
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ThaBombShelter
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Last Thursday, Emily and I made the short trip up to Chicago to take a once-in-a-lifetime free concert. Calexico (along with the Mariachi Luz de Luna and Salvador Duran) were closing out the World Music Festival at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Mi...
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Calexico - Partial Encore (live)
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ThaBombShelter
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Last Thursday, Emily and I made the short trip up to Chicago to take a once-in-a-lifetime free concert. Calexico (along with the Mariachi Luz de Luna and Salvador Duran) were closing out the World Music Festival at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Mi...
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Calexico - Across the Wire (live)
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Last Thursday, Emily and I made the short trip up to Chicago to take a once-in-a-lifetime free concert. Calexico (along with the Mariachi Luz de Luna and Salvador Duran) were closing out the World Music Festival at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Mi...
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Calexico - Letter To Bowie Knife
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Catfish Vegas presents...
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Today Calexico posted "Silver Trees" from the upcoming Carried to Dust as a free download on the band's MySpace site. The record is out Sept. 9, and this is the first full preview the band is giving, though a couple of teaser video clips are also ...
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Calexico - The Ride (pt II)
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Motel de Moka
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Even the Emperor succumbed to fantasy. Queens floated within his palaces like ghosts, Rajput and Turkish sultanas playing catch-me-if-you-can. One of these royal personages did not really exist. She was an imaginary wife, dreamed up by Akbar in t...
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Calexico - Chach
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captain's dead
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here be part two of my picks that should make up the perfect soundtrack for your summer, maybe…
drive by truckers.the dirty south
is that freedom rock, man? fuck yeah, it is! well turn it up!
never gonna change
goddamn lonely love
drive by trucke...
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Calexico - Lost in Space (live)
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Catfish Vegas presents...
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After nine months of travel (across 422 million miles), the Mars Phoenix lander probe is set to touch down today on the Red Planet.
And since the entire mission is being led by scientists right here in Tucson, I reckoned I'd go on down to campus ...
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Calexico - Alone Again Or (live)
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Catfish Vegas presents...
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This is shaping up to be a great late spring for live music in Tucson.
Even just at the Rialto Theatre there's a string of shows as good as any I can remember: Calexico, Cowboy Junkies, X, Rancid, the RZA, Drive-By Truckers, Steve Earle & All...
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Calexico - Hot Rail
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Motel de Moka
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Photo credit: Jelle Baars
Over the last couple of years I seem to have grown a much stronger affection for public transportation. I’m not a daily commuter - I can go to work and university by bicycle - but regularly travelling back and forth by t...
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Calexico - Ocean Of Noise
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i guess i'm floating
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[MP3] Calexico - Ocean of NoiseOn a recent Thursday, I had posted a dandy cover of Norah Jones' take on Arcade Fire's "Ocean of Noise". Something about this song is screaming "Cover me! Cover me!" to other musicians, with Calexico taking a turn d...
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