Members of Calexico, who called themselves Spoke at first and put out an album of the same name in 1996, are, in truth, from Tucson. “To live here,” Arizona-based singer and Calexico collaborator ...

Joey Burns remembers an encounter that took place not long before the release of Calexico’s fourth album, Feast of Wire. “I’ll never forget going on a promotional tour – which doesn’t happen any more ...

As they head to Portugal to play this year's Super Bock Super Rock festival, Calexico's Joey Burns tells us about their special relationship with Iron & Wine and how it led to one of the best ...

Calexico, a Tex-Mex/indie-rock band, returns to its hometown of Tucson to perform at The Rialto Theater tonight. Though its a more underground band, Calexico’s travel-inspired and laid-back tunes have ...

Fans have known for years that American band Calexico is named after a town on the California-Mexican border. It's also hinted at its "desert noir" sound, which crosses the borders of genres, mixing ...

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 ...

Reached by phone on a recent afternoon in his native Tucson, where he’s enjoying a bit of downtime before his band Calexico heads back out on the road, singer-guitarist Joey Burns is taking a walk ...

Remember back in the late 90s when Calexico’s combination of windswept Spaghetti Western and Mexican music on early albums like Black Light and Hot Rail was daring and adventurous? Those days seem a ...

The band's album The Thread That Keeps Us is jangly desert mashup of Western Americana, Latin influence and any other sounds Calexico has picked... Calexico On World Cafe If you've listened to the ...

Calexico’s new EP, Convict Pool, encompasses the band’s diverse songbook best as it can in 20 short minutes. At its heart a political outfit (how could they avoid it, chronicling life on the ...

It’s more than a decade since Calexico started to shed their identity as the “indie mariachi” guys, moving slowly towards a more wide-ranging sound spanning the intersection of Americana and alt-rock.