Wonderful news to wake up to today, Califone have a new album called villagers in the can and set for release on May 19th via Jealous Butcher Records. On the first single ‘Habsburg Jaw‘, Tim Rutili is sounding in fine form, still weaving that fascinating mix of melodic immediacy and skewed experimental pop – a sonic junk shop of the accessible and the avant garde. … Continue reading CALIFONE ANNOUNCE NEW 2023 LP AND RELEASE FIRST SINGLE
A quick trip back through the memory cells and some scanning of my music library has thrown up these twenty artists (in alphabetical order) who have released some of our favourite albums of 2020 so far. There are plenty more I haven’t heard yet, hopefully some gems among them. In the meantime, I hope this throws up a few that you may not have had … Continue reading 20 Of Our Favourite Albums From The First Half Of 2020
This week I got to listen to a preview stream and review the new LP Dream River by the always reliable Bill Callahan. The review will be in The Music next week (and online) so I won’t give too much away other than to say it is a wonderful album, a very, very good record and a stylistic change for him in some ways yet … Continue reading EIGHT DAYS A WEEK: September 6th, 2013
Chicago’s Califone are about to follow up 2006’s Roots And Crowns with their new album All My Friends Are Funeral Singers on October 6th. The album also sees them departing from Thrill Jockey and joining forces with Dead Oceans. The album is connected to the film of the same name directed by frontman Tim Rutili who hopes to have it on screens at festivals in … Continue reading NEWS: CALIFONE to release new album…
The often overlooked Califone with a gem from their last album Roots & Crowns… more about “VIDEO: CALIFONE – Spiders House“, posted with vodpod Continue reading VIDEO: CALIFONE – Spiders House
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