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 ...

With a name like Calexico, a band might expect to be pigeonholed. And for most of their time together, guitarist-singer Joey Burns, drummer John Convertino and their cohorts have played to the vibe ...

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 ...

Mariachi Luz de Luna showed up at his home on the night before Joey Burns and his family were set to leave Tucson for Boise, Idaho, in summer 2020. As they serenaded Burns, one half of the popular ...

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 ...

Calexico guitarist/vocalist Joey Burns sounds like a man with the world on the string of his white plastic guitar. The air is brisk, the sky is bright -- and after he asks for a receipt from the ...

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 ...

Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico were all set to make the band’s Tucson Symphony Orchestra debut back in early 2012. But the pair bowed out courtesy of a scheduling snafu, and the Indigo ...

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 ...

If there is such a thing as power mariachi, or mariachi power pop, then Calexico must have invented it. Or at least they will make it accessible to the masses. If there is such a thing as power ...

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, Arizona’s Calexico did the ...

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