The band Califone, unlike the brand of educational audio equipment from whence it draws its name, has consistently put forth albums that disseminate auditory creativity rather than pedantry. Their ...

Longstanding experimental folk outfit Califone welcome a double LP reissue of Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People today (Tuesday, November 6) via Jealous Butcher. Sometimes Good Weather Follows ...

Califone is about one-third of the way through its "Roots & Crowns" tour -- one that began with three April gigs in Scotland and is now weaving through the States, landing the band here in Milwaukee ...

Way back in 2016, Califone shared a home-recorded EP called Insect Courage, which featured a song called "Burn The Sheets.Bleach The Books." Since then, the Tim Rutili-led band played that song live ...

Tim Rutili began the show by describing the memories and sentiments behind “Don’t Let Me Die Nervous” – namely, how he really wanted to have sex with his brother’s girlfriend years ago. “And there are ...

Everyone’s favorite skate punk covers band Me First & The Gimme Gimmes are now going by Spike and the Gimme Gimmes, and have just announced a summer tour which has them out in July and August. Melissa ...

in an underground music landscape where 140 characters equals 'journalism' and lone mp3s propel bands to momentary internet stardom, bands are here today and gone tomorrow. califone is a band that ...

It’s not an easy thing — for performer and fan alike — to get out of the standard musical comfort zone. Certainly, it frightened Califone founder and frontman Tim Rutili. But getting off a club stage ...

Welcome to Seven in Seven, where we look at shows coming to the region over the next week. As always, whether your musical tastes are rock and roll, jazz, heavy metal, R&B, singer-songwriter or indie, ...

It makes sense that Wilco scored all kinds of press hoopla with its Solid Sound Festival earlier this month at Mass MoCA. After all, SSF was a three-day event curated by one of the country's most ...

Califone’s music sounds like it’s perpetually in the process of metamorphosis, as if you’ve caught these songs at the moment when their shapes have just become discernible. Clatter coheres into order ...