Founded: 1996
Location: United States
Calexico is an American indie rock band based in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1996, the band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They have recorded a number of albums on Quarterstick Records and City Slang, and their 2005 EP, In the Reins, recorded with Iron & Wine, reached the Billboard 200 album charts. Their musical style is influenced by traditional Latin sounds of mariachi, conjunto, cumbia, and tejano mixed with country, jazz, and post-rock.
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"At times they have a Morricone-esque sense of grandeur, their dangling licks of slide guitar and brassy overtures evoking some Western idyll, verily galloping across the range."
"Long may they spread their inimitable and welcoming gospel."
"There’s literally no one else who can replicate what you do."
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"Here, the territory they explore is sometimes underwhelmlingly familiar."
"With a little extra cowbell and some subtly deep grooves, the comfortably seated were compelled into sexy dancing."
"They followed it up immediately with Feel Good Inc the funky bass line from that resonating with the audience's hips and feet."
"Calexico is a melting pot of arid guitars, warm Latin brass and sizzling hot stage presence."