Calexico and Iron & Wine will reunite for the new collaborative album Years to Burn, which will be released June 14th. The full-length effort comes 14 years after the stalwart indie folk-rock acts teamed up to release the 2005 Ep In the Reins.
The warm voice of singer-songwriter Sam Beam (who performs as Iron & Wine) guides the album’s lead track “Father Mountain,” which features an airy acoustic progression and uplifting harmonies from Calexico’s Joey Burns.
Years to Burn was recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium with producer Matt Ross-Spang, whose engineering...
The warm voice of singer-songwriter Sam Beam (who performs as Iron & Wine) guides the album’s lead track “Father Mountain,” which features an airy acoustic progression and uplifting harmonies from Calexico’s Joey Burns.
Years to Burn was recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium with producer Matt Ross-Spang, whose engineering...
- 3/21/2019
- by Jedd Ferris
- Rollingstone.com
DVD Release Date: Nov. 12, 2013
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: First Run Features
The hour-long 2012 documentary In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey presents a portrait of Fahey, who is known as the father of American Primitive Guitar and who’s considered by many to be a foundational figure in American folk music.
As both musician and musicologist, Fahey made a fundamental contribution to our understanding and appreciation of such music genres as Delta blues, Appalachian bluegrass and New Orleans jazz.
Directed by James Cullingham, In Search of Blind Joe Death combines interviews, performances and archival footage with animation in a tribute to the tremendously influential composer, guitarist, author and provocateur.
Interviewees include Pete Townshend, Joey Burns of Calexico, Chris Funk of The Decemberists and renowned radio personality Dr. Demento, aka Barry Hansen.
The DVD contains more than an hour of bonus features, including the full Pete Townshend interview and rare music performance footage.
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: First Run Features
The hour-long 2012 documentary In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey presents a portrait of Fahey, who is known as the father of American Primitive Guitar and who’s considered by many to be a foundational figure in American folk music.
As both musician and musicologist, Fahey made a fundamental contribution to our understanding and appreciation of such music genres as Delta blues, Appalachian bluegrass and New Orleans jazz.
Directed by James Cullingham, In Search of Blind Joe Death combines interviews, performances and archival footage with animation in a tribute to the tremendously influential composer, guitarist, author and provocateur.
Interviewees include Pete Townshend, Joey Burns of Calexico, Chris Funk of The Decemberists and renowned radio personality Dr. Demento, aka Barry Hansen.
The DVD contains more than an hour of bonus features, including the full Pete Townshend interview and rare music performance footage.
- 11/11/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Calexico has always had a good handle on loss. Their new song "Para" and its accompanying music video has a downward spiral feel, aside from the obvious lyrical themes and fuzzy shots of parenthood; this dramatic track features wobbly home videos and the band performing behind distorted lenses. Oh, and Joey Burns gets a shave. "Para" precedes the Sept. 11 release of "Algiers," the dusty-rock band's debut for Anti- and their first full-length in four years. The group released albums for years through Quarterstick/Touch & Go, rest in peace. Calexico's principals Burns and John Convertino recorded this effort out of New...
- 6/5/2012
- Hitfix
It's no mystery—you don't name your new album _La Grande_ unless you plan on expanding your sonic palette. Nor do you enlist a virtual who's who of veteran overdub buddies (The Dodos, Calexico's Joey Burns, two Decemberists). On her first handful of releases, Oregon-based folkie Laura Gibson has made a career out of barely playing, with a lonesome country-jazz voice that floats softly, like a ghost through a windowpane.
- 1/24/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Today we celebrate the brilliance of Corona's marketing team in discerning that Americans are extremely fond of cultural holidays that we perceive to be centered around drinking themed alcohol (see: St.Patrick's Day) and that any excuse to eat nachos is a good one. It sends a clear and coherent message to other cultures that we will adopt your fun holidays with glee but god forbid you ever try to move here. I do not yet have a comically oversized margarita in my hand, but as I'm writing this it's not even 2:30pm, so it's only a matter of time. Of course, if you're not in a celebratory mood, it appears that the Thursday night shows are new and where they're supposed to be for like, the second week in a row now which shouldn't be remarkable but unfortunately is. Here's your Thursday night TV:...
- 5/5/2011
- by Intern Rusty
One of the great modern cinematic pranksters, director Todd Haynes has managed to artfully carve out his place holding up a fun house mirror to pop music's eccentric excess.
He started this trend with his debut film, "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story," in which he used Barbie dolls to tell the title singer's tragic battle with anorexia, then took things up a flamboyant notch with his Bowie-tastic glam rock tribute "Velvet Goldmine."
After Haynes tip-toed around the Bob Dylan legacy by having six different actors and actresses play him in "I'm Not There," we assumed his next take on music would be even more fractured.
Wrong. Turns out Haynes is ready to turn his gaze head-on to Kentucky's premiere jam band, My Morning Jacket, by directing one of their upcoming live performances. The New York Times says it's all a part of American Express' "Unstaged" series, which previously paired Terry Gilliam with Arcade Fire,...
He started this trend with his debut film, "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story," in which he used Barbie dolls to tell the title singer's tragic battle with anorexia, then took things up a flamboyant notch with his Bowie-tastic glam rock tribute "Velvet Goldmine."
After Haynes tip-toed around the Bob Dylan legacy by having six different actors and actresses play him in "I'm Not There," we assumed his next take on music would be even more fractured.
Wrong. Turns out Haynes is ready to turn his gaze head-on to Kentucky's premiere jam band, My Morning Jacket, by directing one of their upcoming live performances. The New York Times says it's all a part of American Express' "Unstaged" series, which previously paired Terry Gilliam with Arcade Fire,...
- 5/3/2011
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
By Aaron Schock (director of the documentary “Circo”)
(premiering at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival)
The inspiration to make “Circo” was a desire to reverse the direction of the documentary lens that has typically looked at Mexico only from the border up and singularly through the subject of immigration. Instead, I wanted to go deep into the Mexican countryside and find a story that could communicate both the richness and the complexities of a vast culture and social order unfamiliar to most Americans. My original plan was to make a film about corn farmers. But one night while I was in a small village doing field research, a traveling circus came to town.
That night I went to the circus. The plan changed.
Over the next several days, I got to know the family that had brought this little bit of magic and diversion to this poor farming town. The...
(premiering at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival)
The inspiration to make “Circo” was a desire to reverse the direction of the documentary lens that has typically looked at Mexico only from the border up and singularly through the subject of immigration. Instead, I wanted to go deep into the Mexican countryside and find a story that could communicate both the richness and the complexities of a vast culture and social order unfamiliar to most Americans. My original plan was to make a film about corn farmers. But one night while I was in a small village doing field research, a traveling circus came to town.
That night I went to the circus. The plan changed.
Over the next several days, I got to know the family that had brought this little bit of magic and diversion to this poor farming town. The...
- 3/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Aaron Schock (director of the documentary “Circo”)
(premiering at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival)
The inspiration to make “Circo” was a desire to reverse the direction of the documentary lens that has typically looked at Mexico only from the border up and singularly through the subject of immigration. Instead, I wanted to go deep into the Mexican countryside and find a story that could communicate both the richness and the complexities of a vast culture and social order unfamiliar to most Americans. My original plan was to make a film about corn farmers. But one night while I was in a small village doing field research, a traveling circus came to town.
That night I went to the circus. The plan changed.
Over the next several days, I got to know the family that had brought this little bit of magic and diversion to this poor farming town. The...
(premiering at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival)
The inspiration to make “Circo” was a desire to reverse the direction of the documentary lens that has typically looked at Mexico only from the border up and singularly through the subject of immigration. Instead, I wanted to go deep into the Mexican countryside and find a story that could communicate both the richness and the complexities of a vast culture and social order unfamiliar to most Americans. My original plan was to make a film about corn farmers. But one night while I was in a small village doing field research, a traveling circus came to town.
That night I went to the circus. The plan changed.
Over the next several days, I got to know the family that had brought this little bit of magic and diversion to this poor farming town. The...
- 3/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Following the tragic shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords this past weekend, many throughout the world’s thoughts have been with the congresswoman—who remains in critical condition at this time. As vigils continued to be held in honor of Giffords as well as the other victims of the Tuscon shooting, many Southwestern musicians have used their music to pay their respects. On Sunday, NPR briefly spoke with Calexico frontman Joey Burns about his friendship with Giffords as well as her involvement in Tuscon’s local music scene....
- 1/10/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
The Cinema Eye Honors, devoted to highlighting the best of the year's nonfiction films, have flipped for Lixin Fan's fantastic "Last Train Home," which follows a family of migrant workers as they struggle to stay connected while living separated by hundreds of miles. "Last Train Home" received the most nominations -- seven -- while Banksy's "Exit Through The Gift Shop" and Afghanistan documentary "Armadillo" each received six. The award ceremony will take place on January 18 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and will be broadcast on the Documentary Channel.
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
- 11/5/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Joey Burns would be the first to admit it was a tangent, but he tried explaining how his viewing the documentary “The Cove” and Tilda Swinton’s Italy-bound “I Am Love” precisely conveys the unique position his band Calexico is in. The word “possibilities” was bandied about. So was “imagination” and the concept of “paying it” or “moving it” forward as the rest of the industry – even the country – moves backward. Swinton’s character in “Love,” for instance, undergoes “impossible reinvention. She had all these contradictions and expectations from her family, but all of a sudden there’s another existence that comes...
- 10/6/2010
- Hitfix
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