Listen to two tracks from Califone’s Roots & Crowns and one from Tim Rutili’s soundtrack for The Lost. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player.

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 ...

Following the dark digicoustical tone poetry of 2004's "Heron King Blues," the new album comes closest to Red Red Meat than anything Califone has done in the eight years since leaving that band… By ...

“Roots & Crowns,” the latest album by progressive soundscape architects Califone, is a good reminder of why music is capable of things that literature or film simply cannot achieve. Marshaling an ...

For a band whose members have their hands in all aspects of Chicago’s thriving independent music scene, the guys in Califone are incredibly humble. Between quietly releasing seven full-length ...

Califone, whose latest album All My Friends Are Funeral Singers is due out October 6 on Dead Oceans, has confirmed nationwide tour dates this fall including stops in Chicago, New York, and ...

Ever since he relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles, Califone’s Tim Rutili has found himself in San Diego often. He is close with locals Little White Teeth and estimates that he has played about six ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Bumper-car rhythms, quasi-philosophical lyrics: It’s been nearly a decade since Califone got ...

Califone's show at the Soda Bar fell on a Sunday night, five days after New Year's Eve. The event was a mellow "last hurrah" for the holiday season. A subtle transition into the standard workweeks of ...

Named after that age-old line of bulky record players you used to get your groove on with at the school library back in the day, Califone has been helping Americana convert itself from analog to… By ...