Maybe you hear it directly, maybe you don’t. But there’s a spirit that sits in between the notes on Algiers, a spirit that guided the record, some decades-old essence of a converted Baptist church ...

The Tucson, Az.-based ensemble Calexico is known for making music that evokes its name, borrowed from a dusty California border town of less than 40,000 inhabitants; sweeping sonic landscapes that ...

The desert rockers soak up some New Orleans spirit, with refreshing results... The seventh album from Joey Burns’ and John Convertino’s border band takes its title not from the Algerian capital, but ...

Formed in Tucson, Ariz. Calexico sonically embodies the cultural diversity of the Southwest. The Mexican and Spanish influences on their sound are profound but never gimmicky. The band knows when to ...

8 p.m. Sunday; Aladdin Theater, 3017 S.E. Milwaukie Ave.; $22.50 When it was released last month, "Algiers," the seventh studio record by , came with narrative that read like a road map. The band, ...

“And Tucson is very much in parallel with that.” Perhaps that is why, despite the songs being written and the basic tracks recorded in New Orleans, Algiers retains signature Calexico sound and lyrical ...

The story of this album is the story of one song. Sustained exposure to Joey Burns and John Convertino's seventh studio long-player drives you to their back catalogue, vaulting multiple genres – fado, ...

It is a common occurrence for artists with long careers to try and change their surroundings in order to give themselves new stimuli, and therefore reignite the muse - Paul Simon did it with his trip ...

Joey Burns of Calexico at New Orleans Jazz Fest 2013 The Tucson, Ariz.,-based desert-rock band Calexico recorded its latest album, 'Algiers,' at New Orleans' Living Room Studio. After his set Sunday ...