Califone
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

You may have noticed that I added Califone'sAll My Friends are Funeral Singers on my year end list. You may also have noticed that up until now no rev...

What started as a solo project by former Red Red Meat front man Tim Rutili has grown in breadth and stature to become a fully realized band of many co...

Califone is more than just a band, but a brand. Califone is a genre. Califone is a self-contained artistic statement that remains consistent, but flui...

Mixing classic Americana and folk with just enough post-rock innovation, Califone has always seemed both traditional and novel. Each new album does a ...

I used to share a flat with a fellow music journalist. We had a game called “cliché bingo”, where we (after a lot of red wine) came up with as many jo...

Same old, same old. Califone have come to give us more, yes, Califone. The lurching, broken bass rhythm and ephemera effects of opener “Giving Away th...

Active for over a decade now, and here unveiling their eleventh full album (your tally may differ due to the murky status of some of their releases) C...

For years, Tim Rutilli has been created dissonant blues-drenchedexperimental post-rock, first as the leader of Red Red Meat, theninitially alone as Ca...

The concept album comes in many shapes and forms. There’s the ridiculous whiny story concept (My Chemical Romance’s Welcome To The Black P...

Reviewing a band which you know almost nothing about is not the insurmountable challenge it used to be. The internet has changed all that. Gone are th...