Califone

Local labels, musicians, and clubs are rallying to the aid of Gary "Elvis" Schepers, who's been at Swedish Covenant Hospital since December 11, fighting an infection in his left foot that at one point threatened to cost him his leg. Read More

Every year, I make a mix CD of my favorite songs. Read More

Califone , whose recent All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Secretly Canadian) is one of the year's best albums, are preparing to embark on another round of road gigs in late January. Read More

Local labels, musicians, and clubs are rallying to the aid of Gary "Elvis" Schepers, who's been at Swedish Covenant Hospital since December 11, fighting an infection in his left foot that at one point threatened to cost him his leg. Read More

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers , the film that accompanies Califone 's new album of the same name, will be making its theatrical premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah this January. Read More

Minsk, "With Echoes in the Movement of Stone" (Relapse): Besides providing the year's coolest album title, this Chicago/Peoria quartet delivers a cerebral yet crushing mix of tribal drumming, astral guitar texture, monks-in-a-monastery vocals and progressive structure, topped with a sense of the epic. Read More

Local labels, musicians, and clubs are rallying to the aid of Gary "Elvis" Schepers, who's been at Swedish Covenant Hospital since December 11, fighting an infection in his left foot that at one point threatened to cost him his leg. Read More

Tim Rutili's band, Califone, may be at the peak of its powers on its recent album "All My Friends Are Funeral Singers" and, song after song, show no signs of waning. Read More

Having run through the competition and midnight programs on my initial look at the Sundance lineup for 2010 I just began digging in to the other parts of the festival today and what did I find? Read More

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