Mariachi Luz de Luna showed up at his home on the night before Joey Burns and his family were set to leave Tucson for Boise, Idaho, in summer 2020. As they serenaded Burns, one half of the popular ...

Remember back in the late 90s when Calexico’s combination of windswept Spaghetti Western and Mexican music on early albums like Black Light and Hot Rail was daring and adventurous? Those days seem a ...

Calexico has built a career in exploring uncharted waters. Inspired by their Southwestern high desert origins, their music shares a mystique that provides possibilities for rock, jazz, psychedelia, ...

Guitarist Joey Burns once heard somebody say there are two kinds of holiday albums: ones that cover all the classic Christmas standards and others that are a little more experimental and creative.

NEW YORK CITY, New York — Joey Burns, the guitarist and singer of the rock band Calexico, is sitting just a few blocks from Ground Zero, looking across the water at the Statue of Liberty. It is the ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Over the past decade, many people have heard the band Calexico without knowing who they were listening to. Its Tex-Mex country rock sounds have been featured on countless NPR ...

Earlier this year, the long-running Southwest band Calexico released another album, El Mirador. They're about to head out on tour in a couple weeks, and today they've returned with the one-off track, ...

A Tucson band went to space over the weekend - or at least its music did. A song by local band Calexico was used to wake up the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour. The song, "Slowness," is about two ...

In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono band recorded the single “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” with the Harlem Community Choir. The track is both a holiday standard and a protest song, and it ...