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 ...

So it’s wild to realize Califone haven’t released an album in seven years, and it’s exciting to learn they’re about to rectify that. The group’s last new album was Stitches in 2013.

Chicago band Califone combine early American folk and blues with off-kilter electronic sounds that gather themselves into mesmerizing, well-worn grooves. "Quicksand/Cradlesnakes," their fifth ...

Tim Rutili, the frontman of the earthy, experimental folk act Califone, has several superstitions regarding making music and playing it live. Some he won’t divulge but others he tells with a wry ...

Califone’s music is like a half-remembered dream or a mysterious, plotless film, veering from pleasantly womb-like to inexplicably creepy. Here, the Chicago band take a straighter path on their ...

On the one hand, the Addison native enjoys looking back at “Roomsound,” the debut full-length album by his adventurous rock-blues-folk-electronic band, Califone, that's getting a deluxe ...

Califone, the experimental Chicago roots-rock band, haven’t released an album since 2009’s All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, but they’re back this fall with a new one called Stitches.

Califone's new Echo Mine was brought to life as others were losing theirs, which imbues the album with a resonance Tim Rutili and his collaborators could not have expected when work began on it a ...

Califone mostly resist the urge to fashion facsimiles of old roots styles, preferring strange new forms with abstract electronics and free-jazz sax. That said, some of their best work appears on ...