But the guitarist and vocalist of the Black Keys has one portable record player that he considers a favorite: the vintage, all-in-one Califone. (It’s so beloved that, in the new album he ...

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 ...

Super Bowl Sunday’s installment was a new Califone track called “Comedy.” Over a sighing piano foundation and guitar theatrics that serve as a reminder for how this band set the template for ...

The rootsy Chicago band Califone gave us their Stitches album last year, and a new video for the album track “Movie Music Kills A Kiss” follows “Frosted Tips” and “We Are A Payphone ...

If last year's Drool Sucker EP dug into the band's shoegaze-by-way-of-Sonic-Youth-noise side, then "Califone," from the forthcoming Creep EP, opens its production palette. Where past releases ...

Califone’s music sounds like it’s perpetually in the process of metamorphosis, as if you’ve caught these songs at the moment when their shapes have just become discernible. Clatter coheres ...

The article below appears to contain plagiarism, and The Michigan Daily no longer stands by its content. Morgan Morel Califone left the Michigan Union on Friday with several audience members writhing.

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 ...

Califone are currently on tour with Wilco. On Wednesday, March 17th, you can catch them at SXSW where they’ll be playing the official BrooklynVegan showcase at Club DeVille along with Serena ...

John Wenzel Califone/Brent Green Five years ago, budding animated filmmaker Brent Green contacted his five favorite bands, offering collaboration. The Flaming Lips, Tom Waits and Smog never respon ...

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 ...