On villagers, the eighth album from Tim Rutili’s steadfast Califone project, the singer bemoans “a Roxy Music cassette dying in the dashboard sun.” That image serves as a fitting description of the sound here: open pop melodies and soulful singing at the mercy of time, nature, and memory. Rutili joins us to discuss his creative process, after funeral disassociation, and how reality television influenced the album as much as, or more than, his lofty cinematic obsessions.
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Tim Rutili & Craig Ross :: Choke
On 10 Seconds to Collapse , the new full-length collaboration between Tim Rutili of Red Red Meat/ Califone and Craig Ross (Shearwater, Lisa Germano, Spoon, Patty Griffin, Robert Plant , Daniel Johnston), the duo tear down […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Califone @ The Bootleg, January 6
Our first show of 2014 – Aquarium Drunkard presents Califone at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, Monday, January 6th. The Luyas support. We’re giving away tickets to AD readers. To land a pair, leave […]
Catching Up With Califone :: The AD Interview
The sound of Califone has always been tattered: Delta blues grafted to clattering, deconstructed rock ‘n’ roll, synths hovering over buzzing, droning strings. It’s a patchwork of ideas held together by […]
Sevens :: Califone: “The Orchids”
(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) What starts in a daze often ends in clarity. That’s the way things […]