Twenty years (give or take a few months) after their first Aotearoa gig at the legendary Tamaki Makaurau venue The Kings Arms Tavern, Calexico, are once again back touring on the back of their break-through meisterwerk album Feast of Wire, released twenty years ago and lovingly repackaged as a double album in 2023 .
Out of the hundreds of people we spoke to this past year, here are the Top 10 interviews we think are the most memorable, entertaining, informative, profound or just plain fun.
Calexico is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album, Feast Of Wire with a tour that brings them to New Zealand in February. Here is Joey Burns to explain.
Here’s is Calexico’s Joey Burns expressing his admiration for Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan who passed away age 65.
Nearly 15 years after their first collaboration, Iron & Wine and Calexico mix it up again.
Here’s another collaboration between Calexico and Iron & Wine.
With a new collaborative album in the offering, Calexico and Iron & Wine present us with a new single, Father Mountain.
The band dubbed ‘desert noir’ is back pushing their sound into dark and alluring new territories on The Thread That Keeps Us.