Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

Joey Burns and John Convertino's Calexico is still riding the cultural divide, blending Southwestern balladry and Latin influence with brooding indie rock. Its song "Crystal Frontier" even reached outer space on a recent Shuttle mission . But Burns and Convertino are just normal dudes who write about public hangings and bloodthirsty posses. There's little of that desert-noir drama -- found in Calexico 's classic tunes "Crooked Road and the Briar" and "Black Heart" respectively -- in this video for "Two Silver Trees." No, the first single from Calexico's newest effort Carried to Dust , [...]