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Album Stream: Calexico - Selections from Road Atlas 1998-2011

If you’ve just recently become a Calexico fan and missed out on any of the band’s eight self-released tour CDs, you’re in luck. The band is releasing Road Atlas 1998-2011 Nov. 22 on Quarterstick Records.  read more

Exclusive Premiere: Calexico To Release Career-Spanning Box Set

Tucson, Ariz. based Americana band, Calexico, spends a lot of their time travelling across the country playing shows and exploring the different cities they visit. Throughout the decade and a half since guitarist/vocalist Joey Burns and drummer John Convertino first started playing music together Calexico has released six studio LPs and six albums made from tour content.  read more

Album Stream: Tom Russell - Mesabi

Tom Russell is a master songwriter. Having had his songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Nanci Griffith, K.D. Lang and many others artists should make it no big surprise that the release of his 26th album is just around the corner. Mesabi is out on Shout! Factory Sept. 6th but you can hear it all right here.  read more

Amos Lee: Mission Bell

A passing glance at _Mission Bell_ Lee's third full-length album, seems to suggest that the acoustic-slinging songsmith has stumbled upon a winning formula.  read more

Calexico's Joey Burns Discusses Friendship with Representative Giffords

Following the tragic shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords this past weekend, many throughout the world’s thoughts have been with the congresswoman—who remains in critical condition at this time. As vigils continued to be held in honor of Giffords as well as the other victims of the Tuscon shooting, many Southwestern musicians have used their music to pay their respects. On Sunday, NPR briefly spoke with Calexico frontman Joey Burns about his friendship with Giffords as well as her involvement in Tuscon’s local music scene....  read more

City Slang to Celebrate Anniversary with Broken Social Scene, Calexico, Yo La Tengo

The folks at City Slang know how to party. When the German indie label celebrates its 20th anniversary this fall, they’ll be bringing in the likes of Broken Social Scene, Calexico, Menomena and Yo La Tengo for three nights of performances that take place the weekend of Nov. 19....  read more

Tom Russell and Calexico Team Up for New Album

Veteran Texas singer-songwriter Tom Russell has collaborated...  read more

50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time

As we began to compile this list of the 50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time—asking for input from Paste readers, writers and editors—someone suggested that it might be easier to compile a list of artists who haven't covered Dylan. I've listened to literally hundreds of Dylan covers over the course of the past week, trying to weigh choices like, "Who's version of 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time' is better, Nick Drake or Nickel Creek?" But I don't mean to make it sound like grueling work. My biggest take-away from this exercise is that going to Dylan for source...  read more

All The Right Friends: On R.E.M.'s Carnegie Hall Tribute and Benefit Concert

There's an old and unavoidable joke, usually told by hectoring music teachers or waggish elders. You've probably heard it. The set-up goes, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The punchline? "Practice, practice, practice."...  read more

Paste presents: The music of R.E.M. at Carnegie Hall

This March, your humble servants here at Paste, along with Champagne Henriot, Q104.3 and WFUV 90.7 are presenting an evening of R.E.M.'s music. Twenty artists will be covering songs from the catalog of Athens' finest....  read more