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Pickathon 2011 Lineup Led By Mavis Staples, The Sadies, Bill Callahan, Many More

Taking place the weekend of Aug. 5-7 at Pendarvis Farm near Portland, Ore., Pickathon Festival showcases the best in indie-roots music. Pickathon prides itself on providing the “best festival experience in the country.” This includes a 100% plastic free environment, workshops and a schedule where every artists plays at least two sets over three days across six unique performance spaces. This includes a stage that must be hiked to through the woods, an intimate open air late night stage, the workshop barn where The Decemberists recorded their recent album, and a large pavilion that is “equal parts art and function.”...  read more

Catching Up With... Tim Rutili of Califone and All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

Sometimes, when you watch five movies a day at Sundance, they tend to start blurring together. But there was no way to forget...  read more

Eight Films at Sundance With Musical Connections

Sundance has always been a time to experience great music. This year, music plays a particularly big role in several films, and these are just eight that I'm going to try to see...  read more

Califone's Tim Rutili Talks Directorial Debut

Once, when Tim Rutli's grandfather thought he invited witches home, he chased them out the door with salt...  read more

Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

Califone’s music sounds like it’s perpetually in the process of...  read more

Download Califone's "Ape-Like"

Download Califone's "Ape-Like" here.Califone's All My Friends are Funeral Singers is out now on Dead Oceans....  read more

Califone to Turn Rock Clubs Into Arthouse Theaters This Fall

Mixed media at a rock show is nothing new; Cloud Cult shows feature onstage painters, String Cheese Incident sets have included Cirque du Soleil-type action and countless bands bring the big screens for mid-performance film clips. But the not-rock media tends to supplement the music, not the other way around. Chicago's ethereal roots rock act Califone wants to rethink that one. ...  read more

Califone Announces New Album Details

Califone has announced that its upcoming album, All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, will be released on Oct. 6. The band's previous release, Roots & Crowns, earned the #18 spot on our top 100 albums of 2006....  read more

Califone Announces May 2007 Tour

Chicago-based experimental folk outfit Califone will spend most of May on the road, hitting a number of spots up, down, and around the West coast and briefly traversing inland for a few shows in Wisconsin. The band’s most recent LP, October 2006’s Roots and Crowns, landed at #18 on Paste’s list of Top 100 Albums of 2006. Tour stops include: May: 3 - Malibu, Calif. @ Malibu Performing Arts Center 4 - Santa Cruz, Calif. @ The Attic 7 - Reno, Nev. @ The Green Room 9 - Bend, Ore. @ The Grove 10 - Eugene, Ore. @ Sam Bond’s...  read more

Califone Dreams of the Heron King

It’s fitting that Califone’s new record, Heron King Blues, get its inspiration from the mists of antiquity and the dream world of band-founder Tim Rutili, since this is a group whose music virtually defies time...  read more