Following the dark digicoustical tone poetry of 2004's "Heron King Blues," the new album comes closest to Red Red Meat than anything Califone has done in the eight years since leaving that band… By ...

For a band whose members have their hands in all aspects of Chicago’s thriving independent music scene, the guys in Califone are incredibly humble. Between quietly releasing seven full-length ...

Though he's often asked about his former band Red Red Meat - especially given that band's occasional reunions - for the past dozen years Tim Rutili has fronted the far more experimental Califone.

This vinyl-only reissue gathers Califone's two self-titled EPs that were collected on a CD under this name in 2002, but adds a cache of unreleased Red Red Meat material to attract completists. That ...

On the one hand, the Addison native enjoys looking back at “Roomsound,” the debut full-length album by his adventurous rock-blues-folk-electronic band, Califone, that's getting a deluxe reissue on the ...

Though he’s not likely to admit it, Tim Rutili was a key figure in Chicago’s burgeoning independent music scene in the ’90s. After moving to the city to study film at Columbia College, Rutili fronted ...

Chicago based Califone get their moniker from a manufacturer of audio equipment. They are an experimental band of musicians headed by main man Tim Rutili (formerly of band Red Red Meat). Quite a ...

Down in the valley with Greg Brown; Indie folk punk from Ani DiFranco; The electronic experiments of Dani Siciliano; Finger-style guitarist Harris Newman; Folk meets blues electronica in the music of ...