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Calexico

Calexico is an American indie rock band based in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1996, the band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They have recorded a number of albums on Quarterstick Records and City Slang, and their 2005 EP, In the Reins, recorded with Iron & Wine, reached the Billboard 200 album charts. Their musical style is influenced by traditional Latin sounds of mariachi, conjunto, cumbia, and tejano mixed with country, jazz, and post-rock.

The band is named for the border town of Calexico, California, and has been described by some as "desert noir".

Albums

1996 Superstition Highway
1996 Spoke
1998 The Black Light
2000 Hot Rail
2001 Aerocalexico
2003 Feast of Wire
2005 The Book and the Canal
2006 Garden Ruin
2007 Tool Box
2008 Carried to Dust
2012 Algiers
2015 Edge of the Sun
2018 The Thread That Keeps Us
2020 Seasonal Shift
2022 El mirador
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