Man, these are some strange days, I feel like I am living in a bad movie, like this can’t be really happening, but it is. And yes, a year of great loss, so many of the very best songwriters and ...

John Convertino and Joey Burns have been performing as Calexico since 1996. Their latest album is called Algiers. At 11 a.m. on a weekday, Calexico rehearses for its upcoming tour in a cramped studio ...

When Howe Gelb moved from the Los Angeles area back to Tucson in 1992, two friends he met there followed: percussionist John Convertino and a young bassist named Joey Burns. Together, the trio become ...

A dozen years after they had to bow out of a concert with their hometown Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Calexico’s Joey Burns and John Convertino made good on the date on Saturday, Jan. 13. TSO Music ...

Tejano-loving indie stars Joey Burns and John Convertino visit the World Cafe studios for a four-song set. Calexico On World Cafe It's not easy to pin a single genre on Calexico. Joey Burns and John ...

Located on California's border with Mexico, Calexico is an actual town. To multi-instrumentalist Joey Burns and percussionist John Convertino, however, it's more a state of mind. The Tucson-based duo ...

Baking on the parched soil of southern Arizona, just north of the Mexican border, and surrounded by mountains to north and cactus forests to the south, Tucson is no one's idea of paradise. Yet, ...

John Convertino died peacefully on November 4, 2019, surrounded by his loving family. He was 92 years old. A first generation Italian-American, captain of his high school varsity basketball team, ...

It’s a mid-December morning and Calexico founders Joey Burns and John Convertino are joining me for breakfast at Hotel Congress. They’re both a little weary until they get some coffee in them. Last ...

Something about the vibe of this completely wonderful album, and the milieu which its record label inhabits, puts one in mind of Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's self-published limited-editions of ...

Burns, along with drummer John Convertino, make up the band Calexico. The Tucson, Ariz. band is known for music that is inspired by southwest border region they live in, blending multiple musical ...