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Califone — All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) October 28, 2009 3:00 pm
For years, Tim Rutilli has been created dissonant blues-drenched experimental post-rock, first as the leader of Red Red Meat, then initially alone as Califone. What started as solo experimentation has evolved into a Chicago-based musical collective involving the majority of RRM members in a sort of Red Red Meat v2.0. While it may seem far-...
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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) October 31, 2006 8:20 pm
How many bands come back from the brink of break-up to produce some of their best and most innovative work? The list is ever-growing, and now Califone are on it. Roots & Crowns is a significant departure from the band's earlier work. Far more electronically inspired than its predecessors, it sounds like Tim Rutili has been listening almost...
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Radio Programmers Vote For Beck

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) November 14, 2006 7:00 pm
Municipal elections were held across Canada on Monday, and it got me thinking. If it's all about image, why are we wasting valuable time on dull political candidates? Why don't we start to vote for entertainment or sports celebrities? Could you imagine Beck or Steven Tyler running for the American presidency versus Gwen Stefani or Madonna?...
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Califone Go Back To Their Roots

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) November 2, 2006 6:00 pm
Califone's new record is one of the only discs that you might spin this year that sounds like two completely different bands playing at once. At one end of Roots & Crowns is the band, whose sound is influenced by everything from Broken Social Scene to Can to Tom Waits. At the other are Tim Rutili's hushed vocals and the record's incredibly...
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Califone Unite Past And Future With Roots & Crowns

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) August 15, 2006 5:00 pm
Experimental folkies Califone have completed their latest album, Roots & Crowns, which will be released on October 10 via Thrill Jockey. On the label's Califone web page, songwriter Tim Rutili describes the new disc as "uniting where you come from — your roots — with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become —...
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