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.

Califone, whose latest album All My Friends Are Funeral Singers is due out October 6 on Dead Oceans, has confirmed nationwide tour dates this fall including stops in Chicago, New York, and ...

It takes three tries to get Tim Rutili on the phone. The first time, the phone rings with no answer. I leave a sloppy message without even giving a number. The second time, voices fumble, and static ...

Califone performs at Mississippi Studios on Jan. 9, 2014. (David Greenwald/The Oregonian) "I wrote most of these songs in Portland," the Luyas' Jessie Stein announced halfway through the band's ...

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 ...

Named after that age-old line of bulky record players you used to get your groove on with at the school library back in the day, Califone has been helping Americana convert itself from analog to… By ...