Before Tim Rutili was fronting the legendary Chicago experimental folk-rock band Califone and Brian Deck was producing landmark albums like Modest Mouse’s The Moon And Antarctica, they honed their craft in Red Red Meat. The quartet’s noise-damaged version of roots rock — often described as the sound of neon dirt &am...

S. Carey and Califone are both auteur-driven Upper Midwestern musical acts that put their own gorgeous, fragile, strikingly modern spins on folksy rock music. They’re an ideal match, so it makes sense that they’re going on a co-headlining tour together this week. To herald the occasion, Snow Panda has mashed together Califone...

Califone, ex-Red Red Meat frontman Tim Rutili’s longstanding treasure trove of forlorn, chemical-damaged future folk, will head out on another living room tour soon. To drum up some deserved occasion for the jaunt, the band just released an animated video for “Magdalene,” a highlight from last year’s Stitc...

The rootsy Chicago band Califone gave us their Stitches album last year, and a new video for the album track “Movie Music Kills A Kiss” follows “Frosted Tips” and “We Are A Payphone” as the latest video from the LP. Band frontman and occasional filmmaker Tim Rutili directed this video. ...

Califone isn’t one for being showy — even their “interactive” video from earlier this year is a lesson in passivity. The visuals for “We Are A Payphone” look in at someone else’s nostalgia trip, as our unseen protagonist applies meaning and memories to objects the viewer has n...