The Bay Area Native filmed a cool version of “The News About William” with just acoustic guitar/vocals and trumpet. We think the video, audio, and background came out pretty nicely…hope you like it too!

Sorry about the late notice folks, but we are involved in a drawing for some cool prizes over at the Hoco Festival website. In conjunction with the Artists For Action group you can enter to win raffle items from us, Devotchka, Cris Kirkwood from Meat Puppets, etc. Only $5 to enter… Winners will be picked at the Spoon show tonight at Rialto.

Just added… we’ll be playing a hometown show on Sunday, November 7th in Tucson, AZ at the Rialto! Love it!

For our upcoming tour dates with Arcade Fire we made some new double-sided posters that we’ll be giving away FOR FREE at our merch stand. Below are a couple cell phone pics of what they’ll look like (click for a larger size). Sorry about the grainyness but you get the idea.

Great thanks to Sheila Sachs for designing!

We will be playing on September, 24th in Regina, SK, Canada @ The Exchange. Come on out.

We just added another show for when we’re in Aspen, CO on this Friday. The newly added performance will be at Belly Up Aspen.

In the wake of The Suburbs’ #1 chart debut, Arcade Fire has confirmed another leg of dates stretching from Minnesota to Mexico… and Calexico will be the supporting band!

This installation of North American dates will begin September 22 at the Roy Wilkins Arena in St. Paul MN, swinging through western Canada, the pacific northwestern U.S., and California before concluding October 12 at Monterrey, Mexico’s Banamex Theater.

Here’s a list of dates with Calexico on the bill. For more information and links to tickets visit the TOUR page.

WED 9/22 – St. Paul, MN @ Roy Wilkins Arena
THU 9/23 – Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre
SAT 9/25 – Saskatoon, SK @ Credit Union Centre
SUN 9/26 – Calgary, AB @ Stampede Corral
TUE 9/28 – Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum
WED 9/29 – Seattle, WA @ Key Arena
THU 9/30 – Portland, OR @ Memorial Coliseum
SAT 10/2 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre
SUN 10/10 – Mexico City (MX) @ Palacio de los Deportes
TUE 10/12 – Monterrey (MX) @ Banamex Theater

Last night we kicked off our tour in Vancouver and today we’d like to celebrate by giving away a live album recorded in 2009 at a show we played in Nuremberg, Germany. Please check out the stream, grab the free 320kbps download, tell a friend, and overall…ENJOY!

Here: http://calexico.cashmusic.org/

Calexico, Live in Nuremberg by cashmusic

Many, many thanks to Jesse at CASH Music for doing an amazing job with putting this all together and for coordinating with the team at SoundCloud.

The folks behind the Bonnaroo Festival shot some pretty high-quality footage and just sent us links for three songs from our set. We hope you all enjoy!

first “Roka”
then “Inspiracion”
plus “Bend to the Road”

Also, we just announced that we’ll be playing a show with Wilco and Devotchka on September 3rd in Colorado.