Hey everyone, a short, quick announcement for you: 

Baby Alright, Tim Rutili & Jim Becker of Califone, The Judy Green, and DJ Bobby Conn. will be playing the Hideout on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 9PM. It’s a benefit for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. 

Hope to see you there!

Pitchfork:

With Bunny, all of a sudden Red Red Meat seemed artier, more hidden and inscrutable. Rutili has always spoken in riddles, content to braid together phrases or even single words that sound pleasing to the ear, but here the fragmentation became more extreme. Somehow, when the syllables pile up and the flow of vowels and consonants rides the arc of the music, the effect could be sublime. “Mink-eyed, marble-eyed/ In the gauze, in the weeds/ By the drain, red on pale/ There’s a nail by the vent,” goes the chorus of “Gauze”, Bunny Gets Paid’s stone classic and a contender for the best song Rutili has written. Who knows what it means. But if you can picture a scrubby patch of weeds and in it a clump of gauze, possibly soiled, twitching in the breeze, and the disconnected image of decay stirs something in you, you’re on your way to falling in love with Red Red Meat.

2. Thursday there’s another RRM show at SxSW in Austin at the Radio Room for the SubPop showcase. We hope to see you there!

3. On the Califone front, we have finished recording a new album. We just finished the last of the mixing a few days ago. We will hit you with a title and tracklist soon. It is a killer and we are mighty excited about this one. Lots more Califone news coming soon.

And we hope everyone is very good and enjoying the coming springtime!

Be well, love, Kalifone

Greetings! A remastered MP3 of “Gauze” just went up at SubPop, so we thought we’d relay it on to you. Click here to check it out.

Tim says: “Lots happening out here.” More good news is on the way!

Don’t miss: Upcoming RRM Shows!

Set I: James Falzone’s Allos Musica
James Falzone (clarinet), Cathy Kuna (cello), Adam Larrabee (guitar & mandolin), Tim Mulvenna (hand drums & percussion).

Set II: Gray/Becker/Roebke
Darin Gray (bass), Jim Becker (fiddle), Jason Roebke (bass)

Red Read Meat will be playing two shows at the Empty Bottle, March 17 and 18. You can get tickets at Ticketweb by clicking here and here.

RRM is also scheduled to play SxSW March 19 and 21st. We’ll get those details to you soon.

And! As some of you may know, RRM’s Bunny Gets Paid (which Pitchfork recently called one of the best albums of the 90s) has gotten the remastered/expanded/deluxed edition treatment, and that’s scheduled to be released by SubPop on March 24. You can preorder it here, and if you do, you can listen to it instantaneously.

Tim’s in Chicago working on the new Califone record.

December 14 – Berlin – Babylon Kino
December 16 – Köln – Sonic Ballroom
December 17 – Siegen – Vortex
December 18 – Duisburg – Steinbruch
December 19 – Saarbrücken – Sparte 4
December 20 – Passau – ProLi
December 21 – München – Werkstattkino

A Big Brain Benefit for Diane Izzo
Sunday November 9, 2008 at 7:00PM
School of the Art Institute Ballroom
112 S. Michigan Ave

Tickets: $20
Information: (773) 508-0666

Featuring: Califone, Waco Brothers w/ Sally Timms, Robbie Fulks, Vernon Tonges, and Beau O’Reilly and the Crooked Mouth String Band

9-ish Wummin
10-ish Jim Becker, Tim Kinsella, Butchy Fuego and Ryan Weinstein
11-ish Pillars and Tongues

Hope to see you there!