Calexico is one of my all time favorite bands and always puts on a long, solid show. This time was a disappointment -- too short a set, and almost all of it was new stuff. Some of the new stuff was great, but it would have been nice to hear more than just "crystal frontier" from ye olden days.
I&W -- jeeez, talk about boring. It sounds pretty for a while but there's nothing special about it, and gets repetitive very quickly. Nothing that you wouldn't expect from an average coffeehouse bearded dude trying to make some extra bucks for grad school. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
The mexican who does the animal sounds and the traditional music... kind of a shtick. But his music was more involving than I&W and it was nice to see something a little different, even if, in the end, he was also a little one dimensional.
The combined set, man, that really showed where the talent was. Calexico. Everything they touched added something to the music. When it started to become too iron & wineish, it was over.
