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Calexico

Calexico is a group from the US, active since 1996.

Group US since 1996 indie rock american folk rock
TOTAL PLAYS
333
SONGS PLAYED
126
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-14 11:46 · 6 Music — "Ballad Of Cable Hogue 2001"
LAST PLAYED
3 days ago · 6 Music — "Woven Birds"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
40 30 20 10 0
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 316 95%
Radio 2 14 4%
Radio 1 3 1%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 21:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Crystal Frontier 18 2023-06-20
2 Woven Birds 16 2026-05-18
3 Victor Jara's Hands 12 2018-12-04
4 Quattro 11 2023-05-03
5 El Picador 11 2022-04-07
6 Quattro (World Drifts In) 8 2022-11-03
7 El Picador - Summer Sundae 2006 8 2016-06-13
8 Alone Again Or 7 2018-03-31
9 Spokes - BBC Session 19/10/1997 6 2024-07-11
10 Crystal Frontier - Summer Sundae 2006 6 2016-06-13
11 Maybe On Monday - Latitude - 19/07/2013 6 2013-07-22
12 Splitter 6 2012-10-09
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-18 01:06 Woven Birds 6 Music
2026-05-17 14:13 Woven Birds 6 Music
2025-12-19 17:58 Gift X-change 6 Music
2025-01-27 02:43 Woven Birds 6 Music
2025-01-26 15:47 Woven Birds 6 Music
2024-07-11 21:07 Spokes - BBC Session 19/10/1997 6 Music
2024-07-10 21:19 Sanchez (Radio 1 Session, 19th Oct, 1997) 6 Music
2024-07-09 21:20 Paper Route - BBC Session 19/10/1997 6 Music
2024-07-08 21:15 Wash (Radio 1 Session, 19th Oct, 1997) 6 Music
2024-01-02 23:01 El Mirador 6 Music
2023-09-10 18:33 Black Heart 6 Music
2023-09-03 23:29 Ritual Road Map 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

126 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Across the Wire — 4 ▶
Across The Wire - Latitude - 19/07/2013 — 3 ▶
Across The Wire - Latitude 19.07.13 — 1 ▶
Across The Wire - Latitude Festival - 19/07/2013 — 1 ▶
Across The Wire - Summer Sundae 2006 — 1 ▶
Algiers — 2 ▶
All Systems Red (Summer Sundae, 12 Aug 2006) — 1 ▶
All Systems Red - Summer Sundae 2006 — 4 ▶
Alone Again Or — 7 ▶
Alone Again Or (bonus track) — 1 ▶
Alone Again Or (Summer Sundae, 12 Aug 2006) — 2 ▶
Alone Again Or - Summer Sundae 2006 — 4 ▶
Alone Again Or... — 1 ▶
Bag of Death — 1 ▶
Ballad of Cable Hogue — 5 ▶
Ballad Of Cable Hogue - 2001 — 4 ▶
Ballad Of Cable Hogue 2001 — 2 ▶
Black Heart — 5 ▶
Black Heart (Radio 1 Session, 20 Apr 2004) — 3 ▶
Close Behind — 1 ▶
Coyoacan — 1 ▶
Crooked Road and The Briar — 1 ▶
Cruel — 2 ▶
Crystal Frontier — 18 ▶
Crystal Frontier (Summer Sundae, 12 Aug 2006) — 2 ▶
Crystal Frontier - 2001 — 3 ▶
Crystal Frontier - Summer Sundae 2006 — 6 ▶
Crystal Frontier 2001 — 2 ▶
Cumbia de Donde — 5 ▶
Cumbia de Monda — 1 ▶
Deep Down (Summer Sundae, 12 Aug 2006) — 1 ▶
Deep Down - Summer Sundae 2006 — 5 ▶
Detroit Steam — 1 ▶
Drape - BBC Session 19/10/1997 — 1 ▶
El Mirador — 4 ▶
El Picador — 11 ▶
El Picador (Summer Sundae, 12 Aug 2006) — 3 ▶
El Picador - Summer Sundae 2006 — 8 ▶
Epic (6 Music Session, 18 Sep 2012) — 1 ▶
Falling From The Sky — 1 ▶
Flores y Tamales — 3 ▶
Fractured Air (Tornado Watch) — 1 ▶
Frank's Tavern — 2 ▶
Gift X-change — 1 ▶
Girl in the Forest — 1 ▶
Green Grows The Holly — 1 ▶
Guero Canelo - Summer Sundae 2006 — 2 ▶
Gypsy's Curse — 1 ▶
Harness the Wind — 1 ▶
Hot Rail — 2 ▶
House Of Valparaiso — 2 ▶
Inspiration 6 Music session 12/10/2008 — 1 ▶
Jesus And Tequlia - Summer Sundae 2006 — 5 ▶
Letter To Bowie Knife - Summer Sundae 2006 — 2 ▶
Liberada — 1 ▶
Live From Ssw: Guero Canelo — 1 ▶
Longboard — 1 ▶
Lost In Space - 2001 — 1 ▶
Lost In Space 2001 — 2 ▶
Man Made Lake (Radio 2 Session, 11 Oct 2008) — 1 ▶
Man-Made Lake - Radio 2 Session 11/10/2008 — 3 ▶
Maybe On Monday — 2 ▶
Maybe On Monday (6 Music Session, 18 Sep 2012) — 4 ▶
Maybe On Monday - Latitude - 19/07/2013 — 6 ▶
Maybe On Monday/Across The Wire — 1 ▶
Memphis — 1 ▶
Mi Burrito Sabanero — 1 ▶
Miles from the Sea — 1 ▶
Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal) - 2001 — 2 ▶
Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal) 2001 — 2 ▶
Muleta — 5 ▶
Not Even Stevie Nicks — 4 ▶
Not Even Stevie Nicks (Radio 1 Session, 20 Apr 2004) — 1 ▶
Not Even Stevie Nicks - Summer Sundae 2006 — 2 ▶
Paper Route - BBC Session 19/10/1997 — 2 ▶
Para (6 Music Session, 18 Sep 2012) — 1 ▶
Puerto — 1 ▶
Quattro — 11 ▶
Quattro (radio edit) — 1 ▶
Quattro (World Drifts In) — 8 ▶
Quattro - World Drifts In — 2 ▶
Ritual Road Map — 2 ▶
Roll Tango — 1 ▶
Roll Tango (Edit) — 1 ▶
Sanchez (Radio 1 Session, 19th Oct, 1997) — 1 ▶
Sanchez - BBC Session 19/10/1997 — 4 ▶
Shortboard — 1 ▶
Slowness (Radio 2 session, 11 Oct 2008) — 1 ▶
Slowness (Radio 2 Session, 11th Oct 2008) — 1 ▶
Slowness - Radio 2 Session 11/10/2008 — 2 ▶
Splitter — 6 ▶
Splitter (6 Music Session, 18 Sep 2012) — 3 ▶
Splitter - 6Music Session 18/09/2012 — 1 ▶
Splitter - BBC Radio 6 Music session 18/09/2012 — 1 ▶
Splitter - Glastonbury - 29/06/2013 — 1 ▶
Splitter - Latitude - 19/07/2013 — 5 ▶
Spokes - BBC Session 19/10/1997 — 6 ▶
Stray — 1 ▶
Stray - 2001 — 2 ▶
Stray - Summer Sundae 2006 — 1 ▶
Stray 2001 — 2 ▶
Sunken Waltz (Radio 1 Session, 20 Apr 2004) — 2 ▶
Sunken Waltz - Glastonbury - 29/06/2013 — 1 ▶
Sunken Waltz - Summer Sundae 2006 — 2 ▶
The Ballad of Cable Hogue — 4 ▶
The Crooked Rose and the Briar — 2 ▶
The News About William - Radio 2 session 11/10/2008 — 2 ▶
The Ride - 2001 — 4 ▶
The Ride 2001 — 1 ▶
The Ride Part 2 — 1 ▶
Two Silver Trees — 3 ▶
Two silver trees (6 Music Session, 12 Oct 2008) — 1 ▶
Two Silver Trees (Radio 2 Session, 11 Oct 2008) — 1 ▶
Two Silver Trees - Radio 2 session 11/10/2008 — 2 ▶
Two Silver Trees 6 Music Session 12/10/2008 — 1 ▶
Under the Wheels — 1 ▶
Victor Jara's Hands — 12 ▶
Voices in the Field — 1 ▶
Víctor Jara's Hands - Radio 2 session 11/10/2008 — 1 ▶
Waitomo — 1 ▶
walls came down — 1 ▶
Wash (BBC Session, 19 Oct 1997) — 2 ▶
Wash (Radio 1 Session, 19th Oct, 1997) — 1 ▶
Wash - BBC Session 19/10/1997 — 2 ▶
Woven Birds — 16 ▶
Writer's Minor Holiday — 2 ▶