Calexico: Bowery Ballroom, New York City

IN MY OLD AGE, I am trying to get hip. So I have temporarily relinquished my inner redneck. Left that twang-and-trash loving gal on the shelf. Braving pre-spring thunderstorms, painfully fashionable Brooklyn residents and an impossible crush at the Bowery Ballroom, I ventured out of my self-imposed constrictions this past weekend to witness the live power of Iceland's Sigur Rós and Tucson, Arizona's Calexico. The result? The latter adventure proved more successful. A delight it was, really.