“So Calexico is the greatest band in the world that you don’t listen to – you plebian fool – and I’ve always loved their border stylings and combination of rockingness, sadness, and dreaminess… I remembered that on the way over I had been bopping to my very favorite Calexico song: “The Crystal Frontier”.
That’s when something from that song, my experiences in Tucson, The Wire and Changeling: The Lost crossed over and made a spark – I was going to run a game where the player characters were polleros – immigrant smugglers who brought human cargo over the border. Dodging the police, avoiding entanglements in drug gangs, and their adventures in the creepiness of ghost towns, empty deserts, angry ghosts, and desperation.
— JDCorley’s thread on StoryGames (click through for more music links)