When not collaborating with Charlotte Gainsbourg on IRM, Beck continues adding covers collections to his Record Club. His (and MGMT and Devendra Banhart's) go at Songs Of Leonard Cohen included mixed results. We have higher hopes for his take on... CONTINUE READING BECK RECRUITS WILCO, FEIST, JAMIE LIDELL FOR SKIP SPENCE "RECORD CLUB" TRIBUTE»
Posted on November 13, 2009 in , (6 comments)
Tags: Beck | Feist | Holiday Shores | Jamie Lidell | Jefferson Airplane | Moby Grape | Skip Spence | Wilco
Canada's known for indie rock, so makes sense you'll find plenty of homegrown talent (BSS, Stars) and international musicians (Wilco, Iron & Wine, Joan As Policewoman) near the slopes at Vancouver's Winter Olympics. More names at CoS.... CONTINUE READING WILCO, BSS, SUN KIL MOON TO PLAY 2010 OLYMPICS»
Posted on October 13, 2009 (4 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Iron And Wine | Joan As Policewoman | Laurie Anderson | Stars | Sun Kil Moon | Wilco
At this point most fans of Radiohead are aware that 7 Worlds Collide is a true-to-the-definition supergroup involving all the people listed in the above headline as well as Phil Selway and others who aren't. What you might've forgotten is... CONTINUE READING NEW 7 WORLDS COLLIDE (ED O'BRIEN/NEIL FINN/JEFF TWEEDY/JOHNNY MARR) - "BODHISATTVA BLUES" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on August 31, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: 7 Worlds Collide | Ed O'Brien | Glenn Kotche | Jeff Tweedy | Johnny Marr | KT Tunstall | Liam Finn | Neil Finn | Phil Selway | Radiohead | Wilco
The eco-friendly Green Man took over Brecon Beacons, Wales this past weekend with a heavy dose of Americana: from midwestern folkies (Bon Iver, Wilco, Andrew Bird) to wailing east coast electropoppers (Animal Collective, Gang Gang Dance) and reinvigorated psych legends... CONTINUE READING GREEN MAN FESTIVAL 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on August 26, 2009 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Andrew Bird | Animal Collective | Beach House | Beth Jeans Houghton | Bon Iver | Camera Obscura | David Thomas | Dirty Three | Emmy The Great | Four Tet | Gang Gang Dance | Green Man Festival | Grizzly Bear | James Yorkston | Jarvis Cocker | Joe Boyd | King Creosote | Robyn Hitchcock | Rodriguez | Roky Erickson | Scott Matthews | The Aliens | The Pictish Trail | The Three Craws | Vetiver | Wilco | Wooden Shjips
As we told you this past fall (and again, later), Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway rejoined ex-Crowded Housed Neil Finn for part two of his 7 Worlds Collide project. The inaugural project, recorded back in 2001, included O'Brien and... CONTINUE READING TAKE A LISTEN TO 7 WORLDS COLLIDE, AKA THE RADIOHEAD WILCO JOHNNY MARR NEIL FINN SUPERGROUP»
Posted on July 30, 2009 (7 comments)
Tags: 7 Worlds Collide | Autolux | Ed O'Brien | Glenn Kotche | Jeff Tweedy | Johnny Marr | KT Tunstall | Liam Finn | Neil Finn | Phil Selway | Radiohead | Wilco
Ticketholding Wilco fans in LA and NYC have already seen Leslie and Tweedy recreate their (The Album) vocal duet in the flesh; last night's Letterman was for the rest of us. Jeff and Feist enjoy a laid back but engaged... CONTINUE READING WILCO & FEIST DO "YOU & I" FOR LETTERMAN»
Posted on July 15, 2009 in (9 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | David Letterman | Feist | Mayer Hawthorne | Wilco
In a few days the city's indie kids will make their way out to Coney Island for the Voice's annual Siren festival, chances are many of the same kids who made the trek last night to see Tweedy and Yo... CONTINUE READING WILCO/YO LA TENGO @ KEYSPAN PARK, CONEY ISLAND 7/13/09»
Posted on July 14, 2009 in , , , (9 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Ed Droste | Feist | Franz Ferdinand | Grizzly Bear | Wilco | Yo La Tengo
Next week, Jesy Fortino, aka Seattle's Tiny Vipers, is releasing her second Sub Pop full length, Life On Earth. Building up and clarifying what we loved about her debut Hands Across The Void, it's one of the year's best. We... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP XCV: HEAR NEW TINY VIPERS, WIN WILCO GOODS»
Posted on July 1, 2009 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Tiny Vipers | Wilco
First Feist joined Grizzly Bear and her old Broken Social Scene pals in Toronto. Now, continuing her goodwill mission, she's ventured all the way to Los Angeles to reprise her Wilco (The Album) contribution "You & I." (Thanks for the... CONTINUE READING WILCO & FEIST DO "YOU & I" LIVE IN L.A.»
Posted on June 26, 2009 in , (17 comments)
Tags: Feist | Wilco
Tweedy and the gang decided to class themselves up for The Tonight Show last night, dusting off the Nudie Suits they debuted at Lollapalooza last year. The band was making good use of an off-night in between a trio of... CONTINUE READING WILCO BRING "YOU NEVER KNOW" TO CONAN »
Posted on June 25, 2009 in (50 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Wilco
According to authorities, the former Wilco guitarist's recent death was the result of an overdose of the pain killer fentanyl, and is being investigated as an accident. Billboard has the details.... CONTINUE READING JAY BENNETT'S DEATH RULED AN OVERDOSE»
Posted on June 23, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Jay Bennett | Wilco
Last night Wilco played the first show in a sold-out three-night run at the Wiltern Theatre, sure to be attended by fans young and old. Whatever your age group, Wilco's playing relentless marathon sets this tour (last night's was over... CONTINUE READING WILCO @ THE WILTERN, LOS ANGELES 6/22/09»
Posted on June 23, 2009 in , (30 comments)
Tags: Jonathan Wilson | Wilco
The last time Scott checked in with the old folks (his favorite folks) of Breakfast At Sulmay's, he requested they do Dirty Projectors next. And so they did. Seeing how polarizing the arty Brooklyn band's Bitte Orca can be among... CONTINUE READING OLD FOLKS REVIEW DIRTY PROJECTORS, INTERVIEW FIERY FURNACES»
Posted on June 22, 2009 in (57 comments)
Tags: Dirty Projecors | DOOM | Phoenix | Raphael Saadiq | The Fiery Furnaces | Wilco | Yo La Tengo
By Scott Lapatine & Amrit Singh Sets from Jimmy Buffet and Bruce Springsteen bookended a day of mellow, familiar dadrock with more mass appeal than the inscrutable indie pop that dominated Friday. Backed by Elvis Perkins In Dearland, the ever... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO 2009: TRENT SAYS GOODBYE, BRUCE SAYS MERRY CHRISTMAS»
Posted on June 14, 2009 in , , (29 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Bonnaroo | Bruce Springsteen | Elvis Costello | Elvis Perkins | Jenny Lewis | MGMT | Nine Inch Nails | of Montreal | The Decemberists | Triumph The Insult Comic Dog | Wilco
The former Wilco guitarist and Titanic Love Affair founding member passed away in his sleep Saturday night. Bennett was a key contributor to the first half of Wilco's discography, and his contentious relationship with frontman Jeff Tweedy was famously chronicled... CONTINUE READING R.I.P. JAY BENNETT»
Posted on May 25, 2009 in (45 comments)
Tags: Jay Bennett | Wilco
A month and change before its proper release, Wilco (The Album) is streaming at Wilco (The Band)'s site. The humped album art might've hinted at something funny, but the sounds are pretty sober (and also just pretty). Maybe the way... CONTINUE READING WILCO (THE ALBUM STREAM)»
Posted on May 13, 2009 (101 comments)
Tags: Dirty Projectors | The Dutchess And The Duke | Wilco
Remember when Wilco album covers used to look like this? Even this? Well if Wilco's Wilco (The Album) album title didn't totally deconstruct any lingering whiff of pomo self-seriousness, welcome to the camel party. Via P4K, you are looking at... CONTINUE READING WILCO (THE ALBUM ART)»
Posted on May 8, 2009 in (55 comments)
Tags: Wilco
Bennett famously left Wilco in 2001, just after working on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and appearing in the I Am Trying To Break Your Heart doc, and just before those things helped turn Wilco into Wilco (The Band). Now he's filed... CONTINUE READING JAY BENNETT SUES JEFF TWEEDY OVER WILCO ROYALTIES»
Posted on May 5, 2009 (28 comments)
Tags: Jay Bennett | Jeff Tweedy | Wilco
Offering post-Mermaid Avenue Guthrie action, Jeff Tweedy & Co. cover "The Jolly Banker," a song that's clearly as relevant as ever. Download it for free if you're "unemployed / underemployed or otherwise broke" (and can promise to make it up... CONTINUE READING NEW WILCO WOODY GUTHRIE COVER»
Posted on May 1, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: Feist | Kurt Cobain | Lovvers | Nirvana | Wilco | Woody Guthrie
Rolling Stone reports that Wilco's seventh album will be titled Wilco (The Album). If you recall, we posted "Wilco (The Song)" when they stopped by Colbert a ways back, so maybe we should've been detectives and guessed the straightforward generic... CONTINUE READING WILCO (THE ALBUM) IS WILCO'S NEW ALBUM TITLE»
Posted on April 28, 2009 in (64 comments)
Tags: Wilco
In advance of a new album this summer, Wilco are releasing the concert film Ashes To American Flags on April 18th. You can check out a full performance clip of Sky Blue Sky's "Side With The Seeds" at ew.com. ... CONTINUE READING WATCH SOME OF WILCO'S ASHES TO AMERICAN FLAGS DVD»
Posted on April 8, 2009 in (6 comments)
Tags: Wilco
The followup to 2007's soothing Sky Blue Sky is out in late June on Nonesuch. In addition to Lolla-fav "One Wing," it's got "You And I" (featuring Feist) and "Wilco (The Song)." Spy more working titles at Wilcoworld with the... CONTINUE READING NEW WILCO LP'S GOT FEIST, "WILCO (THE SONG)"»
Posted on March 27, 2009 (15 comments)
Tags: Feist | Wilco
Yesterday we got a rare glimpse of Phil Selway singer-songwritering at one of the 7 Worlds Collide shows in Auckland this week. As mentioned, the series yielded something just as rare and even more bloggable in Jeff Tweedy's take on... CONTINUE READING JEFF TWEEDY COVERS RADIOHEAD»
Posted on January 8, 2009 in (17 comments)
Tags: 7 Worlds Collide | Ed O'Brien | Jeff Tweedy | Johnny Marr | Leeds | Liam Finn | Phil Selway | Radiohead | The View | Wilco
And it is pretty impressive! (It's described as "a riveting mix of political insight, social commentary, pre-teen humor, music appreciation, and computer expertise.") Check out the posts about how Spencer spent his 13th birthday playing drums for Wilco at Madison... CONTINUE READING JEFF TWEEDY'S SON SPENCER HAS A BLOG»
Posted on December 19, 2008 (7 comments)
Tags: Jeff Tweedy | Spencer Tweedy | These Are Powers | Wilco
Radioheads Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway are rejoining the ex-Crowded Housed Neil Finn for part two of his 7 Worlds Collide project. The first one, a live album/DVD that came out in 2001, paired Finn with various "friends." The footage... CONTINUE READING RADIOHEAD'S ED O'BRIEN AND PHIL SELWAY REJOINING NEIL FINN FOR 7 WORLDS COLLIDE 2»
Posted on November 17, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: 7 Worlds Collide | Crowded House | Jeff Tweedy | Neil Finn | Radiohead | Stephen Malkmus | The Horrors | Wilco
