Last night Stephen Colbert welcomed Jeff Tweedy to his guest stool for a hard hitting interview in which he proposed new and more rocking names for the Wilco frontman (Jeff Silky or even better, Joffrey Velvet) and also questioned the... CONTINUE READING JEFF TWEEDY TALKS WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, PREMIERES "WILCO THE SONG"»
Posted on October 31, 2008 in (10 comments)
Tags: Jeff Tweedy | Joe The Plumber | Stephen Colbert | Wilco
Last weekend at the Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, CA, Wilco played a couple new songs (one Saturday set, one Sunday) that may or may not show up on their forthcoming seventh album, which is due sometime in the... CONTINUE READING WILCO DEBUT NEW TUNES, GET COVERED BY NORAH JONES»
Posted on October 30, 2008 in , (6 comments)
Tags: Norah Jones | Ponytail | Wilco
As mentioned way back when Wilco and Fleet Foxes covered "I Shall Be Released," Jeff's on a working vacation to Spain this week, where he is testing out some new stuff. Have a listen to a pretty half-tune at YouTube.... CONTINUE READING JEFF TWEEDY'S TREATING SPAIN TO SOME NEW STUFF»
Posted on September 4, 2008 (4 comments)
Tags: Jeff Tweedy | Vampire Weekend | Wilco
The division of labor on this one -- a cover of Dylan's American Songbook staple "I Shall Be Released -- is precisely how you'd want it: Tweedy on lead, the hirsute harmony makers of Fleet Foxes filling out the backdrop.... CONTINUE READING WILCO & FLEET FOXES COVER BOB DYLAN»
Posted on September 2, 2008 in , (7 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | David Byrne | Dirty Projectors | Fleet Foxes | Pete And The Pirates | SXSW | Wilco
This weekend San Francisco hosted the first-ever Outside Lands Festival. We're still nursing hangovers from a long summer of fests, so in our stead we sent Heather of I Am Fuel You Are Friends to take it in, and take... CONTINUE READING OUTSIDE LANDS 2008 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on August 25, 2008 in (23 comments)
Tags: Beck | Bon Iver | CAKE | Coachella | Coup | Drive-By Truckers | Everest | Fucked Up | Liars | Matt Nathanson | Outside Lands | Primal Scream | Radiohead | Regina Spektor | Stars | The Felice Brothers | Wilco
At their triumphant Lollapalooza headlining set, Wilco debuted new suits and a new tune, "One Wing." Now comes word that a follow-up to the wonderful Sky Blue Sky should be out by spring. Jeff Tweedy offered this progress report to... CONTINUE READING WILCO LP7 ON THE WAY»
Posted on August 18, 2008 in , (13 comments)
Tags: Coachella | Jeff Tweedy | M.I.A. | Wilco
Lots of costume changes for Wilco this weekend. Last spotted sporting nifty suits and debuting works in progress at Lollapalooza, the band swapped 'em for Cubs uniforms the next day and treated the fans at Wrigley to a 7th inning... CONTINUE READING WILCO TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME»
Posted on August 5, 2008 in (18 comments)
Tags: Solange | SXSW | Wilco
By Scott Lapatine & Amrit Singh Wilco and Rage Against The Machine went head to head on last night's schedule, and fans of both bands began the trek to opposite sides of Grant Park well before the 8:30 kickoff. We... CONTINUE READING LOLLAPALOOZA 2008: WILCO BRING NEW TUNE, NOT OBAMA»
Posted on August 3, 2008 in , , (19 comments)
Tags: Andrew Bird | Ida Maria | Lollapalooza | SXSW | Wilco
Some details leaked a few weeks back, but now you can peruse the full line-up for Virgin's Baltimore stop and decide whether to shell out the $175 (plus $175 for gas). The third annual Virgin East Coast delivers some familiar... CONTINUE READING BOB DYLAN, CHUCK BERRY JOIN USUAL SUSPECTS FOR VIRGIN FEST 2008»
Posted on April 28, 2008 (5 comments)
Tags: Foo Fighters | Jack Johnson | Kanye West | Lil Wayne | Moby | Nine Inch Nails | Stone Temple Pilots | Underworld | Virgin Mobile Festival | Wilco
Last week, Chicago Sun-Times's Jim DeRogatis leaked over a dozen names performing at this summer's 45th annual Lollapalooza festival, including the Alternative Nation power troika of Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, and Nine Inch Nails. Lollafounder Perry Farrell responded in... CONTINUE READING LOLLAPALOOZA 2008 FULL LINE-UP REVEALED»
Posted on April 6, 2008 (68 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Gnarls Barkley | Grizzly Bear | Jim DeRogatis | Kanye West | Lollapalooza | Nine Inch Nails | Radiohead | Rage Against The Machine | The Raconteurs | Wilco
Just when we were thinking we could get away with just one trip to Chicago this summer, Lolla drops details on the sort of lineup we were expecting to see from the Coachella folks a few months ago. Jim DeRo... CONTINUE READING LOLLAPALOOZA 2008 HEADLINERS, PARTIAL LINEUP LEAKED»
Posted on April 4, 2008 (20 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Gnarls Barkley | Grizzly Bear | Kanye West | Lollapalooza | Nine Inch Nails | Radiohead | Rage Against The Machine | The Raconteurs | Wilco
It's a tad strange listening to a Wilco song without a Volkswagen commercial attached to it, but we'll deal. The previously unreleased "Glad It's Over"'s a slippery toe-tapping Sky Blue Sky outtake that appears on the previously mentioned, Death Cab... CONTINUE READING NEW WILCO - "GLAD IT'S OVER"»
Posted on April 3, 2008 in (13 comments)
Tags: Heroes | Wilco
Esquire has compiled a list of this last year's 10 best car commercial as part of their annual music awards, The Eskys. Right off the bat, you should notice the importance of Jeff Tweedy to the car industry ... and... CONTINUE READING ESQUIRE'S TOP TEN CAR COMMERCIAL SONGS OF THE YEAR, OR, WILCO MAKE GOOD CAR-SELLING MUSIC»
Posted on March 24, 2008 in , (37 comments)
Tags: Wilco
Ever go to a Wilco show and watch Jeff Tweedy puke sidestage, and just assume it was the drugs? OK you may have been right about that. But also there's a chance you were making an ass out of u... CONTINUE READING JEFF TWEEDY HAS MIGRAINES»
Posted on March 6, 2008 (28 comments)
Tags: Bruce Springsteen | Peter Bjorn And John | Super Bowl | Wilco
The revolving doors at 30 Rock gave passage this weekend to a varied set of Saturday Night Live guests: pro-Obama rockers Wilco, pro-Clinton politician Hillary Clinton, and pro-lesbian thespian Ellen Page. And after all that, it was a pretty weak... CONTINUE READING WILCO, JUNO, HILLARY VISIT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE»
Posted on March 3, 2008 in (13 comments)
Tags: Diablo Cody | Ellen Page | Hillary Clinton | Saturday Night Live | Wilco
Heroes doesn't normally give us a lot of reasons to mention it, as pop music is rarely incorporated into their scenes about staving off the apocalypse. There was that one time where some girls were double-dutching to M.I.A.'s "Boyz" (before... CONTINUE READING HEROES TAPS WILCO, DEATH CAB, MY MORNING JACKET, THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN FOR SOUNDTRACK»
Posted on February 28, 2008 (12 comments)
Tags: David Bowie | Death Cab For Cutie | Heroes | My Morning Jacket | Spank Rock | The Chemical Brothers | The Jesus And Mary Chain | The New Pornographers | Wilco
The fifth and final show of Wilco's Winter Residency at Chicago's Riviera Theatre is streaming online (last night's was too, but no one told us). The set will span their entire career (here's last night's setlist), so you'll get a lot of oldies. But also hopefully "Impossible Germany" for the fifth night in a row, 'cause that's the best song Tweedy ever wrote. Log on ... now.
Posted on February 20, 2008 (6 comments)
The soothed sounds of Wilco's Sky Blue Sky constituted the better part of their session at venerable public broadcast music program Austin City Limits, premiering this past weekend. The Tweedy troupe's celebrating the performance with a web-ready clip from the... Austin City Limits)'">CONTINUE READING NEW LIVE WILCO VIDEO - "IMPOSSIBLE GERMANY" (AT AUSTIN CITY LIMITS)»
Posted on November 5, 2007 in (7 comments)
Tags: Wilco
Our friend Lindsay was first to tip us off to this bit of Via Chicago-meets-Colbert Nation news, but it wasn't 'til reader Andrew T. sent us the full info -- along with the intro "My Sister-in-law Anne sent this to... CONTINUE READING A SHOT OF THE ARM»
Posted on September 25, 2007 (9 comments)
Tags: Stephen Colbert | Wilco
Hopefully this week's 'Gum Drop made it safely to your inbox (we made sure to pack it extra carefully). In case you haven't unwrapped it, snoop around a bit and grab Nellie McKay's venture into Spanish language sing-a-longing (could a... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP GIVEAWAY #4»
Posted on September 19, 2007 in (0 comments)
Tags: Entourage | Jeremy Piven | Laurie Anderson | Nellie McKay | Telekinesis | Wilco
Forever suckers for covers, we got wind of Donavon Frankenreiter's take on Wilco for his Recycled Recipes EP, and despite his bro-ship with Jack Johnson, we gave it a listen. Frankenreiter attempts a Lamontagne-y version of A Ghost Is Born's... CONTINUE READING DONAVON FRANKENREITER COVERS WILCO, NELS CLINE HAS CHICKEN POX»
Posted on August 14, 2007 (2 comments)
Tags: Donavon Frankenreiter | Wilco
“I’m probably the only person that wanted to be a rock critic and failed at it and started a band" is the crux of Jeff Tweedy's shot at a music crit column in yesterday's New York Times. Pretty sure Jeff's... CONTINUE READING JEFF TWEEDY LIKES ANIMAL BANDS (AND BATTLES)»
Posted on July 23, 2007 (7 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Battles | Dr. Dog | Grizzly Bear | Jon Pareles | Panda Bear | Wilco
While Saturday's lineup was the most set-hopper friendly, Sunday's spread offered two trump cards with eagerly anticipated sets from Wilco and the first post-Icky US show from the White Stripes. Before we got there, though, there were a few... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: SUNDAY 6/17/07: WILCO & THE WHITE STRIPES RAZE THE STAGES»
Posted on June 18, 2007 in (28 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Feist | Jack White | The Decemberists | The White Stripes | Wilco | Wolfmother
For the record, we take no issue with Wilco lending their tunes to VolksWagon's "it gets inside you" ad campaign (except that they're sorta silly, the "You Are My Face" one, anyway). As mentioned last time, though, there's hundreds of... CONTINUE READING WILCO WEIGHS IN ON THE VOLKSWAGON VITRIOL»
Posted on June 5, 2007 (39 comments)
Tags: Wilco
"When you get into a Volkswagen, it gets into you." Welcome to Wilco's first commercial licensing deal, in which nearly half of Sky Blue Sky's tracklist will soundtrack a series of commercials aimed to convince you that driving a VW... CONTINUE READING VOLKSWILCO»
Posted on June 4, 2007 in , (22 comments)
Tags: Wilco
