The Chicago soul/gospel legend Mavis Staples has now recorded two albums with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy serving as producer, and on the second of those, the forthcoming One True Vine, Tweedy and his…   Read Story »

Three years ago, the great Chicago soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples released You Are Not Alone, the comeback album that Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy produced for her. In a couple of months, she'll…   Read Story »

The big news about The Invisible Way, the new album from Minnesota indie lifers Low, is that Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy produced it. But the thing that strikes me most about the album is that it…   Read Story »

Jeff Tweedy is auctioning off an eight-hour recording session at Wilco's studio, The Loft, as part of a charity auction to benefit Chicago's Northside College Prep, the school where his children are…   Read Story »

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy produced The Invisible Way, the new album from the Minnesota slowcore heroes Low, and we've already posted the early songs "Plastic Cup" and "Just Make It Stop." But "So…   Read Story »

Longtime slowcore warriors Low roped Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy into producing their new album The Invisible Way, which drops in a couple of months. We've already heard one song, "Plastic Cup," but…   Read Story »

Last month we got the scoop that Low had completed work on their 10th album, The Invisible Way, which had been produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy at his Chicago studio. Now, music from that album has…   Read Story »

On Wednesday, Stephen Colbert signed off his show with an old timey Christmas carol, "Good King Wencesles," joined by Michael Stipe and Mandy Patinkin. Last night, he signed off his entire 2012…   Read Story »

Minnesota's Low have produced a pretty indispensable body of work over the past two decades -- they're probably the face of the "slowcore" movement, although their music has grown far beyond the…   Read Story »

Next week, the cult-favorite British singer-songwriter Bill Fay returns with Life Is People, his third album overall but his first in 40 years. On the warm, lonesome chug "This World," Wilco frontman…   Read Story »