For any long-running band, particularly one as critically acclaimed and tenured as Wilco, a new album invariably arrives with lower and lower stakes. Somewhere in the late 2000s, you could feel this happening to the group. As the lineup solidified […]
“I love my country stupid and cruel,” Jeff Tweedy sings on “Cruel Country,” the title track to Wilco’s 12th studio album. That line, and the song itself really, serves as a summation of the LP’s sound and purpose as the […]
Just days after the band announced a 20th anniversary reissue of its iconic fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco returns with a brand new song and album announcement: Cruel Country, a double LP, is due out May 27 via the band’s […]
A significant and often overlooked part of surviving the most chaotic and trying times is manifesting joy. Finding ways to remind yourself of the things you’re grateful for and all the ways people can be good to each other is […]
This week’s column features Cheryl Pawelski, owner and cofounder of Omnivore Recordings. Not surprisingly, considering her line of work, she’s a fellow music fan who has a wide range of interests. Bill Frater: What got you started in the music […]
November 15, 2017 The first in a trilogy of shows at the sold out Palace Theater in St. Paul, the band’s performance left this nascent Wilco fan absolutely gobsmacked!
It’s been more than fifteen years since the late Jay Bennett left Wilco but his separation is still being discussed to this day–and some eight years since he died prematurely in his sleep. And now a new documentary Where are […]
Begun in 2009 by Bonnaroo’s Ashley Capps, the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a kind of surrealist anti-festival, a little bit of everything and a whole lot of everything else. It’s the kind of place where you could picture John […]
