Wilco News

Wilco has been named the best album of the year by our rock critic, Andy Gill. Fiona Sturges talks to the band's Jeff Tweedy about longevity against the odds and a dream comeback Wilco is a work that radiates confidence and contentment, recalling the simplicity of the band's early LPs A.M. and Being There.

Almost Killed Me , The Hold Steady 98. Return to Cookie Mountain , TV on the Radio 97.

The Pop Five is a series of reader-created top five lists. Today's contribution comes from Joey L. in Norman, Okla.: 5. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart -- I love docs with a lot of tension, and this one has vomit-inducing tension.

This year's Grammy nominations were announced this week with no surprises. The most musical artists, to put it nicely, have once again been confined to the end-of-the-program categories.

Arcade Fire Funeral Anthemic, cathartic, evocative, brilliant; all these words and so many more could describe Funeral, an album that perfectly captures the mood of its time through its exploration of the world, of life, of humanity and of death.

Ha Ha Tonka guitarist Brian Anderson describes his banda s mix of spirituals and rock as coming from the membersa desire to be a rock band, but coming from the Ozarks.

For this Thanksgiving Day's column, I decided to reflect on the music of the last 10 years.

A US Postal Service revision to its decades-old Letters to Santa program has some charities scurrying to figure out if and how they can continue giving to needy people who write in to ask for help.

Take organizers of a holiday benefit at Chicago's famed Second City theater. For each of the past 10 years, the event has raised more than $1 million for Chicago families living in housing projects or amid desperate circumstances. The recipe was simple and, until this year, always the same: Musicians and actors performed, money got raised, organizers bought goods and delivered a van load each to about a dozen families.

Speaking of Twilight mania, Paramore, the band who gained a lot of momentum by giving a couple of songs to the first film's soundtrack, have announced a gig, or two, Downunder.

Thursday, 26 November 2009, 11:21 am Press Release: The Label     Media Release –EMBARGOED UNTIL 9AM  Thursday 26th November                         Love police present WILCO Tickets on sale Tuesday 1st December ...

On Fillmore: Breezy vacation on tap. "Cinematic" is a descriptor often assigned to instrumental bands, a catchall term that frequently serves as a polite way of saying "background music." Although On Fillmore creates sparse, mysterious sonic landscapes that occasionally function as film scores, the duo of Darin Gray and Glenn Kotche hates ...

Blending baroque instrumentals with modern angst and the devasting croon of Win Butler, Arcade Fire's debut can cater to myriad settings: studying, mourning, running, rebuilding your life.

Record Club is a project more or less headed by Beck that is devoted to the recording - in one day - of an album deemed worthy by RC's rotating members.

Phoenix still can't seem to wrangle a Wilco show but we're getting the next best thing at the end of December as singer Jeff Tweedy plays a solo show at the gorgeous Orpheum Theatre on Sunday, December 27.

The Sun burned out not as a supernova, but with a slow, frustrated fizzle. At least they're ending with an album that's more bang than whimper.

Son Volt served up a handful of early hits, and lots of the new stuff from The Search , Okemah and the Melody of Riot and this summer's release American Central Dust , last night at the Granada Theater.

As part of Beck 's Record Club project, Wilco , Feist and others joined forces to work on Skip Spence 's Oar .

Ita s fitting that on this Friday the 13th that we mourn the loss of 'Ol Dirty Bastard, the Wu Tang member we lost today five years ago.

The author of the best Wilco-inspired haiku wins a Gibson SG, something that Jeff Tweedy himself would cherish.

Son Volt performs Thursday, November 12, at the Granada Theater. When Uncle Tupelo called it quits way back in 1994, few could have predicted the career paths of the band's two major, alt-country gurus, Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy .