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Wilco Celebrates the Twentieth Anniversary of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
by Dave Kaufman
Wilco has been touring celebrating the 20th anniversary of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (YHF); their fourth album is often heralded as their masterpiece. The album has an interesting backstory recounted in the documentary I am Trying to Break Your Heart named after the opening song on the album. I caught the final performance of a five-night stand (April 20, 2022) at the United Palace theatre in Northern Manhattan. Several personnel changes marked the early years of the band. However, this version ...
read moreWilco: New York, NY, September 22, 2011
by Lawrence Peryer
WilcoRumsey Playground, Central ParkNew York, NYSeptember 22, 2011 Nels Cline can conjure wind. He did so mid-way through the third song of Wilco's performance in New York City on September 22. There were several thousand witnesses. Cline, Wilco's guitarist-cum-audio mad scientist, was at the crest of an intense solo passage in Ashes of American Flags" when a strong, crisp breeze blew in from the East, lifting the blanket of early evening ...
read moreWilco: Sky Blue Sky
by Doug Collette
Wilco's Sky Blue Sky belies the stark black and white of its graphics. It's music of pastels, seemingly designed to lull the listener into a false sense of security.
Consider the fact it was recorded with the lineup of the band including guitarist extraordinaire Nels Cline, who brought so much expansive texture to the sextet's tours since joining in 2004. Shake It Off reminds why he is such an integral member of the group. Yet for the most part he, ...
read moreWilco: Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
by Doug Collette
This ain't your mother's sensitive singer songwriter!.
No, during the entire time he has led Wilco, from the dissolution of Uncle Tupelo through the turbulence of the most recently acclaimed studio work, Jeff Tweedy has redefined what it means to be introspective. This double live CD only reaffirms his vision. More importantly, it documents the work of a versatile band that deserves kudos aplenty for realizing that vision.
The revelation of confessional truths in public can seem transparent ...
read moreWilco at the Memorial Auditorium in Burlington Vermont
by Doug Collette
Burlington's old Memorial Auditorium has rarely, if ever, heard music orchestrated with more ornate detail than that which Wilco played this early autumn night. And Jeff Tweedy, the band's revered leader, couldn't seem to stop, as the dynamic regular set gave way to two encores, the extended length of which reconfirmed what the medium-sized but enthusiastic audience had just heard. That is, Wilco is very well the best rock and roll band in America right now.
It doesn't demean Wilco ...
read moreWilco: a ghost is born
by Doug Collette
It's a bit of a stretch, perhaps, to consider Wilco a jazz band. But if you consider the stylistics leaps Jeff Tweedy & Co. have made since their earliest albums ( Being There , Summerteeth ) and the collective creative process that gave birth to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and now, this new album, perhaps the label fits.
Simpler and more immediate than YHF (contemporary folk songs cloaked in ambient sounds), ghost is the sound of inspiration caught as it happens-ever ...
read moreWilco To Play Friday Evening Concert At Newport Folk Festival, July 27
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
WILCO TO PLAY NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL FRIDAY, JULY 27, at FORT ADAMS STATE PARK NEWPORT, RI: Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. in association with Higher Ground is pleased to present the acclaimed Chicago sextet Wilco in a special headlining concert at the Newport Folk Festival on Friday, July 27, at 5:00 pm. The concert takes place at Fort Adams State Park on the eve of the 2012 Newport Folk Festival and features a headlining Wilco performance plus special guests Blitzen Trapper ...
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Hangout Fest 2012: DMB, Wilco, Jack White, Skrillex, Sci, Lips
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JamBase
TICKETS ON SALE FEBRUARY 10 AT NOON EST Hangout Music Fest is proud to announce its highly anticipated 2012 lineup. Scheduled for May 18-20 on the beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama, the Fest will feature main stage headliners Dave Matthews Band, Jack White, and a soon-to-be-announced third act, along with dance tent headliner Skrillex. Check out the rest of the lineup below. General Admission, VIP, Super VIP and Big Kahuna festival tickets are on sale beginning at 12 noon EST/11 ...
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Wilco | Denver | Review | Photos
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JamBase
By Brad Hodge Wilco :: 01.19.12 :: Fillmore Auditorium :: Denver, CO Underneath the ambient glow of the Fillmore Auditorium's iconic purple chandeliers, a buzz began to grow. As the sold out crowd ushered in early for Wilco's tour opener White Denim began to burrow into the ear holes of those paying attention. What often times is considered to be a rather heartless box of a venue with overpriced cocktails actually had a wonderful mix of sound. Heavy guitar riffs ...
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Wilco: iTunes Session
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JamBase
PRE-ORDER NOW AVAILABLE AT THE ITUNES STORE Recorded at Wilco's famed Chicago loft just a few days before Christmas, and on the eve of the band's sold-out Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago," a new Wilco iTunes session is available for pre-order now, exclusively at itunes.com/wilco. The 8-song album features new versions of Dawned On Me," Born Alone," I Might," Black Moon," and Whole Love" from Wilco's latest, the Grammy-nominated album The Whole Love. The iTunes session also features new recordings ...
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Shows I'll Never Forget: Wilco and Calexico, Nov. 20, 2004
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Something Else!
By Tom Johnson Wilco brought its amazing conglomerate of musicians to Tempe's Marquee Theatre in support of the terrific A ghost is born, with the equally talented, although unfairly publicly ignored opening act Calexico. The 45 minutes allotted to Calexico was far from enough, but the band made the most of it, packing their setlist with a solid, high-energy selection of songs mostly chosen from the most recent album Feast of Wire and their then-current EP Convict Pool. A blend ...
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Wilco: West Coast Tour
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JamBase
WEST COAST FINALLY GETTING THE WHOLE LOVE Alt-country titans Wilco have announced a set of West Coast dates in January and February of 2012. The tour kicks off on January 19 at The Fillmore in Denver and hits San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Spokane, and more. Check out a complete list of tour dates below. Their new album, The Whole Love, is out now. Wilco Tour Dates
01/19/12 Thu The Fillmore Auditorium Denver, CO 01/21/12 Sat Gammage Auditorium ...
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The Friday Morning Listen: Wilco - The Whole Love (2011)
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Something Else!
Salon writer Touré misses monoculture. This isn't the monoculture of a Starbucks every 1 1/2 miles, bookending the Walmart and the Lowes. Obviously, that monoculture hasn't gone anywhere. No, this is what Touré refers to as Massive Music Moments," when a release is so huge that it dominates the culture. The examples givenNevermind, Purple Rain, Thriller, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Backwere popular, or at least well-known, with a large segment of the public. Their popularity ...
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On Second Thought: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2003)
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Something Else!
By Tom Johnson Over time, I have had to face that fact that this album is far better than I'd once thought. When I picked up Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrotthe day it was releasedI really enjoyed it. I didn't think it was anywhere near as groundbreaking or startling as the hype would have had me believe. Soon, I found that I simply could not listen to it anymore: YHF had worn out its welcome by being talked about everywhere as ...
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Wilco Adds Fall Dates
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JamBase
NEW ROUND OF EUROPEAN AND U.S. TOUR DATES Wilco have added a slew of new dates which will see them hit Europe in October and November before returning stateside on November 29 in Dallas, TX for an additional run of U.S. shows. Check out all their tour dates below. Wilco Tour Dates
09-13 Indianapolis, INMurat Theatre @ 09-16-17 Toronto, OntarioMassey Hall @ 09-18 Montreal, QuebecMetropolis @ 09-20 Boston, MAThe Wang Theatre @ 09-22-23 New York, NYRumsey Playfield in Central Park ...
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Wilco - A Ghost is Born (2004)
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Something Else!
By Tom Johnson Where I liken 2002's darkly beautiful, but depressing Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to the sound of a man about to hit bottom, 2004's A ghost is born is the sound of someone at the bottom, looking up: It's hopeful, in other words. This analogy seems fitting, as 2004 was the year when Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy checked himself into rehab to fight off a nagging addiction to painkillers he took to ward off the chronic migraines that can ...
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