Jeff Tweedy, like many of your favorite writers, is launching a Substack. On Wednesday, the Wilco unveiled Starship Casual, a paid newsletter where he will talk about his favorite music, dole out advice, tell stories from his lengthy career, and share unreleased music. “I always have way more music recorded …
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After three Jeff Tweedy solo records and a memoir, Wilco’s first album since 2016 arrives like a reunion. It sounds like one too: simple, straightforward songs, most with acoustic guitar at the core, other melodic tendrils and rhythms and harmonic drones curling up like ivy, a long-running conversation being picked …
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Wilco has announced a new festival experience, Sky Blue Sky, to take place January 18th through 22nd, 2020 in Puerto Aventuras, Mexico’s Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya. In addition to three full concerts from Wilco and a solo set by frontman Jeff Tweedy, will feature performances by Courtney Barnett, Sharon …
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When Americana pioneers Uncle Tupelo released their major-label debut, Anodyne on October 5th, 1993, it should have been the beginning of something big. In a way, it was. Led by Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy from tiny Belleville, Illinois, the alt-country movement’s promising breakout band was packing clubs in major …
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