Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Richard & Jeff (photo by Zoran Orlick) Folk legend Richard Thompson (of Fairport Convention, Richard & Linda Thompson, and other notable projects) is releasing a new solo album this year, produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy. On getting..... more info

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Brooklyn Vegan — Massachusetts' Wilco-created Solid Sound Festival is back for its fifth year, taking place on June 26-28 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. The festival's creators return for two headlining sets on Friday and Saturday, with frontman Jeff Tweedy's... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Wilco's Jeff Tweedy finds the idea of a tortured artist to be a cliché. more info

Stereogum — Milwaukee power-pop trio the Midwestern Charm will reissue their album Growing Pains next month on Texas Is Funny, the label home of shoegaze greats Glish, hardcore heroes Ex-Breathers and other underground rock ‘n’ rollers of repute. “Can’t ... more info

Stereogum — Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples have developed a fruitful creative partnership in recent years, with Tweedy producing a couple Staples albums and helping her finish one of her father Pops Staples’ unreleased records. (She was also in Tweedy’s aweso... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — In 2014, Mavis Staples tasked Jeff Tweedy with a heavy responsibility. She asked the Wilco songwriter, who’s helmed the production console on her last two solo LPs, to take tracks from an unfinished 16-year-old session recorded by her father, gospe... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Colbert Report aired its final episode last night (12/18) after nine seasons on Comedy Central. At the end, Randy Newman and Jon Stewart came out to help Stephen Colbert sing the 1939 standard "We'll Meet Again" and soon... more info

Stereogum — Last night, Mavis Staples threw a star-studded tribute concert in Chicago for her 75th birthday. Celebrity guests and performers were abundant, including Jeff Tweedy, Gregg Allman, Emmylou Harris, Eric Church, and Bonnie Raitt. Arcade Fire’s Win Bu... more info

Stereogum — On January 8, IFC’s Portlandia will return for a fifth season. The show is no stranger to musical guests — we’ve seen appearances by Jeff Tweedy, Colin Meloy, and St. Vincent, among many others — and this season Paul Simon will be added to th... more info