CNN Showbiz — The Chicago rock band Wilco took over the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art from Friday, August 13, through the weekend to throw the first Solid Sound Festival, a celebration of art, music, comedy, film, and community.
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All About Jazz — Featuring Rare Performances by Marc Ribot, Merzbow, Fennesz, Matthew Shipp and ECM Recording Artists Michael Formanek Quartet and Dans Les Arbes
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Brooklyn Vegan — words & photos by Lori Baily The Baseball Proiject headlined a show at Maxwell's on Thursday night. It was before their set over the weekend at Wilco's Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA...Wilco headlined, and Mavis Staples was their... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — words & photos by Lori Baily The Baseball Proiject headlined a show at Maxwell's on Thursday night. It was before their set over the weekend at Wilco's Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA...Wilco headlined, and Mavis Staples was their..... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — The Baseball Project Move over Gary Glitter:The Baseball Project understands that music heard in a sports stadium is not particularly good. And, although that wasn't the sole impetus, the rock quartet conspired to write rock songs that mostly deal wi... more info
The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — I was very excited to hear that there was a practically completed Jay Bennett album left behind by Jay. Not that that's good news when I'd much rather have Jay still around turning out some extremely heartfelt tunes. As much as Jeff Tweedy was th... more info
Pitchfork - Tours — 08-26 Toyko, Japan - Duo Music Exchange 08-27 Osaka, Japan - Club Quattro 09-04 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic 09-11 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival 09-12 Dorset, England - End of the Road Festival 09-13 London, England - Bush Hall 09-14 Lon... more info
Silent Uproar — Jeff Tweedy recently told Billboard that Wilco will begin recording the follow up to 2009's Wilco (The Album) "later this month." As well, the band has officially parted ways with Nonesuch Records. [billboard.com] more info
Stereogum — Last month you heard the title track of Mavis Staples’ forthcoming Tweedy-produced LP. Now, thanks to Wilco Club (via 24BIT), you can hear the Wilco frontman’s original solo acoustic take:
And here again is Mavis’:
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