Stereogum — Spencer Tweedy is the son and frequent collaborator of Wilco leader Jeff, and he’s currently playing drums in Waxahatchee’s touring band. Last year, Spencer Tweedy put out drumprints vol. 1: 2301 , a collection of drum tracks made with the ex... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Ken Coomer (Wilco). We fell in love with the drummer. Read our classic Wilco cover story detailing Coomer’s departure from the band: The post Happy Birthday Ken Coomer (Wilco) appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday John and Sean Ono Lennon. Beautiful boys. (Sean photo for MAGNET by Gene Smirnov.) Read the Primitives on the John/Beatles song that invented punk (“Birthday”) and our Claypool Lennon Delirium cover story with Sean and Les Claypool... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Les Claypool (Primus, Claypool Lennon Delirium). Pudding time! Read our Claypool Lennon Delirium cover story with Les and Sean Lennon (cover photo for MAGNET by Gene Smirnov) by Wilco’s Nels Cline: The post Happy Birthday Les Claypoo... more info

Stereogum — When I showed up at Ohio University in rural southeast Ohio back in 2002, I was obsessed with Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot . So of course the first band I fell in love with on campus was Southeast Engine, an indie roots rock band who counted Wi... more info

Magnet Magazine — Wayne Graham’s quirky Southern boogie has more in common with late-period Wilco than LCD Soundsystem’s post-punk dancefloor antics. But the Kentucky-bred quartet was striving to find some common ground with the latter on “We Could Have Been Fri... more info

Magnet Magazine — “I Guess I Planted”I guess I planted some long lonesome seed of a songWay down inside me long agoAnd now I can’t remember when it wasBut it joined up with the rest of them and growsIt’s such a little song it don’t compareWith all your big o... more info

Stereogum — My Wonderful Boyfriend are a new-ish NYC indie rock band informed by the classics. In promo materials, the band claims influences such as “Pavement, Big Star, Blur, Wilco, and Vampire Weekend,” and I hear a lot of that in “My New Shirt,” t... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Jeff Tweedy (Wilco, Uncle Tupelo). You’re the boy with the poetry power. Cover photo for MAGNET of Jeff and son Spencer by Christian Lantry. Read our classic Wilco cover story from 2002: The post Happy Birthday Jeff Tweedy (Wilco, Un... more info

Stereogum — Athens, GA roots rockers Futurebirds have a new album called Easy Company out today. It does not appear to have anything to do with Band Of Brothers. Instead, the title track, which features Waxahatchee’s own Katie Crutchfield, revolves around t... more info