Stereogum — Wilco’s biennial three-day Solid Sound Festival just kicked off last Friday. Two years ago, they performed a set of fan-requested covers, and this year they performed their first-ever all-acoustic show. Listen to “Hesitating Beauty” below, whic... more info

Stereogum — Jeff Tweedy and Nick Offerman’s relationship has gone public over the past few years — Wilco showed up on Parks And Recreation a few times over the series’ run, and Offerman directed the “Low Key” video from Tweedy’s most recent solo albu... more info

Stereogum — The experimental composer and singer-songwriter Jim O’Rourke is perhaps best known for his stint as a member of Sonic Youth, or for his mixing and production work on Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born, or for his two-album collabora... more info

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