This year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival (June 13-16) is within spitting distance and, as expected, riddled with talent. And, more conceivably, there are heart-wrenching set conflicts that we must face on the farm.
If you're a Wilco fan, you know how passionate they are about their music and this festival has certainly been no exception. Held on the beautiful campus of MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, Solid Sound is what every music festival should be.
Ryan Bingham might look, act and talk like a cowboy, and maybe that's where his crazy heart ultimately lies. But there's more to the singer-songwriter...
In a letter published in a downstate Illinois newspaper, popular Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy wrote the "time is now" for marriage equality in the land ...
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy stopped by The Interview Show at The Hideout --Ā and, as you will see, so did the Chicago Fire Department --Ā on Feb. 1, 2013. Tweedy talked with me about music, crime shows and ... fire codes.
The Colorado concert calendar was filled with memorable shows in 2012, though the opportunity to go out of state for the Austin City Limits Music Fest...
If you've been struggling to choose between A.V. Fest/Hideout Block Party and Riot Fest, two big-ticket music events hitting Chicago the weekend of Se...
Ten years ago Monday, Chicago-based rock band Wilco released "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", which would be met with critical acclaim and become the band's be...
British rock stalwart Nick Lowe hadn't made a music video in 18 years, but in producing a video for his new song "Sensitive Man," which premiered toda...
There's something chill-inducing about watching great performers rehearse. One of the best performance videos of last year for our money was Beyonce's...
As 2011 draws to a close, we asked some of Chicago's experts in style, music and art to share their favorite places, people and things of the year. Af...
Republican presidential straw polls are supposed to test the direction of that party's leading windbags. But what to do when there is no direction? A slew of these polls have so far produced results that reflect few votes and no trends.
Released almost exactly 10 years after they were dropped from Reprise, The Whole Love is Wilco's first entirely self-produced LP and the first to be released through their own dBpm label.
We've had great expectations for Wilco's The Whole Love, out today (!), ever since Jeff Tweedy revealed that his writing process for "Born Alone" invo...
On Woody Guthrie: "in a short life he saw so much, but he was really present and there with people. I think he's just really vital, not just in his vision, but as a spokesman for America."