Jeff Tweedy: Last News

Blondshell has revealed that she has already written her second album.The singer-songwriter released her self-titled debut earlier this year and has now said in a new interview she is set to demo her next record.She told The Forty-Five: “I’m going to demo [the second album] this week. It took a while between making and releasing the first album because I wanted to get all that stuff right.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic If we had the ability to assess who is the most beloved figure in music — not in overall numbers, but sheer adoration, per capita and per peer — it likely wouldn’t be Taylor or Beyoncé but Mavis Staples, who has been taking us there since the late ’60s. There being the smile that crosses anyone’s face when fortunate enough to be in the same room, or even in just giving a passing thought to that voice, that presence, and all the different ways in which Staples embodies righteousness.

Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy has opened up about his relationship with music criticism and revealed “I tried to be a rock critic but I couldn’t do it”.The frontman and songwriter recently released his third book World Within A Song: Music That Changed My Life And Life That Changed My Music, which was described as “an exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration.”Appearing on the latest episode of Pitchfork‘s weekly podcast, The Pitchfork Review, Tweedy discussed his book, especially his complex relationship with music criticism.“I take that aphorism about how music critics are frustrated musicians and turn it on its head when I think about my life, because early on I thought that writing about music would be more attainable to me,” he told host, and Pitchfork Associate Editor, Sam Sodomsky.He continued: “So I tried my hand at writing for fanzines in St. Louis but was too lazy to do it correctly or with any success.

Grammys are set to arrive today, Friday, November 10 at 4pm GMT via an official livestream.Nominees will be announced during a video stream live on the Grammy website and the Recording Academy’s official YouTube channel. St.

Wilco have this week unveiled details of their own new font – check it out below.Jeff Tweedy and co revealed that the new font, ‘Wilco Loft Sans’ is available now. Created by SimpleBits, the band describe Wilco Loft Sans as an “all-caps, high contrast sans serif” on their store.They also shared a custom icon for each band member, based on an instrument they play.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Rockism, in case you don’t know the term, is the school of thought that holds the noisy “purity” of rock ‘n’ roll to be morally and aesthetically superior to the “corruption” of pop. There are numerous iconic examples of rockism.

The nominations for the 2024 Grammys are set to be announced Friday, November 9 at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET. The event will be available via livestream. You can watch the nominations on the embedded player below, on live.grammy.com or on the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel.

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Wilco have announced plans to release their 13th studio album ‘Cousin’ and shared new single ‘Evicted’ – which you can listen to below.The record, which has been produced by Cate Le Bon, will be released on September 29 on dBpm Records.“It’s this feeling of being in it and out of it at the same time,” said frontman Jeff Tweedy of the new album.He added of the new single, which you can listen to below: “I guess I was trying to write from the point of view of someone struggling to make an argument for themself in the face of overwhelming evidence that they deserve to be locked out of someone’s heart. Self-inflicted wounds still hurt and in my experience they’re almost impossible to fully recover from.”‘Cousin’ marks the first time Wilco have handed the reins over to a producer outside their immediate circle of collaborators since 2007’s ‘Sky Blue Sky’.“The amazing thing about Wilco is they can be anything,” Le Bon added.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor On May 30, Foo Fighters will headline the opening night of a new Washington D.C. venue called the Atlantis, an intimate 450-capacity room opened by independent promoter I.M.P., which also owns and operates area venues the 9:30 Club and the Anthem and operates the Lincoln Theatre and Merriweather Post Pavilion. The venue kicks off the season with a robust opening lineup that includes Maggie Rogers, Parliament Funkadelic, Yo La Tengo, Darius Rucker, Joan Jett, Tove Lo, Jeff Tweedy, Tank and the Bangas, Portugal. The Man, and Billy Idol, among others (full lineup below). The new club was accidentally announced by D.C.-area native Dave Grohl in September of 2021, when Foo Fighters played the re-opening night of the long-running 9:30 Club after months of pandemic shutdown. He said I.M.P. was going to open a new, smaller venue fashioned as a near replica of the original 9:30 Club, where he got his start. He gave no additional details but added, “We’ll probably be the band that opens that place, too, right?”

Wilco are set to release an alternate version of their seminal album ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ for this year’s Record Store Day.Taking place on Saturday April 22, Record Store Day celebrates independent record stores around the world, giving fans the chance to buy special one-off collectable releases on vinyl, cassette and more.Wilco will release the new version of their 2002 record on vinyl for the annual event, dubbing it ‘Crosseyed Strangers: An Alternate Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’. It will comprise live recordings of ‘Radio Cure’, ‘Jesus, Etc.’, ‘Heavy Metal Drummer’, ‘Pot Kettle Black’, ‘Poor Places’ and ‘Reservations’, as well as different versions of ‘War On War’ and ‘I’m The Man Who Loves You’.Only 4,500 copies of the vinyl will be available for purchase through participating stores – search the directory here.‘Crosseyed Strangers’ was originally compiled by the band last year for Uncut magazine, to coincide with the record’s 20th anniversary.

Jeff Tweedy has announced a new book, World Within A Song: Music That Changed My Life And Life That Changed My Music.Described as “an exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration”, the memoir is due to arrive on November 7 via Dutton. You can pre-order it here.World Within A Song… serves as the Wilco frontman’s third book following on from 2018’s Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) and 2020’s How To Write One Song.The forthcoming title sees Tweedy explore “50-plus songs that changed his life, the real-life experiences behind each one, as well as what he’s learned about how music and life intertwine and enhance each other”, per an official listing.Included are tracks by the likes of Billie Eilish, The Velvet Underground, The Replacements, Mavis Staples, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding and Dolly Parton, with Tweedy also opening up about his own material.Jeff's third book WORLD WITHIN A SONG: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music will be available Nov.

Wilco have shared a fourth preview for the forthcoming reissue of their seminal 2001 album ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ – a “live in the studio” take of the song ‘Ashes Of American Flags’ – alongside the news of their first-ever shows in Iceland.The newly unearthed recording was tracked for WXRT’s Sound Opinions series, which saw Wilco perform a series of five ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ cuts on September 18, 2001. The full session – which also includes six interview tracks – will be presented as one of eight CDs (or 11 vinyl records) in the “super deluxe” reissue of ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’, which is due out on September 16 via Nonesuch.Have a listen to ‘Ashes Of American Flags (Live In The Studio)’ below:‘Ashes Of American Flags (Live In The Studio)’ is the fourth song to be shared from the “super deluxe” reissue of ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’, following live recordings of ‘Reservations’ and ‘Pot Kettle Black’, and a demo of ‘Kamera’ dubbed the ‘Unified Theory Of Everything’ version.The full release will sport a total of 102 tracks, including a newly remastered version of the original 11-song effort.

Wilco have a compiled a new, alternate version of their classic album ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ for Uncut magazine.With a 20th anniversary edition of the seminal album due for release in September, the new companion record ‘Cross-Eyed Strangers’ features alternate studio takes, live tracks and Jeff Tweedy solo cuts – as well as the epic finale to their recent New York performance of the album.“Revisiting ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ has been a collaboration with our audience,” frontman Tweedy told Uncut. “We are a band that likes to make people happy.

Japanese Breakfast was joined by Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy at a gig yesterday (July 16) to perform his band’s 2001 hit ‘Jesus Etc.’ – see footage below.Michelle Zauner was playing a slot at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Tweedy’s hometown of Chicago as part of her tour for 2021 album ‘Jubilee’.Half way through the set, Tweedy joined her on stage to perform ‘Jubilee’ track ‘Kokomo, IN’, with the pair then going on to share a rendition of ‘Jesus Etc.’. She has covered the song in the past and joined the whole of Wilco to play the song at a recent festival.It comes after Zauner welcomed Tweedy’s Wilco bandmate Nels Cline to the stage during her set at Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts, with Cline performing a guitar solo on Japanese Breakfast track ‘Posing For Cars’.See footage of the performances with Tweedy below.At Pitchfork Fest, I straight up cried when Jeff Tweedy came out on stage during Japanese Breakfast and finished his two song stint with “Jesus Etc”.

Wilco have shared a previously unreleased, alternate version of their 2002 ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ cut ‘Kamera’, lifted from forthcoming deluxe editions of the album that are set to arrive in September.‘Kamera (The Unified Theory of Everything Version)’ is a significantly heavier take on the track, swapping out the primarily acoustic version that ended up on the album for electric guitars and propulsive drums.The new version will feature on both the super deluxe LP and CD reissues, as well as the deluxe LP and digital sets. All will be available September 16 via Nonesuch Records.

Angel Olsen’s sixth studio album, ‘Big Time’, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has shared a lo-fi acoustic cover of its title track.Tweedy’s raw, weathered vocals fit the song affably, retaining the original version’s smoky and melancholic spirit. He shared the cover on his Substack blog, Starship Casual, where he wrote: “Normally I put songs behind the paywall, but this album is brand-new and lovely, and I want everyone with ears to hear it.”Have a listen to the cover here, and see Olsen’s response to it below:Jeff!!! Covering “Big Time”! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I owe you one @JeffTweedy https://t.co/5t9yG0QI5j— Angel Olsen (@AngelOlsen) June 4, 2022This isn’t the first time Tweedy’s put his own spin on one of Olsen’s tunes – almost exactly a year ago, he and his son Spencer covered her joint single with Sharon Van Etten, ‘Like I Used To’.

Alex Swhear “I love my country like a little boy,” Jeff Tweedy sings on “Cruel Country,” the title track of Wilco’s twelfth studio album. “I love my country, stupid and cruel.” That sentiment rears its head throughout “Cruel Country,” a sprawling, cozy double-LP.

Wilco have today (May 10) shared a new song – listen to ‘Tired Of Taking It Out On You’ below.It’s taken from the band’s upcoming new double-disc album, ‘Cruel Country’, which is released next month.The band’s 12th studio album is set to arrive on May 27 via dBpm Records. This is the same weekend as their Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA, where the band will perform the new record for the first time.Speaking about the latest single release, Jeff Tweedy said: “I’ve realised over the years that a lot of the songs I’ve written have worked as reminders to myself to pay attention to various things.“Sometimes I think I’ve figured out how the world works in some small way, and I worry I’ll forget it if I don’t sing it back to myself occasionally.

Wilco have announced that they’ll be releasing a new double-disc album next month called ‘Cruel Country’.The band’s 12th studio album is set to arrive on May 27 via dBpm Records. This is the same weekend as their Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA, where the band will perform the new record for the first time.The title was inspired by the idea that Wilco were a country band when they first started out. “There have been elements of country music in everything we’ve ever done,” frontman Jeff Tweedy said in a press release.

Wilco have announced a series of 20th anniversary reissues for their fourth album, ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ – pre-order them here.Seven special editions of the landmark album will be released via Nonesuch on September 16, including a Super Deluxe version made up of eleven vinyls and a CD.The aforementioned version includes demos, drafts, and instrumentals, charting the making of ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’, plus a live 2002 concert recording and a September 2001 radio performance and interview.The set also includes 82 previously unreleased music tracks as well as a new book featuring an interview with frontman Jeff Tweedy, drummer Glenn Kotche, and Jim O’Rourke, who mixed the acclaimed 2002 album; an in-depth essay by author Bob Mehr; and previously unseen photos of the band making the album in their Chicago studio, The Loft.For the Yankee Hotel Foxtrotrecording, Wilco was Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Leroy Bach, Glenn Kotche, and Jay Bennett with Craig Christiansen, Ken Coomer, Jessy Greene, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Jim O’Rourke.A live rendition of ‘Reservations’ taken from ‘Snoozin’ At The Pageant – Live 7/23/02 At The Pageant, St. Louis, MO’ – a recording that is part of the Super Deluxe LP and CD sets as well as the Deluxe LP and digital sets – has been shared as a preview of the 20th anniversary reissue.