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.

A post shared by Dead Oceans (@deadoceans)Born in North London in 1943, Fay went to Wales to study electronics at University. During his time studying, he began writing songs on the piano and harmonium, recording some demos that were noticed by former Van Morrison drummer Terry Noon.

Jack Black and Kyle Gass — has returned from a hiatus after the latter made controversial remarks about the attempted assassination of President Trump last July.And they’re coming back for a good cause: The twosome cover REO Speedwagon’s 1980 classic “Keep on Loving You” as part of “Good Music to Lift Los Angeles,” a compilation album benefiting victims of the LA wildfires, which is exclusively available on Bandcamp for one day only on Friday.With proceeds going to the LA Regional Food Bank and California Foundation’s Wildfire Fund, the 90-track compilation also features covers, remixes, live recordings, demos and other previously unreleased material from R.E.M., TV on the Radio, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Dawes, Interpol, the New Pornographers, Mudhoney, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Animal Collective, Perfume Genius, Manchester Orchestra and more.Tenacious D, who previously covered “Keep on Loving You” live, canceled an Australian tour and announced that they were taking a break last July after Gass’ controversial comments about Trump’s attempted assassination at a show in Sydney. When Black rolled out a birthday cake for Gass to celebrate his 64th and asked him to make a wish, Gass quipped, “Don’t miss Trump next time,” just weeks after a gunman opened fire on Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing Trump’s ear and killing a rally attendee.After the comment, Black posted an apology on Instagram, writing, “I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday.

Sade is releasing her first new music for years as part of a new compilation project.The musician is set to release ‘Young Lion’ as part of the ‘Transa’ benefit album, which will arrive on November 22. It’s the first new music from the musician since a soundtrack offering in 2018.The project has been assembled by non-profit Red Hot, on what aims to support transgender awareness and spotlight both trans and non-binary artists.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer It’s rare these days to get new music from Sade — after all, she hasn’t released an album since 2010’s “Soldier of Love” — but in just a few months, she’s set to put out her first new song in years. The reclusive singer-songwriter will release “Young Lion” as part of the “Transa” benefit album, arriving on Nov.

Jeff Tweedy, we’ll make an exception.The Wilco frontman, fresh off a weekend of headline shows at the band’s very-own Solid Sound Festival last month at North Adams, Massachusetts’ Mass MoCA museum, announced this week that he’s striking out on his own this fall along with special guest Elizabeth Moen. And yes, he’ll be heading out Via Chicago. Or, Evanston to start.

Wilco have announced that they will be selling some of their used gear and instruments on their newly updated Reverb store.The shop will officially open on July 18 and fans of the band will be able to purchase things like a rare Wurlitzer MKS-470 six-keyboard organ, a 1962 Martin F-55 and a Vox Mark IX ’60s which belonged to Jeff Tweedy.Dubbed the “The Official Wilco Loft Reverb Shop,” other notable items within the mix include a Reuben-Cox-modified Merlin Arthur “Boogie Guitar” Smith Country Squire guitar, a 1960s Framus “Big 18” double-neck electric guitar, a Harmony Buck Owens H169 acoustic guitar, a 2011 Breedlove Revival OMR Deluxe acoustic guitar, and a 1962 Martin F-55 electric guitar.A post shared by Reverb.com (@reverb)“It’s a rare bird…you don’t see these in the wild too often,” said Loft studio manager Mark Greenberg said of the latter. “I’ll be honest, I’m surprised Jeff is selling this one.””Speaking about the Reverb sale in a statement (per Consequence Of Sound), Tweedy said: “I love having these Wilco Loft sales on Reverb.

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.

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.