Archive for the 'Wilco' Category

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Be sure to catch Wilco’s 2007 Austin City Limits performance tomorrow on PBS. We were there, and it was full on, as was their gig at Voodoo Festival last weekend in New Orleans. Here is a sample clip of the band performing “Impossible Germany” from the September taping.
www.wilcoworld.net ++ www.myspace.com/wilco ++ www.wilcobase.com
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

One more Wilco related post this week. The below track is an MP3 dvd rip of Jeff Tweedy’s cover of Bill Fay’s “Be Not So Fearful” — cribbed straight from the 2004 documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart. Fay’s lyrics, paired with the point in the documentary’s narrative, could not have been […]

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Austin, Texas: Last Saturday afternoon A.D. and co. made our way over to the KLRU Austin City Limits television studios, located on the campus of the University of Texas, for day II of consecutive ACL tapings (Friday we caught the Arcade Fire taping, see reviews here, here, and here). But Saturday was the main […]

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Having successfully pushed the boundaries of what defines the Wilco sound on their last two LPs, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born, respectively, Jeff Tweedy and company return with Sky Blue Sky, a mature album that returns to the more traditional song structures found on the outfits earlier material.
The past six years have […]

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Download:
MP3: Wilco :: What Light
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www.wilcoworld.net ++ www.myspace.com/wilco ++ via chicago board

Friday, October 27th, 2006

It’s been quite some time since An Aquarium Drunkard has had the opportunity to feature anything Wilco related, which in a way is a shame given the blog’s namesake.

Directed by the Burn To Shine ducu-series creators, Brendan Canty and Christoph Green, Sunken Treasure does an impressive job establishing the live experience for the viewer, especially […]

Monday, March 27th, 2006

The new Loose Fur joint is good. It came out last week. On the Drag City label. It makes me want to: whistle, stomp feet, clap hands, drink beer, do my signature dance, turn it up, as well as other unmentionables. Get on it. Here is the first track entitled, ahem, “Hey Chicken.” Tweedy on […]

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

Wilco. I really like Wilco, they are the namesake of this here blog. But until last night had never committed to seeing them. I somehow got it into my head that they wouldn’t be very good live. I was wrong, they were good, great even. Tweedy’s voice in a live setting may be even more […]