This is it—the final entry in our Decade series. Since the beginning of October we’ve been highlighting albums released over the past ten years that made an impression—that made a difference. While we could not possibly feature all of our favorites, we did get through a good amount before the clock ran out and 2009 [...]
(Several months ago Jeff Leven, whose byline you’ll recognize if you’re a Paste reader, and I were discussing music and that of young fandom. Leven told me a great story, from his college days in the ’90s, related to Wilco, the power of an album, meeting your idols…and the days of fax machines. With ‘Wilco [...]
Starting with “Wilco (The Song),” which sounds like an upbeat inverse of the Velvet Underground’s “I’m Waiting for the Man,” Wilco announce their intentions quickly on Wilco (The Album). “Do you dabble in depression?” Jeff Tweedy asks, and it’s not the question itself that’s new for Wilco—far from it—but the fact that there’s an answer [...]
Was upping Wilco’s “Engineer Demos” for a friend yesterday and thought I would post here for a limited time. Like the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot demos, the following are both outtakes and alternate versions of tracks that would make the final cut. “Cars Can’t Escape” remains a favorite, and I’ve always been curious why it did [...]
At the time of this writing the immediate cause of Jay Bennett’s death is yet unknown. Yesterday, mid-afternoon, rumors of the artist’s passing began flying via email, text messages, Twitter, and message boards. Some speculated that the Bennett in question was in fact a case of mistaken identity — that of the death of another [...]
Since 2002 multi-instrumentalist Mikael Jorgensen is best known for his involvement as a collaborator and member of Wilco, but the New Jersey raised and now Brooklyn based artist has done much much more. AD sat down with Jorgensen near his Brooklyn home and discussed his new/old band Pronto, a day before the release of their [...]
I was at this taping, 3rd row, the summer of 2007 while in Austin for ACL. Hearing this material, live, in this context, ultimately contributed to my naming Sky Blue Sky as my favorite LP of 2007. A call I very much stand by two years later. If you are only going to listen to [...]
I’ve witnessed many a Wilco show over the years, but spare for a few moments, was not particularly impressed by the two-disc, 2005 live document, Kicking Television. I felt that it found the band in the midst of performance growing pains just prior to finding their footing again.
Ashes of American Flags, on the other hand, [...]
Tweedy covers Neil Young’s lovelorn “The Losing End” at the Rocky Mountain Folk Festival, 2006. The original appears on Young’s second LP, from 1969, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
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MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: The Losing End (When You’re On)
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Wilco :: Ashes Of American Flags, Austin TX, January 8, 2005
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Letters To Santa Living Room Show, Chicago, Jan 14, 2006: One of three shows Tweedy played that year as part of the auction for the annual Letters to Santa Charity event. The second year the event had occurred, each show had only Tweedy and about 30 guests. The combined three shows brought in $36,000 for [...]
