Wilco
photo: Marina Chavez
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Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1999
The Chicago boys talk about the making of Summerteeth, and life on the road.
File format: mp3; file size: 32.8mb, interview length: 35' 47" sound quality: ****
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Wilco: A.M. (Reprise/Sire) ***½
Review by Holly George-Warren, Rolling Stone, 6 April 1995
GRAM PARSONS had a vision back in the '60s. With his International Submarine Band, Flying Burrito Brothers and later as a solo artist, he blazed ...
Wilco: Being There (WEA/All formats)
Review by Stuart Bailie, New Musical Express, 1 February 1997
THE UNBELIEVABLE MIGHTINESS OF BEING... ...
Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, April 1997
WITH THEIR SECOND album, Being There, already being hailed as the record of the year, and flattering, if fanciful, comparisons to such as Exile On ...
Wilco: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, April 1997
WILCO'S SINGER-SONGWRITER Jeff Tweedy was maimed by rock 'n' roll, tamed by rock 'n' roll, named by rock 'n' roll, according to the most wistful ...
Interview by Keith Cameron, Vox, May 1997
THE WAITRESS next door to the Blue Note desperately wants to come, but she couldn't get the night off work. "Oh, it'll be fantastic!" she ...
Wilco: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, June 1997
"WE SAW all those teenage girls outside and we assumed they were here for us. Hey, man, what gives?" ...
Songs For Woody: Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue
Review by RJ Smith, The Village Voice, 7 July 1998
WOODY GUTHRIE bequeathed us his jumble. Willing in life to play straight man for many right causes, in death he left a tangle of words ...
Wilco: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 1 April 1999
SUMMERTEETH, THE THIRD instalment in Wilco's quest to distil the early 1970s moment when American rock's explosive prime was replaced by pretty pop melodies is ...
Interview by Ben Thompson, The Independent, May 1999
WILCO MAINSTAYS Jeff Tweedy (twinkly, weatherbeaten) and Jay Bennett (burly, dreadlocked) are savouring a momentary pause between engagements. A beleagured two-man colony of battered denim ...
Wilco: 4.00 - 5.00pm: soundcheck/5.00 - 6.00pm: local press/6.00 - 6.05pm: cigarette break
Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, July 1999
IT'S DARK IN an alley just off Hamburg's notorious Reeperbahn, a faint neon glow filters in from the street to reveal a gaggle of noisy ...
Report and Interview by Eric Weisbard, Spin, September 2000
Sick of a world ruled by Britney and Backstreet? Visit Chicago: a salt-of-the-earth midwestern town where old-world pleasures like community, cheap rent, cheap beer, gritty ...
Report by Jason Cohen, Slate, 14 August 2001
The dirty little secret about Ryan Adams and his record label. ...
Wilco: Taking Control in a Crisis
Report and Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, 28 March 2002
ROCK AND ROLL is not the first place you would look for a new form of patriotism. Yet Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the latest album by ...
Hi, My Name's Jeff, and I'm a Wilcoholic
Interview by Toby Manning, Q, May 2002
LIKE ALL LAS VEGAS hotels, the Mandalay Bay is a self-contained city, comprising restaurants, bars, even a "beach," complete with electric waves: anything and everything ...
Review by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, October 2002
THE INK THAT says Wilco YHF Demos is slightly smeared on the home-printed white cover of the CD that arrived the other day. The 21 ...
Yancey Strickler's Favorite Recordings Of 2002
Retrospective by Yancey Strickler, Neumu, 31 December 2002
In terms of great music, 2002 is as good a year as I can remember. It says a lot that when making this list, and ...
Review by Steve LaBate, Paste, 1 June 2004
SO HOW DO YOU follow the dense, experimental, critically worshipped Yankee Hotel Foxtrot? The latest version of Wilco answers with an overwhelming, at times postmodern ...
Wilco: A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, July 2004
Album five from Chicago-based soul-seekers. Release delayed following Jeff Tweedy's spell in rehab. ...
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 9 July 2004
After a decade of crises that would have finished off most bands, Wilco are back ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, August 2004
"IF I PLAYED you all the Wilco songs in chronological order on an acoustic guitar, they probably wouldn't sound that different," declares Wilco leader Jeff ...
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 15 May 2007
JEFF TWEEDY has never been much of a lyricist, but his cryptic words do provide occasional clues to his rich, puzzling music. On Sky Blue ...
Review by Andy Gill, Uncut, June 2007
Tweedy and Co.'s Surprising Soft-Rock Therapy. ...
Ahead of the Curve: Jeff Tweedy on Barack Obama, 9 May 2005
Interview by Bud Scoppa, Rock's Backpages, 5 November 2008
I FIRST POSTED the following in February, but the occasion demands that I pull it out of the archives and put it up again. What ...
Live Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 10 November 2009
"WHERE YOU BEEN?" responds an amused Jeff Tweedy to a punter's call to "play the hits", midway through Wednesday's show at the Forum. "These are ...
Review by John Robb, Louder Than War, September 2011
THE LAST TIME I wrote a review cautiously praising a band for a slow return to form, that band was R.E.M., who shocked the music ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, October 2011
Self-released, and self-assured. Tweedy and co's redemptive return. ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rock's Backpages, December 2011
WILCO FANS ARE AS polarized as the US congress. Some revel in the band's eardrum-pulverizing forays into the sonic unknown, introduced on 2000's art-damaged Yankee ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, The Word, March 2012
MUSIC, POP-UP STORES, all-ages art, cabaret: Wilco's Solid Sound Festival is "what we can't get across in a live two-hour show" ...
Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 17 July 2015
The Chicago band's ninth album successfully blends Bowie space-glam, Beatles psychedelic singsong and Captain Beefheart weirdness ...
Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, October 2016
IF MOST BANDS were to announce that their 10th album, 21 years into their career, will be a largely acoustic affair, it would cause all ...
Wilco: O2 Academy Brixton, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 21 November 2016
CAPABLE OF BEING as sombre as a Sunday night in with Bob Dylan or as wild as a Friday night out with the Pogues, Wilco ...
Jeff Tweedy: At Least That's What He Said
Interview by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, February 2019
The recent publication of his autobiography and the release of his first solo album, Warm, have seen Wilco man Jeff Tweedy reflect on a remarkable ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 14 October 2019
IN 2001, WILCO fired the first shot in a war against an industry that had done them wrong. When Reprise Records rejected their fourth album, ...
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