To the sold out crowd who spent their Easter Sunday nights packed liked sardines in the Heartbreak Hotel in downtown Providence, there was an excitable energy in the air for some good ol’ alt-country. True to form of the past few tour legs, Wilco opened the anticipated set with “Wilco (the song)”, and then proceeded [...]
After a busy touring season last year, Wilco’s back on the road with a whole new set of dates for thespring.
See the dates after the jump and note the date in bold.
02-07 Missoula, MT – Adams Center *
02-09 Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Hall *
02-10 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre *
02-12 Victoria, British Columbia *
02-13 Vancouver, British [...]
Skip Spence’s 1969 album “Oar” is the latest subject of Beck’s Record Club, “an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day.”
If Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was the peak of Wilco’s turn-of-the-millenium lo-fi-goes-to-the-movies pre-post-hipster-chic (idk what all that means), then Wilco (The Album) represents the band’s return to their alt-country twangy roots (see A.M.). Jeff Tweedy’s vocals are honest, comforting, and consistent, giving the listener a remarkably clear picture of what kind of band Wilco really is: [...]