While this blog tends to focus on the guitar-related aspects of the music scene (for good reason: the founder plays guitar as does this contributor), here’s a treat for the drum geeks out there. The L.A. Times has a really interesting Q&A with Glenn Kotche, the drummer for Wilco. Here’s… Read More →
The short version is that Nels Cline plays lead guitar for Wilco. Then again, you could just as easily say that Wilco plays with Nels Cline, because Cline’s jazz-influenced, improvisational style is sort of a unique thing – both with the hit band and in a number of solo and… Read More →
Grammy-winning rockers Wilco will swing through Hartford, CT, in April for a show at The Bushnell performing arts center — but the size of the venue means tickets are going fast. Tickets for the show went on sale last Friday, but the band assured us yesterday that seats are still… Read More →
There are a couple of albums that I consider lost in time. To me, music does tend to reinvent itself anyway. It’s something like a massive solera system, where it all takes a similar path, filters out and ultimately pours out of the same cask — albeit with different nuances…. Read More →
This year’s Bonnaroo festival in Tennesee closed out with a bang yesterday, with Phish doing the second of two of their shows and bringing Saturday night’s headliner, Bruce Springsteen, on stage. It’s hard to envision a better finale for the four-day festival on the 700-acre Manchester farm. (photo courtesy of… Read More →
An Illinois coroner says that more tests are needed to determine the cause of death of former Wilco bandmember Jay Bennett, who died in his sleep Sunday in his Illinois home, as Billboard magazine and others reported earlier in the week. Bennett, who left the band in 2001, was 45…. Read More →
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy tells Roling Stone Magazine that the band’s next release will be their best, and will feature more studio work than their jam-based Sky Blue Sky release from 2007. “We wanted to go in there with more of an eye for sculpting something sonically,” Tweedy said. RS… Read More →