New Wilco Album, Tour, Book, DVD

Spring will be a good time to be a Wilco fan.

We've already informed you that the Chicago band will release their Ashes Of American Flags DVD in April. But now we can tell you that a tour will start in April, a Wilco book will be published in May and a new album will arrive in June.

The new record doesn't yet have a title, release date or track list, but it's expected to include "Wilco, The Song" (which the band played on The Colbert Report last year), "Deeper Down," "My Country Has Disappeared," "Sunny Feeling" and "One Wing," according to Rollingstone.com.

Most of the album's basic tracks were recorded in January in Neil Finn's Auckland, New Zealand studio after singer/guitarist Jeff Tweedy, bassist John Stirratt, multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone and drummer Glenn Kotche went to the land of the kiwi in December to contribute to a Finn album that will raise money for Oxfam International.

Producer/engineer/mixer Jim Scott — who mixed Wilco's Summerteeth, Sky Blue Sky and Being There albums — was at the production controls. Guitarist Nels Cline and keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen added their parts later at Wilco's Chicago studio, The Loft.

Wilco: The Essential Interviews was compiled and edited by American music writer John Luerssen. The 284-page book's interviews start in 1995, when Wilco released their A.M. debut, and carry forward to last year's Australian tour. It will be published by Rock Reader Books/Lulu on May 12, but is available for advance purchase and immediate delivery here.

Tweedy will play these solo shows:

March 26 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground w/Pronto
March 27 Northampton, MA @ Calvin Theatre w/Pronto
March 28 Beacon, NY @ Beacon High Auditorium

Here are Wilco's dates:

April 14-15 Milwaukee, WI @ The Pabst Theater w/A Hawk And A Hacksaw
April 16 Bloomington, IN @ Indiana University Auditorium w/A Hawk And A Hacksaw
April 17 Athens, OH @ Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium w/A Hawk And A Hacksaw
April 18 Knoxville, TN @ Tennessee Theatre w/A Hawk And A Hacksaw
April 20 Athens, GA @ Classic Center w/A Hawk And A Hacksaw
April 21 Asheville, NC @ Thomas Wolfe Auditorium w/A Hawk And A Hacksaw
April 22 Birmingham, AL @ Sloss Furnaces w/A Hawk And A Hacksaw
April 23 Oxford, MS @ The Lyric Theatre w/A Hawk And A Hacksaw
April 25 New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 23 Tenerife, Canary Islands @ Tenerife Auditorium
May 25 Malaga, Spain @ Teatro Cervantes w/Akron/Family
May 26 Madrid, Spain @ Teatro Calderon w/Akron/Family
May 29 Seville, Spain @ Territorios Festival, La Cartuja
May 30 Porto, Portugal @ Teatro Circo
May 31 Lisbon, Portugal @ Lisbon Coliseu
June 1 Santiago De Compostela, Spain @ Palacio De Congresos, Sala Braque
June 3 San Sebastian, Spain @ Kursaal
June 4 Barcelona, Spain @ Auditori De Barcelona
June 11-14 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
July 23 Detroit Lakes, MN @ 10,000 Lakes Festival
Aug. 21 Erfurt-Hohenfelden, Germany @ Highfield Festival