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Wilco Prove Price Was Right

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By Travis Persaud (CHARTattack) October 15, 2009 4:37 pm
Bob Barker would have been proud. Wilco walked on stage with the theme music from The Price Is Right filling Toronto's Massey Hall as all three tiers of the aural pleasing venue whooped and hollered. Wilco (the band) began the first of two sold-out shows with "Wilco (The Song)" to warm up the crowd — the entire floor section standing...
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Wilco's Jeff Tweedy (Photo by Zack Vitiello)
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Wilco — Wilco (The Album)

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 8, 2009 2:04 pm
Wilco (The Album) is a pretty straightforward title, and appropriately, Wilco's seventh studio album is their most straightforward and poppiest release since 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. That's not to say Wilco (The Album) is boring — it's not. Like 2007's Sky Blue Sky, it's far less experimental than 2004's A Ghost Is Born, but unlike the...
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Lollapalooza Day Two With RATM

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) August 6, 2008 2:48 pm
Lolla's hump day is often the toughest slog, but two things prevented that this year. First, the humidity held off for one afternoon, and a cool breeze from the lake was a welcome respite from Friday's heat assault. Second, there was nothing worth seeing before 2:30 p.m. — just an iPod commercial band, two kids who are friends with Karen O and a...
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Wilco's Jeff Tweedy (Photo by Rachel Verbin)

Oh, The People You'll See At The Wilco Show

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) July 3, 2007 1:00 pm
Wilco played close to the same set I saw them perform almost exactly one year ago in the same venue, so I spent a lot more time observing the crowd, which was one of the weirdest I've witnessed in ages. So here are some of the types of people you might encounter during future nights you spend with the band. John Tory Acolytes: Apparently, young...
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Wilco — Sky Blue Sky

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) May 15, 2007 2:19 pm
Remember a few years ago when Wilco were being hailed as "American Radiohead?" Well, those days are gone. In their place we have "good American band, formerly great." It's hard not to generally like Sky Blue Sky because, on a basic level, Wilco are still a solid group, and technically more proficient than ever. But that's the...
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Wilco Get Participation When They Ask For It

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) July 10, 2006 4:30 pm
In music criticism, there's an unfair comparison game that takes place every time a new singer-songwriter with vague promise breaks through to the mainstream — someone inevitably compares them to Bob Dylan. And while it's tremendously unfair that Dylan gets compared to every KT Tunstall and Willy Mason who falls out of the tree, it's also unfair...
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Wilco — Kicking Television: Live In Chicago

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) November 15, 2005 9:40 am
Wilco's first live album is the definition of mixed bag. On the plus side, the sound in Chicago's Old Vic Theatre is immaculate and the band are probably the tightest Wilco have ever been. On the other hand, this is one of those live discs where it feels as though the setlist has been crafted specifically to highlight one record (A Ghost Is Born)...
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Wilco — A Ghost Is Born

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By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth (CHARTattack) June 22, 2004 3:04 pm
Wilco can be tricky. The critically revered band have morphed from an adventurous alt.country outfit to the rare kind of band that defies any sort of easy description, as realized on their last album, 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. If Foxtrot was Wilco’s OK Computer, A Ghost Is Born is their Kid A. Almost impenetrable on a first listen, the...
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BEST OF JANUARY 2012: Our 15 favourite music videos

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) February 2, 2012 12:31 pm
Sure, you were busy with your “job” or “education” this January, but is that really an excuse for missing out on the myriad of music videos that make the blog rounds every day? Can you truly justify spending your ever-fleeting free time on “family” or “socializing”? You can? Oh, sorry. Well, it's just your luck — we've rounded up our 15 favourite...
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WATCH: Wilco and Popeye team up for “Dawned On Me” official music video

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By Mike Searle (CHARTattack) January 25, 2012 11:26 am
You are about to witness a match made in cartoon heaven. At long last, Wilco are finally paired with your favourite swashbuckling, spinach-overdosing, muscle freak Popeye the Sailor Man in the music video for “Dawned On Me”. The track comes off Wilco's latest effort The Whole Love and is the band’s first music video since 1999! It was worth the...
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WATCH: Jeff Tweedy's son's video for "Whole Love"

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By Colton Eddy (CHARTattack) January 6, 2012 1:25 pm
Jeff Tweedy and his sons share a special musical bond.  His eldest son, Spencer posted a video on his Vimeo account of The Whole Love's title track. It features his youngest son, Sam, with their best friend Joey and Rookie Magazine editor-in-chief Tavi Gevison. It lives up to the hype that Tavi and Spencer stirred up when they...
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LISTEN: Stream Wilco's opening night of their "Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago"

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By Mike Searle (CHARTattack) December 27, 2011 1:25 pm
The city of Chicago has always played an important part in Wilco's career. It's their hometown; they've written songs about it, released a live album and now have named a tour after the Windy City. The "Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago" kicked off earlier this month with Wilco playing in Chicago five consecutive nights at five different venues...
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WATCH: Jeff Tweedy of Wilco reports the weather

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By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) December 15, 2011 1:32 pm
Fellow Chicagoans and recent Grammy nominees Wilco are currently at home doing what they do best: playing shows and delivering the weather.  Jeff Tweedy brought his wry wit and meteorologist training to Chicago’s local news outlet WGN, delivering the weather and letting us know that “things could be worse.”  Very optimistic. The rest of...
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LISTEN: Wilco performs “I Might” and more for Daytrotter

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) December 13, 2011 10:08 am
Our favourite alt rockers Wilco recently paid a visit to the amazing folks at Daytrotter to perform a handful of cuts from their 2011 release The Whole Love, and the four-song set is now available for streaming.These gorgeous recordings are an excellent snapshot of the Chicago outfit's flawless live show, so do yourself a favour and stream the...
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Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy is producing Chicago hip-hop band Kids These Days

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) November 21, 2011 6:50 pm
Well here's an unexpected pairing: Jeff Tweedy (of the acclaimed rock outfit Wilco) is lending his production skills to Kids These Days -- a group of teenagers (none over nineteen years old) that create genre-blending hip-hop/jazz/rock music.The eight-piece band has one EP under their belt, and have enlisted Tweedy's help on their forthcoming LP...
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I Read The News Today... For June 30, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 30, 2011 2:49 pm
Domestic violence awareness groups are planning to protest Odd Future's set at the Pitchfork Music Festival next month. Tyler, The Creator obviously thinks this is "awesome." Tokyo Police Club keyboardist Graham Wright is touring Canada this summer to support his just-released Shirts Vs. Skins debut solo album. He'll be out with Library Voices,...
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Song Of The Day: Wilco's "I Might"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 28, 2011 3:02 pm
"I Might" is the first single from Wilco's upcoming new album, The Whole Love. The LP doesn't have a specific street date yet, but it's expected to be released sometime in September. The tune is a fuzzed-out jam that sounds a bit like Loose Fur, Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche's project with Jim O'Rourke. It also vaguely resembles the material on...
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I Read The News Today... For June 28, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 28, 2011 2:53 pm
The Besnard Lakes will release a new EP dubbed You Lived In The City on Sept. 20, which features music they recorded for an interactive documentary earlier this year. They're also touring with Malajube this fall. Brother have been forced to change their name to Viva Brother. Viva non-stop band names. Wilco's new album is going to be called The...
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I Read The News Today... For April 25, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 25, 2011 4:21 pm
Who's on The Lonely Island's new album? Why, only Akon, Beck, Snoop Dogg, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Nicki Minaj, John Waters, Santigold and... Michael frickin' Bolton. —Los Angeles Times Our Lady Peace are working on their next album and have been uploading short studio videos to YouTube. Like this one: Former Guns N' Roses member Duff...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 27, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 27, 2011 2:01 pm
Toronto's Dinosaur Bones will release their My Divider debut album on March 8 through Dine Alone. It was produced by Jon Drew, who's handled discs by Tokyo Police Club, Fucked Up and Arkells, so hopefully it'll be pretty good. Born Ruffians have just announced a Canadian tour that'll take place from mid-March to early April. They're out in support...
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