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Wilco’s ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ Hits Top 10 on Album Sales Chart for First Time, After 20th Anniversary Reissue
Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot jumps back onto Billboard’s album charts following its 20th anniversary deluxe reissue on Sept. 30. The set, first released in 2002, re-enters Top Album Sales (dated Oct. 15) at a new peak of No. 4 – and its first week in the top 10 – with 13,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 6 (up from a negligible sales sum a week earlier). Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The album was remastered and reissued across an array of formats, including many with a robust amount of bonus tracks. The formats available on the more affordable end of the spectrum included a $9 digital download album and a $19 double-CD set. More spendy fans could splurge for such packages as a $110 eight-CD set, a $140 seven-vinyl LP packag...
The Best Rock Albums of 2022 (So Far)
Compared to the last couple of years, 2022 has been a bonanza of incredible rock record releases. It seems like every week there are two or three projects just begging for proper time and attention. Many artists who were kept off the road due to the pandemic and were inspired to write during their forced, sabbatical and have returned with fresh perspectives and new sounds. Then there were those who held back some of their best material to wait and see how the state of the world shook out. However they got to 2022, and it’s a joy to finally begin to hear these legitimately righteous records. It’s probably a little too soon for me to declare an absolute favorite album out of the bunch we’ve gotten so far. It’s been such an eclectic year for rock albums, with artists of every stripe truly del...
Phil Lesh, Wilco Uniting as PHILCO at Sacred Rose Festival
In a pairing sure to delight jam band fans and rock aficionados alike, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is teaming with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and guitarist Nels Cline for their first-ever performance as PHILCO this summer. The musicians will collaborate Aug. 26 at the Sacred Rose festival outside of Chicago, in what is being described as “a once-in-a-lifetime musical moment.” PHILCO will perform songs from both the Dead and Wilco, and will also be joined on stage by a host of guest musicians, including Jeff Chimenti (Dead & Co, Wolfpack), Phil Lesh & Friends collaborators John Molo, Stu Allen and Grahame Lesh, and Elliott Peck (Midnight North). Lesh and Wilco have teamed up just once before, when they covered the Dead’s “Ripple” at Wilco’s May 29, 1999 concert in Angels Camp, C...
The Best, The Mess & The Rest: Solid Sound Festival
Solid Sound Festival returned to the Berkshires for the biennial festival which saw fans literally of all ages making a trek to MASS MoCA to see Jeff Tweedy and company celebrate the release of their latest release, Cruel Country. We enlisted a Berkshires resident to document the show and his back still hurts from standing for seven hours straight each day and he now understands why so many people brought camping chairs to the main stage. Live and learn. The Best Wilco – Wilco kicked of their Friday night set with Jeff Tweedy warning, “We aren’t going to talk a lot tonight” and added that this would probably be the only time they would be playing these songs together in reference to the band’s nearly flawless rendition of their brand new 21-track double album, Cruel Country. While the...
Wilco Share Latest Cruel Country Single ‘Tired of Taking It Out on You’
A few weeks ago, Wilco announced that its 12th studio album, Cruel Country, will be released later this month. Today, the band shared a second song from the project, “Tired of Taking It Out on You,” the lyrics of which focus on self-introspection. In a statement, frontman Jeff Tweedy elaborated: “I’ve realized over the years that a lot of the songs I’ve written have worked as reminders to myself to pay attention to various things. Sometimes I think I’ve figured out how the world works in some small way, and I worry I’ll forget it if I don’t sing it back to myself occasionally. This song, I believe, is going to come in handy for just that purpose. I’m a person who needs to stay alert to how I’m treating others when I’m not feeling my best. And now that I mention it, when I look around, it s...
Wilco’s 12th Studio Album Is on the Way
If celebrating the 20th anniversary of their classic album with concerts and a massive boxset, and announcing their own festival wasn’t enough, Wilco have an album of brand new material on the way. The band’s 12th studio album is called Cruel Country, and they shared its first single, “Falling Apart (Right Now),” today. [embedded content][embedded content] Cruel Country is out on May 27, which is the same weekend of Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival, which takes place in Massachusetts. According to a statement, the album was almost entirely composed of live takes while Wilco played together at The Loft in Chicago. The band is slated to perform the record in its entirety for the first time ever at the North Adams, Massachusetts fest. “There have been elements of country music in e...
Wilco Detail Massive Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 20th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set
Wilco‘s landmark Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is getting a massive special edition release to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was released on April 23, 2002. Out on Nonesuch, the record will be released as seven special editions, and the newly remastered version will be part of each set. The largest, the Super Deluxe Edition, can include either 11 vinyl LPs, 1 CD, or 8 CDs, and features 82 previously unreleased tracks. The Super Deluxe, Super Deluxe CD, 7 LP Deluxe, Digital Deluxe, 2 LP, 2 CD Expanded, and Digital editions will all release on September 16. They are all available for digital pre-order now. Wilco’s version of “Reservations” from a July 2002 show in St. Louis is available now. It was initially on Snoozin’ at The Pageant — Live 7/23/02 at The Pageant, St. Lou...
Wilco, Neal Francis Release Live Version of ‘Theologians’
Fellow Chicago-based acts Wilco and Neal Francis are releasing their recent collaborative live version of Wilco’s “Theologians” as a one-day-only digital single, with proceeds to benefit the Chicago-based social impact organization My Block My Hood My City and the International Rescue Committee’s efforts to aid Ukrainian refugees. The track will be available exclusively through Bandcamp on a “pay what you want” basis. This rendition of “Theologians” was recorded Jan. 20 at Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky festival in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Mexican artist Daniel Herrera designed the cover for the download, the original version of which can be found on Wilco’s 2004 album A Ghost Is Born. “As a Chicagoan, I’ve spent most of my life looking up to Wilco, so naturally I was thrilled when they asked me to sit...
Wilco Announce New York City and Chicago Shows to Celebrate Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Turning 20
This September, Wilco is celebrating 20 years since the release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. To start the celebration several months early, because why not, the band just announced two limited runs in honor of the record this April at New York City’s United Palace and Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. Tickets for the rare performances go on sale at 10 a.m. local this Friday, Feb. 11. They’ll perform four nights (April 15, 16, 17, and 19) in New York and two (April 22 and 23) in Chicago. Wilco will rock out to the entirety of the original album, and play a mix of concert favorites and rarities. Not only will the shows celebrate the legendary 2001 record, but they will also prepare Wilco fans for the archival Yankee Hotel Foxtrot re-releases that are set to arrive later this year...
Wilco Reveal 2022 Solid Sound Festival Lineup
Wilco revealed the lineup for their Solid Sound festival this morning. The event will take place over the weekend of May 27-29 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts. In addition to Jeff Tweedy and company, Japanese Breakfast, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, John Hodgman’s Comedy Cabaret, the Sun Ra Arkestra, among many more will head the Berkshires for the show. Tweedy will enlist a group of friends for a special set as well. Passes for the 3-day weekend are nearly sold out. Of course, and it is their festival, Wilco is also set for multiple headlining sets alongside the individual band members’ own various independent projects. Solid Sound will host sounds from all over—rock, jazz, indie, hip hop—and the venue/museum’s own expansive galleries will surro...
The 10 Best Indie and Alternative Steely Dan Covers
Once upon a time, Steely Dan were hipsters. As frontman Donald Fagen explained in his 2013 book, Eminent Hipsters, he and Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker grew up as aficionados of pre-rock ’n roll cool, studying jazz and Beat Generation writers. During the band’s original 1970s run, they were fixtures in the Village Voice critics’ polls even as their music gradually became smoother, slicker, and more popular. “We were kind of on the cusp of the counterculture and whatever happened afterwards,” Fagen told SPIN in a recent interview about the band’s new live album, Northeast Corridor. Over the past half-century, Steely Dan have been heroes and villains in equal measure — subversive iconoclasts to some, banal elevator music hacks to others. Even as they’ve played the role of establishment...
Listen to Wilco Cover The Beatles’ ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ and ‘Dig a Pony’
Wilco just released a pair of Beatles’ covers, taking on “Don’t Let Me Down” and “Dig a Pony.” The tracks were released as a part of Amazon Music’s month-long Rediscover campaign, this time in celebration of The Beatles’ release of a new version of Let It Be on October 15 via Apple Corps Ltd./Capital/UMe. The covers dropped at a fitting time as original, archival footage of the Liverpudlians from those sessions is set to debut on the big screen for the first time ever in Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back documentary in November. “What a delight to convene in The Loft and assay two songs by that cool underground band The Beatles! I envy us!” lead guitarist Nels Cline said. In other news, frontman Jeff Tweedy been keeping busy with his solo works. He recently detailed his upcoming l...
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