Today's roundup of quick music news stories

Wilco are streaming their highly anticipated forthcoming album, 'Wilco (The Album)', from their website.

A month and change before its proper release, Wilco (The Album) is streaming at Wilco (The Band)'s site. The humped album art might've hinted at something funny, but the sounds are pretty sober (and also just pretty). Maybe the way they relate to Shriner camel and his orange hat/orange cake in the sunny photo is the crisp, uncluttered midday bri...

Remember when Wilco album covers used to look like this? Even this? Well if Wilco's Wilco (The Album) album title didn't totally deconstruct any lingering whiff of pomo self-seriousness, welcome to the camel party. Via P4K, you are looking at the cover to Wilco's new album: six empty chairs, two humps, one orange cake, and one big LOL. We first ...

Big Star released two albums in the early '70s, neither of which set sales records. Yet in the 35 years that have ensued, artists like R.E.M., Wilco, The Replacements, Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream, Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey, The Bangles and Steve Wynn have enthusiastically acknowledged the band's influence.