Is “Wilco (The Song)” off of Wilco: The Album a deep cut? Who cares — it was a perfect way for the band to end a fan-friendly Friday night set at Solid Sound 2024, because even when you’re playing nothing but (relative) obscurities and rarities, you still gotta finish with a statement.

On Friday, Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival 2024 began in North Adams, MA. The day was advertised as a set of deep cuts, and the indie rock band delivered on that promise with a ton of rarities and live debuts.

Wilco are back with a new EP today called Hot Sun Cool Shroud, coinciding with this year’s iteration of their own Solid Sound festival. If you weren’t able to snag tickets to see them play new stuff and deep cuts at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art this weekend, may we interest you in a six-keyboard Wurlitzer?

On Saturday, Bleachers performed at Chicago’s Salt Shed, bringing songs from last year’s self-titled to the stage. The indie pop band surprised the crowd with a cover of Lana Del Rey’s “Margaret” with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy.

The least-loved albums by veteran artists tend to find their way, in time, to critical rehabilitation. It’s practically an inevitability, particularly if the artist in question is deemed sufficiently historic. Lou Reed’s notorious Metal Machine Music was reviled on its release only to become recontextualized as the urtext of the hars...