During quarantine, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has been doing some family bonding and putting it up online. With his wife and his songs, Tweedy has been doing a regular Instagram Live broadcast that he's been calling The Tweedy Show. Sometimes, the show involves covers. (That's where Jeff played a John Prine song shortly after Prine's…

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has posted a lengthy statement calling for an industry-wide reparations initiative. "The modern music industry is built almost entirely on Black art," he writes. "The wealth that rightfully belonged to Black artists was stolen outright and to this day continues to grow outside their communities." He has pledged to comm...

Wilco have entered the contribution to the canon of 2020 quarantine songs. "Tell Your Friends," a bleary and majestic new ballad from the Chicago legends, is all about maintaining connections during lockdown and anticipating a joyous return to physical touch: "Don’t forget to tell your friends/ When you see them again/ O’ I love you/&#82...

God bless the power of human confidence. Right now, with pandemic fears tanking the stock market and with festivals and big tours shutting down, it seems like a massive act of hubris to announce that your band is hitting the road this summer. And yet that's what some bands are doing. Wilco and Sleater-Kinney, for…

Last month, Built To Spill announced a Daniel Johnston covers album, Built To Spill Plays The Songs Of Daniel Johnston, which they recorded while preparing to perform with Johnston at the Vancouver date of his final tour. It's the second tribute album to come out of that tour following Wilco's vinyl-only live album, which chronicled…