AP - To prepare for their current tour, Steely Dan had to relearn their own music.

Last night Wilco played the first show in a sold-out three-night run at the Wiltern Theatre, sure to be attended by fans young and old. Whatever your age group, Wilco's playing relentless marathon sets this tour (last night's was over 2 hours, 28 songs with a 10-song encore), apparently calculated to break everyone's curfews -- even the Wiltern'...

Last night Wilco played the first show in a sold-out three-night run at the Wiltern Theatre, sure to be attended by fans young and old. Whatever your age group, Wilco's playing relentless marathon sets this tour (last night's was over 2 hours, 29 songs with a 10-song encore), apparently calculated to break everyone's curfews -- even the Wiltern'...

Photo by Kathryn YuM.I.A. is just bursting with anticipation for February 8. (Sorry, bad joke.) Sure, that's the night we'll find out if she wins that unlikely (but totally deserved!) Record of the Year Grammy, which is cool and everything. But that's not all that's slated to go down that day.In a post on her MySpace blog titled "BABY + GRAMMY ....

Last month we brought you +/- 's "Snowblind," a dusky, exhilarating track from the Brooklyn trio's forthcoming forth album Xs On Your Eyes (10/21, Absolutely Kosher). In this week's Drop, we offered "Reeling In The Years" (not "Reelin' In The Years," mind you), the Japanese bonus track for the collection. We also caught up with front man James B...