Jeff Tweedy

Ten Years Later, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is Still Wilco's Masterpiece

Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is rightfully associated with excellence, a piece of work commonly heralded as one of the best albums of the 2000s. It's the type of record with enough depth, lyricism and experimentation to get people interested in serious music, no small feat for any band, and this one ... More >>

The First Popeye Cartoon in Three Decades is a Wilco Music Video

Image via​Wilco is uniquely positioned as a rock band with the resources to do whatever and a total antipathy for convention. In the last year, we have seen the emergence of Tweedy Family Band the Racconists, a Black Eyed Peas cover set, a guest spot forecasting the weather on WGN and an incre ... More >>

LouFest 2012 Lineup: Who Would You Like to See?

LouFest 2012 has a few announcements coming down the pike, and $50 presale passes are already sold out. The festival, entering its third year, will be looking to once again expand slightly, and hopefully the lineup will continue its trend of evolution. We'll be bringing you our 2012 LouFest lineup ... More >>

Jeff Tweedy Forecasts the Weather on WGN: "Seven Days Seems Kind of Optimistic to Me."

Image via"Looks pretty good. I dunno...things could be worse?"​Jeff Tweedy has been affably impossible to look away from this year. Wilco made a recent appearance on WGN in Chicago, and Tweedy was a good enough sport to stick around for the most noncommittal weather forecast in the history of ... More >>

Wilco At The Peabody Opera House, 10/4/11: Review, Photos, Setlist

Wilco | Nick Lowe Peabody Opera House October 4, 2011 Wilco kicked off an eight-song encore with "Via Chicago," a song against which I refuse to hear arguments. Not that there are many coming, at least from the thousands assembled in the instantly-sold-out Peabody last night -- it, like pretty muc ... More >>

Jeff Tweedy Does The Black Eyed Peas: "I Gotta Feeling," "Rock That Body" and "My Humps"

"People love that shit."​We will stop giving you daily updates on Wilco and/or Jeff Tweedy when it/he stops doing awesome stuff. For your Friday afternoon viewing pleasure, we present the entire Black Eyed Peas cover set Tweedy performed at this week's release of Dan Sinker's The F***ing Epic ... More >>

Jeff Tweedy's Family Band, The Raccoonists, Has Its First Single

The Raccoonists Tumblr Page​Jeff Tweedy has never been known for broadcasting his intentions. So it should come as no surprise that, if he were to start a band with his two sons, Spencer and Sam, they would release their first song as a b-side on a 7" collaboration project with Deerhoof. Tha ... More >>

Chris Mills

9 p.m. Thursday, June 23. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo Part of a new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Exhibit

Annie ZaleskiJeff Tweedy at the Pageant, 2008​Over the weekend, A to Z was in Cleveland and headed to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. To her delight, there was a new exhibit on display called Kick Out the Jams, which focused exclusively on music from the Midwest. Our fair region was w ... More >>

The Ten Best Moments of the 2011 Grammy Awards

​Miss the Grammys telecast? Couldn't care less about the awards? Either way, A to Z watched the entire show - and even some of the pre-show -- so you didn't have to. Here are ten highlights from the night. Mavis Staples winning her first Grammy If you weren't watching the pre-show telecast, y ... More >>

Euclid Records Having a "Pop-Up Store" at Wilco's Solid Sound Festival

Image via​Yesterday, Wilco announced the second edition of its Solid Sound Festival. This year, the event is taking place June 24-26, again at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MOCA for short). Two headline sets by the band are part of this year's festivities, as is a comedy c ... More >>

Still Be Around: A Tribute to Uncle Tupelo

8 p.m. Saturday, December 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

5 Hilarious Signs From the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Image via​Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington D.C. for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" on Saturday expecting to see...well, nobody was really quite sure what to expect. The the event's schedule was kept secret up until ... More >>

LouFest, Day Two: Jeff Tweedy, A Review and a Setlist

Unsurprisingly, Jeff Tweedy's solo appearance was what many LouFesters came to see. Wilco's frontman obliged fans with an 85-minute acoustic set featuring both obscurities and familiar songs. The night's first tune, "Sunken Treasure," conjured chills - from its wavering harmonica and understated aco ... More >>

Mayor Slay Proclaims Today "Jeff Tweedy Day" in St. Louis

A few hours before Wilco's Jeff Tweedy played a rousing solo set at LouFest, Mayor Slay proclaimed it "Jeff Tweedy Day" in St. Louis. The presentation of the proclamation wasn't public; it happened backstage during the afternoon, so there was really nothing to see. (And unfortunately, I don't think ... More >>

Jeff Tweedy finds a kindred spirit in soul legend Mavis Staples, survives the dunk tank

Win a Pair of Two-Day Passes to LouFest!

​LouFest is now mere weeks away. Are you excited? (You should be!) Do you have tickets yet? If not, well, then this blogpost is for you: A to Z has a pair of two-day passes to give away to one lucky person. That's right -- a free pair of passes so you can see Broken Social Scene, She & Him, Lu ... More >>

Vote for Your Favorite LouFest T-Shirt Design!

It's hard to believe that the inaugural LouFest is only a month away. August 28 and 29 in Forest Park you can catch acts such as She & Him, Broken Social Scene, Jeff Tweedy and Alejandro Escovedo. This week, the festival is holding a contest to choose the official LouFest T-shirt. Five designs have ... More >>

LouFest Makes a Lineup Change

Lee HarrisBottle Rockets at KDHX's Midwest Mayhem, 5/14/10​The Bottle Rockets are now opening LouFest on Saturday, August 28. Local folk act Northwoods, who was previously scheduled, had to drop off due to a scheduling conflict. The BoRox will play at noon, kicking off the two-day festival of ... More >>

She & Him, Broken Social Scene, Jeff Tweedy, Built to Spill, Alejandro Escovedo and Airborne Toxic Event Highlight the LouFest Lineup

Taea ThaleShe & Him headline day two of LouFest.​Indie-pop duo She & Him, Canadian rock collective Broken Social Scene, Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy, veteran fuzz-rockers Built to Spill, indie upstarts Airborne Toxic Event and grizzled Texas rocker Alejandro Escovedo are topping the LouFest lin ... More >>

Local Harvest: For the first time ever, Farm Aid comes to St. Louis.

Jay Bennett Sues Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, The Internet Freaks Out

Now that swine flu hysteria appears to be waning, news organizations must be trying to figure out how to fill space. How else to describe the beyond-comprehensive coverage of the breach-of-contract lawsuit ex-Wilco member/one-time Undertow artist Jay Bennett filed against songwriting darling/Be ... More >>

Jeff Tweedy's First Bass Cabinet (Ca. Primitives/Uncle Tupelo) For Sale on Craigslist

Photos: Lollapalooza Day 1 with Cat Power, Raconteurs, Jeff Tweedy, Gogol Bordello, More

Show Review: Wilco at the Pageant, Saturday, May 17

Show Review: Wilco at the Pageant, Friday, May 16

Show Review: Wilco at the Pageant in St. Louis, May 15, 2008

Fifteen things you might not know about the Bottle Rockets, on their fifteenth birthday

Blue, Fish

B-Sides squares off in a debate about Wilco's new Sky Blue Sky, and compares children's-music faves Trout Fishing in America with, well, the real thing.

Chatty Jeff Tweedy Talks Poop and New Wilco Disc

He Bangs the Drums

Wilco's drummer beats a retreat on his solo disc.

Golden Smog

Another Fine Day (Lost Highway)

Loose Fur

Born Again in the U.S.A.(Drag City)

Wilco

Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (Nonesuch)

Like a What?

We check out some "important" songs, mourn ODB and read some, um, crap

The Son Also Rises

Jay Farrar's band is reborn, Nelly sells, and some guys from the 'burbs get signed

Metal Health

We tell Metallica how to get its act together, tour the state with LL Cool J and listen to Wilco

Golden Oldies

We talk with the Old 97's, turn up the freedom rock and marvel at Wilco's PR machine

Sing Uncle

Uncle Tupelo: The Voice of Missouri

Cry Uncle

For Uncle Tupelo fans, there's No Depression in reissue heaven

Loose Fur

Loose Fur (Drag City)

Yankee Hotel Hoopla

Wilco commits commercial suicide and succeeds as never before

Triumph of the Wilco

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart pushes pop propaganda

Wilco with the Preston School of Industry

Tuesday, July 23; Pageant

Doing Our Best

Our intrepid columnist weighs in with her faves for the year that was

Farrar and Away

With Sebastopol, Jay Farrar has made one of the finest and most unusual records of his storied career

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

Sunken Treasure

Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the best album this year. Here's why you can't listen to it.

WILCO

Summer Teeth (Reprise)

Here Comes the Summer

Jeff Tweedy used to be in a band called Uncle Tupelo. He's not anymore.