Jeff Tweedy

The Six Best Wilco Guitar Solos

The LouFest lineup announcement has inspired excitement and criticism in equal parts, but the one undeniable act on the bill is Wilco. The Chicago via Belleville band means many things to many people, but in the festival headliner context, the group is one of the best live rock & roll bands in the u ... More >>

The Six Best Songs About Murdering A Significant Other

Valentine's Day is upon us, a time to celebrate relationships or hate those celebrating. But for those relationships that don't end well, here are the six best songs about murdering a significant other. Let us know your favorites in the comments, but we suggest using a public computer with an untrac ... More >>

The Six Best Non-Metal Songs About Heavy Metal

Songwriters love riffing on folklore, be it nursery rhymes or Biblical parables. Over the years, heavy metal has developed its own brand of legend, so much so that stylistically disparate musicians have used it as a springboard for creatively disparate songs. Here are the six best non-metal songs ab ... More >>

Wilco and Jay Farrar will Release Woody Guthrie Tribute Albums This Year. Separately.

Photos by Jason StoffIf nothing else, Jay Farrar (left) and Jeff Tweedy (right) agree on Woody Guthrie.​Over the weekend, Billy Bragg announced that he and Wilco would release a third installment in their Mermaid Avenue series. The albums draw inspiration from Woody Guthrie's notebooks of unre ... More >>

Jay Farrar's Woody Guthrie Tribute Album, New Multitudes, is Out in February

Woody Guthrie left behind notebooks full of words, snippets and entire lyrics. The Woody Guthrie Foundation, led by his daughter Nora, has been lending them to artists to create music around his words. You may remember the series' most successful installment to date, Wilco and Billy Bragg's collabor ... More >>

JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound

9 p.m. Saturday, December 10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

The Six Best "Bad" Guitar Solos

Eddie Van Halen demonstrates the exact opposite of this idea.​The guitar solo has become an integral part of the rock and roll formula, either as a melodic counterpoint to a vocal line or an excuse for showing off. But there's a different kind of solo out there. The kind that, by all technical ... More >>

Death Cab For Cutie At The Pageant, 10/2/11: Review, Photos and Setlist

Photo by Jason Stoff​Death Cab For Cutie The Pageant October 2, 2011 Ben Gibbard has left us. The melancholic Ben Gibbard we once knew is gone, for all intents and purposes. He's skinny now, having swapped drinking for running, and he's got a new, Jordan Catalano haircut. He's visibly bouncy, ... More >>

LouFest Is Building Deep Roots

23 Musicians with Michele Bachmann Eyes: Horrifying and Hypnotic

Jeff Tweedy as the Queen of Rage​Michelle Bachmann's Newsweek cover, on which she stares out icily over the headline The Queen Of Rage, has provoked intense reaction, mostly because of Bachmann's rapidly ballooning public caricature, but at least partly because the look in her eyes is somethin ... More >>

Wilco's New Song: The Five Kinds Of Reviews For "I Might"

​There's a new Wilco song out, and every music-blogger in America who discovered indie music via Yankee Hotel Foxtrot about ten years ago has already prepared to react. I have done my best to save you a little time by writing every possible review of this track, "I Might," you might encounter ... More >>

Try Ronnie's Strawberry Sorbet at the Fire and Ice Cream Truck

Robin WheelerStrawberry sorbet and the coolest food truck in St. Louis​ The Fire and Ice Cream Truck beat the food truck trend by a few years, quietly selling locally made ice cream from a rehabbed vintage fire truck along the riverfront. But now the truck has joined the fray, moving to a semi ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: February 25 to 27

Image via​Is winter over yet? Argh. Here are the shows we've highlighted in the paper this week; that link include a ton of shows. And below, here are ten other things to do this weeked in St. Louis -- that is, if you're not going to Randy Newman. Friday Celebration Day: A Tribute to Led Ze ... More >>

The top ten St. Louis music news stories in 2010

Top Ten St. Louis Music News Stories of 2010

Wikimedia Commons​As the old saying goes, no news is good news. However, no local news makes for a rather-boring music section - or music blog, as the case may be. If you aren't a regular visitor to this here music blog, definitely become one: We compile breaking news, show reviews and local t ... More >>

Ten Artists We'd Like to See at LouFest 2011

Last week LouFest announced the dates of its second festival and immediately started selling discounted two-day passes to brave souls willing to buy without knowing the line-up in advance. No word on when an official announcement will be made about who'll be playing. But in the meantime, it's fun ... More >>

Show Review: Still Be Around: A Tribute to Uncle Tupelo, Off Broadway, Saturday, December 4

​When big events hit St. Louis, like Loufest, the first question is always, "Will Uncle Tupelo reunite for this?" Probably not. Instead, fans got something just as special at Still Be Around: A Tribute to Uncle Tupelo. Instead of a nostalgic trip back to the early '90s, the audience got a glimpse ... More >>

LouFest Returns in 2011, Pre-Sale Tickets On Sale Now!

​Mark your calendars for August 27 and 28, 2011: LouFest will be returning to Forest Park in St. Louis. In a statement released this morning, organizer Brian Cohen says: "We are excited to have year two now under way. In our first year I think we exceeded expectations. We're hoping to do th ... More >>

Ten Memorable Shows at The Pageant, In Honor Of Its Tenth Birthday

This Saturday, the Pageant celebrates its tenth birthday with a concert by Chuck Berry. $35 general admission tickets are still available; balcony seats are sold out. The show starts at 8 p.m. with a set from Shooting With Annie. In the venue's lengthy history (a PDF listing its shows is a whoppi ... More >>

LouFest, Day Two: Alejandro Escovedo

Jon GitchoffAlejandro Escovedo at LouFest. More photos from day two here.​Alejandro Escovedo, who had the unenviable task of playing before Jeff Tweedy, is cooler than all of us. That's a simple, unassailable fact - and not just because he sported a long-sleeved jacket, as if to spite the humi ... More >>

George Clinton Named an Honorary Citizen of the Delmar Loop

Jeff Tweedy wasn't the only one receiving an official proclamation this weekend: On Saturday at Vintage Vinyl, funk pioneer George Clinton was named an honorary citizen of the Delmar Loop. The presentation of his citizenship happened during his in-store appearance. Here's a pic of Joe Edwards and Mr ... More >>

LouFest, Day One: Bottle Rockets, stephaniesid, Airborne Toxic Event

Jason StoffBottle Rockets kick out the jams. Check out our entire slideshow of LouFest Day One.​​"These are the first musical notes of Loufest!" Brian Henneman crowed, and the members of the Bottle Rockets were off, igniting the first set of St. Louis' inaugural LouFest. The BoRox wasn't on ... More >>

Festival of Creations: St. Louis gets its own music festival in Forest Park

Summertime St. Louis comes alive with the sound of music

Vintage Vinyl Says: "Don't Quit Your Day Job!"

​Record stores have have long counted talented musicians among their ranks. A young Aimee Mann worked the counter at Boston's famous Newbury Comics chain, while locally, Jeff Tweedy worked at Euclid Records during his Uncle Tupelo days. But for this year's Record Store Day -- which takes place ... More >>

Show Review Photos: A Place to Bury Strangers at the Firebird, Sunday, October 25

Shae Moseley​ Between songs at last night's Firebird show, A Place to Bury Strangers guitarist/vocalist Oliver Ackermann crouched down over a mysterious, suitcase-sized box with cables protruding from it. He dialed knobs like some kind of short-wave-radio operator tuning in scrambled signals f ... More >>

Dolphins Stadium Might Be Named After Jimmy Buffett's Beer Ideas for St. Louis

The Daily RFT reports: Anheuser-Busch is said to be working on a contract to purchase the naming rights to Dolphins Stadium in Miami. If concluded, the stadium would be the second professional sports stadium -- after Busch Stadium -- to name itself after an A-B product. The St. Louis brewer (via B ... More >>

Jeff Tweedy's Son Spencer: His Blog Is Better Than Yours

(Via Stereogum) When you were thirteen, what were you doing? Me, I listened to a lot of R.E.M., had poofy hair and braces and wrote angsty, depressed journal entries about how terrible my life was and how Spanish class sucked. But kids these days -- man, they're just so sophisticated. Take Jeff Twee ... More >>

Lollapalooza Photos

More on No Depression, By Roy Kasten

Jesse Lacey / Kevin Devine

6:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 8. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Goldrush

The Heart Is the Place (Better Looking)

Jay Bennett

9 p.m. Saturday, October 21. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).

Nora O'Connor

Wednesday, March 23; Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

Jay Bennett

The Beloved Enemy (Undertow)

Various Artists

Touch My Heart: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck (Sugar Hill Records)

Journalistic Integrity

Bob Edwards knows whereof he writes

A Touch of Gray

The jam-band community pulls together for one heck of a funeral

What's It Sound Like, Anyway?

Meet the ghost of guitarist Jay Bennett

Ghost in the Machine

The new Wilco album has been leaked. Should we feel guilty for listening?

Steal the Crumbs

Some so-called friends pay tribute to Uncle Tupelo

The Boys Are Back in Town

Gateway Men's Chorus sings out

Tradition's Slave

A selection of the local music scene's best and brightest offerings

Tune Town

St. Louis welcomes three acts you won't want to miss

Lo and Behold

Hot nightspot Lo has rescinded its prohibition of drum & bass

Billy Bragg and Wilco

Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2 (Elektra)

Wilco

Sunday, July 23; Blue Note (Columbia, Mo.)

SALLY TIMMS

Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos (Bloodshot)

R.E.M./Wilco

Riverport Amphitheatre; Thursday, Aug. 19

Listening Post