Wilco (Band)

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 Bonnaroo 2013 Lineup Announcement Is Here [Updated With Complete Lineup]

[UPDATE: The complete lineup is now on page two of this post.] Right now, even as I type this, Weird Al Yankovic is in the midst of a three-hour long live streaming video announcement for this year's Bonnaroo Festival, a four-day event that takes place every year in Manchester, Tennessee. As one wh ... More >>

JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound

8 p.m. Sunday, December 30. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Santah

9 p.m. Thursday, August 23. Plush, 3224 Locust Street.

Win Passes to the Forecastle Music Festival in Louisville, Featuring Wilco, Sleigh Bells, Neko Case and More

The Forecastle Music Festival, which will take place this weekend in Louisville, Kentucky, boasts more than just a big name lineup -- it will also feature the Sustainable Living Roadshow, art exhibitions, the Kentucky Bourbon Lodge and a poster show. Though let's not kid ourselves: The lineup is wha ... More >>

The Six Best Effect-Enhanced Guitar Solos

Ever since prehistoric man hit a stick and a rock together and thought "I bet that would sound sweet through a delay pedal," musicians have craved new sonic avenues for their instruments. Here are the six best effect-enhanced guitar solos, including the time in which each solo begins. Let us know wh ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Chris Corsano

7:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28. Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 North Grand Boulevard.

JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound at Off Broadway, 12/10/11: Review and Photos

Mike Appelstein​JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound | Bailiff Off Broadway December 10, 2011 Toward the end of its set at Off Broadway last night, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound's bassist Ben Taylor addressed the crowd. Though they'd spent the last few months touring America and Europe, he said, they ... More >>

Better burgers, worse concert experiences: Readers kvetch

The Peabody reopens in a new St. Louis Music market

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 >>

Wilco's The Whole Love: Now Streaming In Its Entirety

​The new, much anticipated Wilco album doesn't come out for another week, but you can listen to The Whole Love right now; it's streaming on NPR's invaluable First Listen series. Wilco, of course, will be playing the newly-reopened Peabody Opera House on October 4th, though the show has been ... More >>

Wilco Gets the Lullabye Treatment: Listen To A Soothing "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart"

​No one can accuse this of being dad rock: On Aug. 30, Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star, a series that transforms artists' songs into children's lullabies, released a Wilco edition. The album features twelve tracks including "Heavy Metal Drummer" and "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart." Twinkle ... More >>

Wilco at the Peabody: Ticket Presale and Other Show Information

​You can start buying Wilco tickets on Thursday, and we're guessing you'll want to act quickly. For those of you just tuning in, Wilco is playing at the Peabody Opera House on October 4th in support of its new album, The Whole Love. That comes out on September 27th, so you'll have plenty of ti ... More >>

Wilco is Coming to the Peabody Opera House

Everyone get excited!​Wilco just announced a string of North American tour dates for this fall, and St. Louis has one of them: October 4th at the Peabody Opera House. You can see the announcement on the band's official Facebook page, but it's not on the Peabody site yet, and Wilco's own site i ... 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 >>

Mumford and Sons, Ke$ha, the Avett Brothers, Wilco and Tornado Warnings: Beale Street Diary

Katie Moulton​Ed: Last weekend, the Beale Street Music Festival welcomed one of the stranger lineups of the season to Memphis: Cee-Lo Green, Ke$ha, Mumford & Sons, Jon Mellencamp, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, Gregg Allman and more. We sent Katie Moulton on a last minute road-trip and she brought ... 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 >>

Wilco (The Coffee): Order By This Sunday!

Image via​Do you need the perfect holiday gift for the Wilco fan on your list? Have you already given them the Wilco scarf, Wilco insulated lunch tote, Wilco album transport case and Wilco dog sweater? This year, given him the gift that'll keep him alert so he can listen to Wilco into the we ... More >>

Everest

8 p.m. Sunday, November 14. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Guster/Everest

8 p.m. Saturday, October 9. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

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

Quintron and Miss Pussycat

9 p.m. Tuesday, June 22. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

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 >>

On Fillmore Playing the Wilco-Curated Solid Sound Fest. Also: See Darin Gray Thrash With Dazzling Killmen.

Euclid Records' Youtube channel strikes again: Last week they uploaded several videos of time-signature-shredders Dazzling Killmen playing live on Criticalmass from back in the day. The one above, "Serpentarium," is a particularly mind-throttling example of the group's post-rock maelstrom. Bassist ... More >>

JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound

10 p.m. Friday, March 26. The Gramophone, 4243 Manchester Avenue.

Retribution Gospel Choir

8 p.m. Tuesday, February 16. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Quick Hits: The Body at Apop Records, Califone Coming to Town, Stace England on NPR

*Tonight at Apop Records, Providence, Rhode Island, screamagers the Body are performing. Ghost Ice and Catholic Guilt are also on the bill. The show's just $5. *Congratulations to Stace England, who recently appeared on NPR to talk about The Amazing Oscar Micheaux, his album of music about the lif ... More >>

Impermanent Vacation: Darin Gray and Glenn Kotche reactivate their instrumental project, On Fillmore

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

Review Setlist: Wilco at Farm Aid, October 4, 2009

Fellow RFT writer Christian Schaeffer made a salient observation about Wilco during its Farm Aid set: Seeing the band in a festival setting is an entirely different experience than seeing it in a club. Compared to the band's three-night Pageant stand last year, this was certainly the case. Those sho ... More >>

Review Setlists: Phosphorescent, Will Dailey, Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses, Lukas Nelson, Jamey Johnson at Farm Aid, Sunday, October 4

The 24th annual Farm Aid started with the old-school gospel quartet harmonies of the Blackwood Brothers and enough warm sunshine to persuade all the family farms in Missouri -- the Show Me State has the second highest number of farms in the Union -- that their summer work is far from over. What Will ... More >>

Dr. Dog

8:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 30. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

Anders Parker

9 p.m. Monday, April 21. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

Local Motion: White Thrash

5 p.m. Tuesday, July 3. White Flag Projects, 4568 Manchester Avenue.

Blue Mountain

11 p.m. Thursday, June 7. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

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.

The Autumn Defense

9 p.m Thursday, February 8. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

He Bangs the Drums

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

Golden Smog

Another Fine Day (Lost Highway)

Billy Bragg and Wilco

Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2 (Elektra)

16 Deluxe

The local-music compilation Suite 16 has womanly charms to please almost any listener

Wilco

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

Critical Mass

RFT music critics offer a cut-and-paste compendium of the year in music. Everyone's wrong. Everyone's right.

R.E.M./Wilco

Riverport Amphitheatre; Thursday, Aug. 19

WILCO

Summer Teeth (Reprise)

Here Comes the Summer

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

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