The selected songs cover a broad swath of the musical spectrum, with upbeat pop numbers like Florence and the Machine's "You Got the Love," and cool classics like known Obama favorite, "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green. Sandwiched in between are a few head-scratchers like Ricky Martin, or clear Red State pandering cuts like "My Town" by Montgomery Gentry. more ›

Did you enjoy the new video for Wilco's "Dawned On Me" we posted yesterday? We discovered there's more the Wilco / Popeye collaboration than initially meets the eye... more ›

Wilco enlists the aid of a certain sailor man who loves his spinach. in their latest video. more ›

Spencer Tweedy's dad's band made an album last year, so young Spencer decided to shoot a video for one of its songs with a few of his friends, including Oak Park's Tavi Gevinson. more ›

Wilco and WXRT released a video from the band's performance at the Metro last week more ›

Tweedy and company performed... let's call them "busker" versions of "The Whole Love" and "Dawned on Me" on the show. That's how much effort WGN placed into the sound mix. more ›

Earlier this fall, Chicago alt-rock heroes Wilco released The Whole Love, the band’s eighth proper LP and their first release since forming their own record label (though ANTI- is distributing it) and it’s already heralded as the band’s best album since 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The band also self-produced the album and there are certain flourishes - dense layers of organ and percussion - that separate the album from previous efforts even as the band continues, overall, to sound like, well, Wilco. more ›

Wednesday night's Grammy nominations may have shaped as the Adele show, with Bon Iver crashing the party in much the same way The Arcade Fire did last year. But this is Chicagoist and we're gonna focus on the local acts. more ›

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy recently gave his support to the Occupy Wall Street movement, perhaps making future Rahm for Mayor fundraisers he plays, really, really awkward. more ›

Tickets for Wilco's Dec. 18 Lincoln Hall show go on sale 10 a.m. Saturday via etix.com and be prepared to shell out some money if you want to go. more ›

Get your credit cards ready. Here are the best upcoming concerts to go on sale this week. more ›

Usually we're complaining that Jeff Tweedy and the boys overlook Chicago when touring but heck if they're not remedying that this winter a they promote their latest album The Whole Love! They just added a fourth Chicago show -- following appearances at The Civic Opera House, The Riv and The Vic -- at The Metro. So if you've been shut out of seeing the band thus far, perhaps fourth time's the charm when tickets go on sale Saturday, October 15, at 10 a.m.! more ›

Wilco has found a pleasant pace the band is obviously pretty comfortable with now. Their new album The Whole Love sees them crafting a collection of pretty tight little pop rockers that will satisfy most. more ›

Back from a two-year hiatus, the Hideout pulled in a few marquee names for this year's Block Party that have personal connections not only to Chicago but to the venue itself. more ›

Also, tickets for the band's December Civic Opera shows will go on sale Saturday morning at 10 a.m. more ›

If you listened to Wilco new album The Whole Love when it was streaming last Sunday you know that the band is set to turn out not only a highly anticipated album but one that -- upon initial listens at least -- seems to continue the trend of the band getting ever better with age after a brief stagnant period. Let's further build excitement with this just-released video for a track from the disc's center point, "Born Alone," shot my Chicago musician / filmmaker Mark Greenberg. more ›

You have less than 24 hours to catch this sneak-peek at the new Wilco album. more ›

Here's an early Christmas present for the denim jacket wearing, bedhead coiffed, scruffy bearded man in your life. Tickets aren't on sale yet. We just wanted to get you frothing at the mouth. more ›

Is anyone surprised that a Wilco-themed bicycle is a single-speed bike with a fixed hub option, painted in sky blue? more ›

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy was in Toronto for a concert recently and stopped for a bite at a sandwich shop, The name of the shop? Sky Blue Sky Sandwich Company LTD. We have no excuse as to why this idea didn't make our list of things to which Wilco could lend their brand name. Tweedy also shows a droll sense of humor in his review of the sandwich shop, saying, "Lunch was really good, but, to be honest, I prefer their earlier more experimental sandwiches." more ›

Seeing as how Jeff Tweedy endorsed our new Mayor-elect, we thought it would be fitting that we just play something from Wilco today. We found just the right thing with this performance of "Airline to Heaven" at Farm Aid 2005, held in whatever corporate sponsor has naming rights to the outdoor music shed in Tinley Park back then. Bonus: they're introduced to the stage by none other than Senator Barack Obama, trying to fit in with his dad khakis. more ›

The news that Wilco is launching its own record label on top of everything else they've been slapping their name on lately (not to mention Jeff Tweedy's mayoral endorsement) smacks a lot of a branding strategy. We got together over the virtual water cooler and came up with some other products Wilco could possibly endorse. Check it out. more ›

Beer, baseball teams, festivals, sandwiches, coffee: The gents in Wilco have displayed a surprising strong business acumen throughout their long career. (Or at least a willingness to grant their blessing to weird stuff named after them). For their latest venture, though, they're involvement is much more direct. According to the Los Angeles Times, Wilco's forming their own record label, dBpm Records. more ›

Rahm Emanuel's list of big-whig backers, like R&B pop-star Jennifer Hudson, Bill Clinton and the president himself, Barack Obama, just got even longer today. The Huffington Post just announced that Wilco's main man, Chicago music-mainstay, Jeff Tweedy has joined the ranks to help get Emanuel raise funds for his mayoral campaign. Tweedy has often been known to support the political candidates and causes he believes in, having done concerts for Chicago Public Schools, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and of course, the big cheese, Barack Obama. more ›

Just in time for lazy gift-givers across Chicago, Wilco is launching its own brand of Intelligentsia coffee. (You can pre-order the "Coffee Lovers Bundle" here.) As the AV Club points out, this is just the latest in a recent trend of Wilco transcending itself as a critically acclaimed alt-country band, into a powerful marketing brand that trades in comestibles. Unfortunately, if you stop for gas on the Eastern seaboard (and Chicagoist hears they serve coffee there, as well), Jeff Tweedy won't see a single penny of your purchase at a Wilco Travel Center. (They're privately held, so it's not even in his 401(k).) more ›

Really, the title of the post says it all. more ›

While we've been digging the amazing cover done by JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, the souped-up soul version of WIlco's "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart", we're even more excited by the fresh material the Chicago soul group has coming down the pike. more ›

A few months back John Ciba, founder of local record label The Rabbit Factory, one-half of the East of Edens Soul Express DJ team and record crate digger extraordinaire, sent me a vinyl 7" single from local soul revivalists JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, coincidentally signed to his label. more ›

As music fans know, the brothers Kinsella are plenty busy these days. Earlier this year, Joan of Arc, the Chicago-based eclectic collective the brothers founded, released Don’t Mind Control, a compilation of/introduction to many Kinsella-affiliated music acts. Then, there’s also the matter of their influential proto-emo group Cap'n Jazz currently making the reunion circuits to much acclaim. But, just before Cap'n Jazz makes their final victory lap, one Kinsella brother, specifically Mike, is set to release a tiny morsel of new music. According to indie label Polyvinyl Records, Owen, Kinsella’s folk-tinged project, will release a new 7-inch, Abandoned Bridges, on Sept. 28th. more ›

Chances are you know who John Stirrat and Pat Sansone are. You've seen them around - be it sipping a drink at Danny's or performing on Saturday Night Live with their "side project" Wilco. But these two local legends were making music together far before the world tours, Grammy awards and network television producers came calling, in a tidy, throwback-inspired duo called The Autumn Defense. more ›