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 ›

I got a group email yesterday from a music geek friend who needed to get something off his chest: He was afraid of the new Wilco album. Afraid of another collection of "New York-y art crap" from one of his favorite bands, devoid of all the angsty alt-country stomp 'n' roll that spoke to him 15 years ago. more ›