Artist: Wilco
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Wilco – Overture Hall (Madison, WI)
There was a skeptical buzz before this show from doubters who dismissed the band’s upbeat new disc, Sky Blue Sky, as Jeff Tweedy on Paxil. Add in the fact that Overture Hall is a lavish new theater designed more for symphony orchestras than rock bands, and many of the ticket holders (despite the reasonable ticket [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #69 May-June 2007
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
A record of cunning redundancies, dead space and beautifully rendered details that double back upon themselves, Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky is aptly titled. On last year’s side project, Loose Fur’s Born Again In The USA, Jeff Tweedy perfected a blithe, funny, self-deprecating take on any number of skewed rock ‘n’ roll verities. That record’s “The [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Jeff Tweedy – Iowa Memorial Union Ballroom (Iowa City, IA) / Wilco – Val Air Ballroom (West Des Moines, IA)
During his sold-out solo show at the University of Iowa, Jeff Tweedy took droll delight in mocking his public persona. In the middle of a new song called “Is That The Thanks I Get?”, which he’d written for soul legend Solomon Burke (but which hadn’t made it onto the Joe Henry-produced album), Tweedy tried to [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
“I keep on singing Your eyes, they just roll It sounds like someone else’s song From a long time ago” – Jeff Tweedy, “Someone Else’s Song” It’s tempting at times to take Tweedy at his word, even knowing his penchant for obfuscation and sarcasm. Sure, he’s made a series of great-sounding, if ever more pretentious, [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
R.E.M. / Wilco – Red Rocks (Morrison, CO)
Extraordinary things happen on a regular basis at Red Rocks, and the best results often come from determined opening acts. Guy Clark, playing before Lyle Lovett in June 2002, immediately comes to mind. The most memorable flash of last year’s season, his “Dublin Blues” doubled over with twice the desolation it’s shown on other stages. [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Wilco – In through the out door
The story of what happened to Wilco in the past couple of years isn’t always a happy tale, but it does have a happy ending. So let’s start there. After countless delays, a split from their record company and the departure of two key members, Wilco finally, officially released its embattled new album, Yankee Hotel [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
Wilco – Stubb’s (Austin, TX)
When a Reprise label source was quoted in Rolling Stone as saying Wilco’s new album, Yankee Foxtrot Hotel, was “the side of the road, instead of the middle of the road,” one could imagine Jeff Tweedy thinking, “let us go and stand awhile, we wanna be alone.” Yet on this unseasonably cool and misty Texas [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Joe Henry – Fuse / Wilco – Summer Teeth
Once upon a time, in what seems now like a land far, far away, there was this magical, wonderful thing called AM Top 40 radio. True Top 40 radio, though its FM version persisted well into the ’80s, saw its last real period of dominance in the ’70s, before the rock audience was filleted, ever [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Billy Bragg – Billy Bragg and Wilco resurrect Woody Guthrie by breathing new music into his long-lost lyrics
“Well, it’s not like I’ve got the last couple of fragments. It’s not like I’ve got the last half-dozen tunes. There’s so much stuff here, I mean, I could make a record and then if that’s no good then you can make a record and probably all those people over there could make a record [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #2 Winter 1995
Son Volt – The Iron Horse (Northampton, MA) / Wilco – The Paradise (Boston, MA) / Wilco – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel (Providence, RI) / Son Volt – The Paradise (Boston, MA)
Saw a cool band back in October — four nights in a row. It was all a big blur. Let me see if I can remember …. There was Jeff Tweedy, Ken Coomer, John Stirratt, Max Johnston, Jay Bennett, Mike Heidorn, Dave and Jim Boquist, and Jay Farrar. Wow. I mean, I know they expanded [...]
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