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Wilco Jams with Mavis Staples and Nick Lowe

“Tweeeday,” as veteran soul singer Mavis Staples calls him, has been on a roll the past few months. The Wilco lead singer has gone viral recently from announcing the weather on local Chicago television station WGN-TV and covering The Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” and “My Humps” at Dan Sinker’s book release party. Today, though, Wilco tweeted a slightly more serious, albeit still outrageously awesome video. Before a show at the Civic Opera House in Chicago last month, Staples and singer-songwriter Nick Lowe joined the guys for a rousing rendition of The Band’s hit “The Weight.” Time for a...  read more

Watch Jeff Tweedy Forecast the Weather

Wilco recently visited their hometown news station WGN-TV in Chicago. The band performed “Dawned on Me” and “Whole Love” off of their eighth and latest album, this past September’s The Whole Love. The studio appearance would have been awesome enough by itself, but frontman Jeff Tweedy took it up a notch by stumbling out to give a hilariously deadpan and to-the-point weather forecast as “Supplemental Hair” to the Mr. Clean-esque regular forecaster, Paul Konrad. Check it out on WGN-TV’s website....  read more

Watch Jeff Tweedy Cover The Black Eyed Peas

Update: Now you can also watch Tweedy recite “My Humps.” Check out the video below. It’s not something you see every day: one of America’s best living songwriters covers a song that you hope to dodge in grocery stores or fast food joints. In a video posted by Time Out Chicago, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco covers the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling,” and he approaches it with the enthusiasm and comfort level of someone passing a kidney stone. The tongue-in-cheek version is hysterical, especially with Tweedy prodding the audience to participate with lines like, “’Tonight’s the night.’ You don’t...  read more

Watch Jeff Tweedy Perform a New Wilco Song

In preparation for their forthcoming eighth album The Whole Love, alt-country-rock band Wilco hasn't been too secretive with the process. Already they've offered up lead single "I Might" and its B-side, a cover of Nick Lowe's "I Love My Label." More recently, they also released a behind-the-scenes video where they debuted "Art of Almost," and have torn through live renditions of "Born Alone" and "Dawned on Me" in recent concerts.  read more

Deerhoof Release Single with Jeff Tweedy and Sons

If you haven’t been keeping up with the experimental rockers of Deerhoof, their latest project has them enlisting various artists to sing over instrumental versions of songs from their last LP, Deerhoof vs. Evil. Past collaborations have included Busdriver and Xiu Xiu, but this latest entry features some quality father-son bonding....  read more

Watch Jeff Tweedy Perform A New Song

If early news and rumors are any indication, 2011 is going to be a great year for Wilco fans. The veteran Chicago rockers have already launched their own record label, announced the return of their self-curated music festival and have strongly hinted at releasing their eighth LP later this year. Now, we may have a preview of a brand new Wilco track that may be included on their forthcoming yet-to-be-titled record....  read more

Wilco Announces May Tour Dates, Tweedy Solo Tour in March

This morning, Wilco announced a week’s worth of tour dates for the first part of May. The trek kicks off in Montgomery, Ala. on May 2 and continue across the South, making stops in New Orleans (for the Jazz & Heritage Festival) and Houston, finishing up in Tulsa, Okla. on May 8....  read more

Wilco Launches dBpm Records

Wilco's masterpiece Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was surrounded in record-label controversy. But that kind of record-label hopping should be a thing of the past now that the band has formed dBpm Records, which will "release all future Wilco recordings and more."  read more

Watch Yo La Tengo Cover Lou Reed and Jonathan Richman With Nels Cline and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

For the sixth night of Yo La Tengo’s Hanukkah stay in Hoboken, N.J., the gang invited Mission of Burma and Bob Weston to join them for the fifth night. For the seventh night during the festival of lights, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nels Cline and the Cairo Gang hopped on the bill....  read more

Watch Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy on The Colbert Report

Watch the duo perform "You Are Not Alone"...  read more