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Wilco announces summer tour plans

By Adam Daniels on 12:45 PM on July 7, 2008

Summer has a way of feeling light, as if you can float along aimlessly as you please like a feather in the wind, or maybe a hummingbird. And there are few more pleasant soundtracks to summer than the soothing melancholies of Jeff Tweedy and Wilco.... read more

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Jeff Tweedy performing at two Chicago benefits

By Jeremy Goldmeier on 4:25 PM on November 14, 2007

The wind's blowing Jeff Tweedy back via Chicago once again. The Wilco frontman is stepping up to the plate for his adoptive home this December, playing benefits at two of the city's most venerable cultural institutions. First up on the Tweedy itinerary: a 50th anniversary benefit for Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music on Dec. 1. The school offers classes and workshops in music, art and dance to some 6,000 students each week. Among the many artists joining Tweedy at the Auditorium Theatre performance are Roger McGuinn and the Bloodshot Family Band - featuring the combined talents of Robbie... read more

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San Fran festival totes heavyweight lineup

By Mike Isaac on 2:23 PM on September 4, 2007

Ahh, autumn in San Francisco. The homeless in the Haight start bundling up. Fog brims over the Golden Gate more and more. The changing of the leaves from green to...well, less green. And if you like music (which you obviously do, since you're on Paste's site), the seventh-annual, always-free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival kicks off in full force, completely taking over the hallowed hippie grounds of NorCal's Golden Gate Park. Get your spot on the lawn betwixt the hippies, yuppies and yippies October 5-7 to see Smog's lo-fi folkie Bill Callahan, T-Bone Burnett and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, amongst many... read more

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Jeff Tweedy plays music critic for NY Times

By Kasia Galazka on 12:03 PM on July 25, 2007

Above: Battles Frank Zappa once said rock journalism is people who can’t write preparing articles for people who can’t read. Of course, we beg to differ. But besides our uber-talented, humble staff and literate readers, Mr. Tweedy could give Mr. Zappa a run for his money (rest in peace, big guy). “I’m probably the only person that wanted to be a rock critic and failed at it and started a band,” the Wilco frontman told the New York Times. Not that we take pleasure in others' misfortunes, but we’d be Summerteethless if Tweedy had kept his press hat. Since we’re... read more

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