Jeff Tweedy News

Aside from a slight hiccup with 2004's 'A Ghost Is Born,' Wilco is a band that seems to get better with each album.

At first glance, it might seem odd that Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy would choose this point in his band's career to release a self-titled album.

After 10 years and 10 straight No. 1 singles, Brad Paisley has got it down: He knows what his fans want and he gives it to them.

Consider, if you will, the image of a two-humped camel standing behind a semi-circle of six chairs.

The audience at the Son Volt show Saturday afternoon was getting poured on one moment, and the next the sun was peeking out and heating their backs.

Son Volt releases its new album Tuesday. Published Thursday July 2, 2009 Son Volt's Jay Farrar promises a concert with an electric feel If you go: Son Volt Jay Farrar helped define a musical genre.

"Wilco" is a five-letter word for the quiet slaughter of all that is elemental, passionate, and reverentially stupid about rock 'n' roll.

The opening song on "Wilco " is a bright, poppy tune called "Wilco ." It's a greeting card to the band's fans, a promissory note: When you need us, we'll be there.

Founded in 1995, the Chicago-based Wilco has become one of America's most innovative and acclaimed rock bands.

Wilco opened Wilco with "Wilco " from the band's new album, due Tuesday, "Wilco ." It set the stage for a night that would draw liberally from the alt-rock band's new album.

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco plays with his band at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, Calif.

Even in the bucolic setting of Saratoga's Mountain Winery, under beautiful California stars, Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy found something to gripe about.

An influential band has found time in its busy schedule to kick off Harveys' Summer Outdoor Concert Series at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena.

Authorities say former Wilco guitarist Jay Bennett overdosed on a pain killer, and that they're investigating his death as an accident.

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy gave fans a scare Saturday night at the recently refurbished Fox Theater in Pomona when he declared, 12 songs into the band's set, that the Chicago-based act was "approaching the end of an era," and promised more details later.

Halfway into Wilco's superb show Saturday night at the revived and renovated Fox Theater in Pomona, a tremendous two-hour-plus start to the revered Chicago band's run of four shows this week , frontman Jeff Tweedy dropped a scare bomb that instantly had the capacity crowd of intensely devoted fanatics atwitter and tweeting.

Wilco straddles extremes, striking balance between earthy, avant garde Rootsy rockers Wilco are hitting town in support of their dense and textured new disc.

Caption: Max Weinberg drummer of Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band The Classic! for Home Safe Benefit at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida .... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN helped rockers WILCO get over fears they would be booed off stage at the Bonnaroo music festival - the band convinced themselves the crowd was cheering for the ...

They were sure to be chanting "Bruuuuuce" at Bonnaroo Saturday night. Bruce Springsteen, one of the festivals two headliners along with Phish, was to take the main stage Saturday evening at the Tennessee music festival.

Talk about a nightmarish way to roll out a new album. Wilco's eighth album, and seventh studio effort, "Wilco ," was leaked on the Internet five weeks before its official June 30 release date.