Wilco @ Lincoln Hall: Setlist and Recap
Wilco’s Chicago finale featured b-sides and rarities a plenty.
Wilco’s Chicago finale featured b-sides and rarities a plenty.
Ewan Currie is a very down-to-earth young man. Even though his band made the cover of Rolling Stone as winners of a recent contest, he appears to be unfazed by all of the hullabaloo. He is soft-spoken, witty and devoted to the band he has called home since 2005: The Sheepdogs, a Canadian rock and roll band with deep 70’s southern roots.
It’s not quite accurate to call Frankie Miller the unsung hero of British rock n’ soul because he had more than just a taste of mainstream recognition, while the crafts-manlike songwriter in him garnered comparable commercial success via movies and television. Yet the emotional undercurrent in the music included in …That’s Who! makes the case he was worthy of more widespread acknowledgement than the compilation’s title wryly references.
The founding members of The Beach Boys will reunite for a global 50th Anniversary CELEBRATION in 2012. Beach Boys Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks
Glide Magazine had the pleasure of speaking with Amy Ray about the writing and recording of the newest album, as well as her feelings about the role of activism in their work, her relationship with Emily Saliers as songwriters, what it’s like to balance her Indigo Girls and solo work and why she doesn’t play “Blood and Fire” anymore.
Trey Anastasio sat in for five songs with The National on Friday night.
Wilco’s “Incredible Shrinking Tour” of Chicago moved to The Metro.
Brian Bavosa puts together a mix of pressure-themed tunes.
Photos from the “Phil Lesh Night” of Chris Robinson Brotherhood’s GAMH run.
Esperanza Spalding on ACL, Gary Clark Jr. on Letterman and more music on television this weekend.