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Wilco: “Misunderstood” Live (Time-Lapse Video)
Revisiting “Misunderstood” — a tune that never fails to make a Wilco show feel special — would be a welcome treat regardless, but throw some time-lapse photography depicting a trip to one hometown gig into the mix and I’m completely on board. Richie Wireman shot a host of images revolving around the band’s Civic Opera House concert in Chicago last December, shown here with a soundboard recording of said live favorite as the soundtrack. Watch/hear Wilco perform “back in [their] old neighborhood” above.
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Wilco: “Dawned On Me” (Official Video)
It’s been three decades since the last appearance of Popeye in a hand-drawn form, but today the iconic spinach-loving Sailor Man returns along with Olive Oyl, Swee’Pea, Wimpy, Bluto, and… Wilco. Watch above as director Darren Romanelli and King Features bring the classic cartoon back to life, just in time for Jeff Tweedy to settle Bluto and Popeye’s near-century-long rivalry for the love of Olive Oyl, once and for all.
Video: Wilco Play Tiny Desk Concert
We’ve seen Wilco perform a full set live in amphitheater-ready rock mode on late-night television, but here they are in the intimate setting of a bookstore, stripping down three cuts from The Whole Love — “Dawned On Me,” “Born Alone,” and the title track — before closing with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’s “War On War.” Watch Jeff Tweedy sing sans vocal microphone, Nels Cline shred unplugged on a resonator guitar, and Glenn Kotche take NPR’s “Tiny Desk” concept literally with a tiny percussion setup on a desk alongside a tape dispenser, telephones, and other essential office utensils above.
By Casey Newton
Wilco’s 8th record, The Whole Love, came out in September, and was greeted with hosannahs by rock critics yearning for a return to form. “Powerful, mind-reeling stuff, if you have the heart for it,” said Rolling Stone. “Wilco’s most sonically adventurous work since 2004’s A Ghost Is Born,” offered Entertainment Weekly. Pitchfork, in the most enthusiastic 6.9 review you’ll read, said The Whole Love “recaptured some of that old unpredictability”: “From Being There through A Ghost Is Born, the band’s best work has always perched itself upon the edge of traditionalism and experimentation, and The Whole Love is the first of their albums in years not to shy away from such risks.”
To make their case, reviewers fixated on the record’s little sonic oddities, which Wilco festooned upon its new songs like so many rhinestones on a belt buckle.
Video: Wilco Play Hour-Long Letterman Set
Jeff Tweedy and co. unveiled cuts off their forthcoming eighth LP, The Whole Love, along with a handful of older YHF, Sky Blue Sky, A Ghost Is Born, and Summerteeth favorites last night at Letterman’s Late Show studio in the Ed Sullivan Theater. In case you missed the 63-minute webcast (or just need a reminder that Wilco remain one of the best live bands around), the full set can be revisited above. While the band returned later in the evening for an on-air version of new single “Born Alone,” the version midway through the concert slays a bit harder.
Jeff Tweedy Covers Black Eyed Peas
“This has been very challenging: I really overestimated myself or underestimated the Black Eyed Peas,” Jeff Tweedy joked tonight at the Hideout in Chicago before hilarious off-the-cuff (and borderline musically masochistic) covers of “I Gotta Feeling,” “Rock That Body,” and “My Humps.” Thankfully, the Wilco frontman injected plenty of his trademark stage banter, keeping the whole experiment worthwhile to will.i.am detractors and fans of his spoken word take on “Single Ladies” alike.
“It’s… really not my skill set,” he concedes in the video above (h/t Red Thought). “But I’ll give it a shot if you guys don’t expect it to be good. Right off the bat, I’m just telling you, it’s gonna be bad. It’s going to be really bad.” Coming from the guy in front of this cut and this cut off that new record debuted over the weekend, I’d give it a shot regardless. *Update: We now have Tweedy’s “My Humps” recitation and Wilco’s new video for “Born Alone” (all 3 clips after the jump).
Videos: Wilco - “I Love My Label” / Jeff Tweedy - “Dawned On Me”
While we’ve only heard one studio take from Wilco’s forthcoming eighth LP, The Whole Love, the band haven’t been shy about revealing solo acoustic previews or sharing session footage from their Chicago recording space, aka the Loft, ahead of the album’s September 27 release. Last week, they offered a glimpse at the tracking of opening cut “Art of Almost,” and now comes video of the boys putting “I Might” B-side “I Love My Label” to tape, complete with a steaming cup of Wilco (The Coffee) cross-promotion. Check out the Nick Lowe cover above and an intimate clip of Jeff Tweedy strumming through “Dawned On Me” in a seat at St. Louis’ Peabody Opera House below.
Jeff, Sam, & Spencer Tweedy Are The Raccoonists
While we wait for the next Wilco record, The Whole Love, to arrive next month, Jeff Tweedy has a few side projects to share via a new collaborative 7” with Deerhoof dubbed Behold A Raccoon in the Darkness. On the A-side, Tweedy leads the San Francisco quartet through a new version of Deerhoof Vs. Evil cut “Behold a Marvel in the Darkness.” In more surprising news, Tweedy has teamed up with sons Spencer and Sam to form a new experimental trio: the Raccoonists. More songs are said to be on the way (so keep an eye on their new Tumblr for updates), but the first preview is here in the form of garage-rock B-side “Own It.” You can purchase both singles here and check out the Raccoonists’ debut above.
Wilco Details The Whole Love
Following the debut of new material live and on vinyl over the weekend at the band’s Solid Sound Festival, Wilco announced details for their eighth studio album today. The Whole Love, a 12-track “veritable sonic stew” produced by Jeff Tweedy, Patrick Sansone, and Tom Schick, will arrive on September 27 via their new label, dBpm Records. Check out the cover art above and tracklist below.
The Whole Love
01. “Art of Almost”
02. “I Might
03. “Sunloathe”
04. “Dawned On Me”
05. “Black Moon”
06. “Born Alone”
07. “Open Mind”
08. “Capitol City
09. “Standing O”
10. “Rising Red Lung “
11. “Whole Love”
12. “One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)”
Video: Wilco – “The Whole Love” (Live)
Over the weekend, Wilco released the first single from their forthcoming LP, The Whole Love, before taking to their own Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA to debut live renditions of a few more LP8 cuts, including the title track (above), “Dawned On Me,” and the previously Tweedy-unveiled love song “Born Alone” (below, via YANP). Jeff Tweedy’s earlier description of the new album — “experimental-leaning rock” meets “cinematic-sounding country music…you know, folk music” — is sounding on point, as I’m hearing shades of their last LP mixed with a bit of Summerteeth so far.
“Dawned on Me”
“Born Alone”