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A few thoughts... Firstly: Shout out to the Wilco HQ team on switching the tees to Comfort Colors. I've bought a bunch of these shirts this year from other bands and they fit and feel so much better than those Canvas shirts. I'm 6'3" and bigger (purely muscles, I assure you) and usually comfortably wear a 2XL but a lot of my Wilco shirts (the ones with the Canvas tag at least), even at 3X, fit poorly. The Comfort Colors are great at 2XL, and also don't feel thin and cheap. Secondly, in this day and age a 9LP boxset for $215 USD is a pretty reasonable set (plus 4 CDs, a book, etc

It's up for pre-order on the Nonesuch store: https://store.nonesuch.com/en/nonesuch/a-ghost-is-born-deluxe-edition-9lp-4cd-mp3-bundle/075597897159.html I would hold off on ordering as the Wilco Store usually has an exclusive variant.

My crystal ball, of course!! Ok, actually, a friend from Europe mentioned that most of AGIB was missing from Spotify. Assuming it was a mistake, I suggested emailing Wilco HQ about it and they got a response that Nonesuch still owns that record and they pulled it to prep for a reissue getting announced "next week". Now, thanks to u2roolz's sleuthing, I'm assuming either the announcement got moved up a week to tomorrow (Wednesday) or perhaps that response was from the weekend making "next week" actually "this week" and my half dozens of minutes getting the AGIB egg in a crystal ball

My prediction is a reissue will get announced next week.

They've already said there won't be an opener. "An evening with" usually (always?) indicates that the band is the only music performance. I don't think it necessarily means the set will therefor be longer. But I suppose it's a possibility. Anyways, I got tickets for all 3 nights in St Paul, see you folks there.

Did anyone here grab Archives Volume 3? I was planning on streaming it via Neil's site all weekend but it appears they're not allowing streaming even to paid subs. And of course there's no way to buy the thing digitally. I'm curious to hear any impressions!

Just wanted to pop in and say I like the EP a lot. Livid is a ton of fun and I agree it could have been longer. While I have no issues with Jeff's voice these days, I've been saying this for awhile, and this EP only convinces me more, that Wilco should do an instrumental album. Or at least an album more focused on instrumentation. Jeff has a lot of outlets for his songwriting these days, which is fantastic because he's an incredibly consistent songwriter. I will always want more of his songs. But what makes this iteration of Wilco special is the way they play together... the most exciting Wilc

Oh yeah good call with the Waxahatchee and K-Mo tour dates! Personally, I would love another solo tour, it's been a few years hasn't it? At least for me, besides some one offs like festivals, I haven't seen Jeff tour solo since Warm came out.

Yeah, I would expect to maybe see some Tweedy or solo shows in the fall and then maybe some Wilco shows late in the year like they've done in St Paul and Chicago before. But who knows how the whole hip thing will effect plans.

I'll leave the full proper recap to the professional, if @bböpso chooses to make one. But...... I suppose it wouldn't hurt to share a few of anecdotes. Apologies in advance if nothing makes sense, I am running on about 3 hours of sleep!! 🫠 A high school choir came out for the encore and sang next to Glenn, behind the Autumn Defence. Jeff introduced them with the wrong name, I'm not sure if he just said the name incorrectly, or mentioned the wrong school entirely, but he quickly corrected himself and told the crowd that it was Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute Chamber Choir... a

Keep an eye on the Wilco World US store in the next few weeks, I believe RSD stuff has popped up there afterwards in limited quantities.

Good for Glenn!!

@radiatortunes sent this to me before my alarm went this morning, so after I turned it off this tweet was the first thing I saw. I admit in my still mostly asleep state of mind my initial thought was "fuck, that won't fit on my record shelf". But if they're teasing us, maybe an actual announcement is imminent?! 🫨 I know what you're trying to say BUT... view the actual book as the liner notes and the CD as a release called "The Wilco Book"!

Great recap Vince! Please bring me back a boomerang.

Fair dinkum, that's a bloody good review Paul (and Vince).

Thank you for the recap!

Glad you're-- wait hold on. Glad you're feeling better!! Hopefully Australia is full of sickness free.

The timing makes sense for a fall release. Hopefully this means we finally get the Wilco Book on vinyl.

Not bad for album releases/announcements only 6 weeks into the year. I think this is going to be a good year for music releases.

I've been doing my list in the past few years as a video for friends and family: But here it is in list form if you don't want to read! Just for you folks here's my favourite live albums of the year, in no order, featuring new and archive material: Iron & Wine - Who Can See Forever Sloan - Alive & Alright Neil Young - Odeon Budakon (I know technically it came out a few years ago but it's first time on vinyl was 2023 so I'm counting it) MJ Lenderman and the Wind - Live and Loose Alex G - Live from Union Tr

Confirmed: MJ Lenderman Sleater-Kinney J Mascis Waxahatchee Not officially confirmed but almost definitely happening: Japanese Breakfast Wet Leg Foxwarren Hopeful: Adrienne Lenker (and or Big Thief) Courtney Barnett Bright Eyes Rolling Blackouts CF Decemberists Kiwi Jr Nnamdi Mac DeMarco (with lyrics!) Perfume Genius Iron & Wine (third consecutive year listing Sam, it has to happen eventually right?)

I was not planning on going but that's a pretty compelling line up. A lot of artists with genuine AOTY contenders... Joanna Sternberg, Wednesday, Ratboys. Isbell will be a crowd pleaser for sure. Same here! What was your third?

Two decades!!

One of the finest recaps of a book tour show I’ve ever read. Thank you Vince!

Honestly, more bands need to start evolving like Pokemon.