Rusty Shackleford

Does anyone have the venue presale password for Lincoln Theatre tomorrow? I'm on the 9:30/IMP email list but didn't get anything about it.

Shut out of presale for Lincoln. But not crazy about GA seating. That was the setup last time and it was kind of a pain. The venue does some shows with assigned seating, not sure why this show isn't. It's going to sell out either way.

More re-issues on the way this summer: Sound of Lies, Smile, and Rainy Day Music. http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/blogs/251086991.html No word on what the bonus material will be, but looking forward to these.

Just picked up the New Mendicants LP. Great stuff. They just announced a few tour dates in the US as well.

Fun fact: they recorded Man-Made in Chicago, and in the liner notes they thank Wilco for the loan of a guitar. I love these guys. Agree with others above that Songs from Northern Britain and Grand Prix are their best records, but they haven't made a bad one. Rumor has it they're working on a new album and will tour again later this year.

Otis just posted another Henneman interview, so there's a total of three up now. The last one talks about how Tony Margherita got Brian a record deal, the Bottle Rockets' rapid rise to brief stardom, and what it's like to go on stage after Anthrax. All worth checking out.

Brian Henneman appeared on Otis Gibbs' podcast again this week. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/thanks-for-giving-a-damn/id568743610?mt=2 He talks about the Coffee Creek shows, meeting Bun E. Carlos, and singing the last song Uncle Tupelo ever performed.

R.E.M. Accelerate. It gave me a headache the first time through. There was no second time through. The songs sounded okay live, but the CD was just awful.

I like this method, too, and I might have the Old 97s be my number one as well, if only because the last two times I had tickets to see them (both "Too Far to Care" album shows!) I had to miss out for family reasons. They kick ass live, and most of their records are good-to-great, but they have a few forgettable ones in the catalog. That said, Wilco is my favorite band. I like all the albums (though some are better than others), and there are very few dud songs. I could say the same thing about the Beatles, but I never saw the Beatles live, and I've never experienced a "new" Beatles recor

Same here. Those better be some damn fine liner notes.

Might as well post this here. Bottle Rockets are re-releasing the first two albums, including the debut which has been out of print for about 20 years, with tons of bonus material. Tweedy and Farrar make an appearance. http://www.spin.com/articles/bottle-rockets-indianapolis-uncle-tupelo-stream-reissue-demo/ I'm pretty psyched for this, even though many of the demos have been floating around for awhile. I'd buy this just to get a legit copy of the first record and 40 pages of liner notes.

I think they read the requests but there are so many that it ends up not making a difference unless there's a real campaign. At Wolf Trap in 2009 Jeff mentioned that "How to Fight Loneliness" was a request, and they played it. Someone on here had started a campaign for it. "Thirty-six of you are going to be really happy," Jeff said before playing it.

Totally. I saw Jeff solo at the Lincoln Theatre, and he played it there, but it's just not the same with one guitar.

Funny thing. This was my third time for Wilco at Merriweather as well, and I keep requesting Muzzle of Bees to no avail.

If I'd noticed the typo I might have bought one of these just for the conversation piece value.

Terrific show by Wilco. The pace, especially the back half of the set, can only be described as blistering. 16 songs in about 75 minutes (7:40 to 8:55 or so). I thought they might end on "A Shot in the Arm," with the crowd going wild, but they dialed it way back for the closer, which was awesome. I was a bit disappointed not to see any of the covers or collaborations that have appeared at other shows (with the exception of Ryan Bingham sitting in with MMJ for one song), but Wilco really brought it last night before a packed house. Even during Bingham's set the pit was relatively full, an

Thanks for posting. I find the whole music business fascinating, but details like these are hard to come by.

They say they're moving it because of recent (and possible future) rain, which has softened the grounds. But I wonder if they've also had soft ticket sales, which seem to be the case elsewhere. IMP (the promoter for the Merriweather show) keeps hyping the upcoming show, and from what I can tell, plenty of tickets are still available. It's a strange business where the Rolling Stones can sell out (?) at $600 a seat, but Bob Dylan, Wilco, and MMJ can't do it at $90.

Maybe a stupid question, but did they play "Red Eyed and Blue," or just go straight into "I Got You"?

I can't make it to this show, but I'd like someone to benefit from my misfortune. The Old 97's will be playing "Too Far to Care" plus other stuff at the Brooklyn Bowl this Saturday. I'll drop the ticket in the mail today for the first person to PM me. Thanks.

First time I saw Wilco they opened with A Shot in the Arm. Still my favorite opener.

Maybe we already knew this, but according to the 9:30 Club's blast email this week, Wilco will play a "full set" at the Americanarama shows. I went ahead and bought a pit ticket for Merriweather, which are apparently still available on a will-call-only basis.

Didn't get to many shows this year. The one I really missed out on was the Old 97's Too Far to Care tour, which coincided with a family emergency. At least the ones I saw were all quite good. 1. Neil Young and Crazy Horse at the Patriot Center. My first time seeing Neil, and Patti Smith opened. Great shows both. 2. Bottle Rockets living room show. Awesome being up close to a great band and hearing them reinvent rock songs acoustically. It's unfortunate that they don't have a wider following, but the upside for fans is that we get to see them in these intimate settings. 3. Wilco

This was my first Wilco show, and it was awesome, from the "Shot in the Arm" opener to the curfew-beating 3rd encore. I was in the pit, and you could tell that they changed up the 2nd encore a bit to shove an extra song or two in there, so it was already a great show. Then when the crowd kept up the noise, we got an apparently spontaneous 3rd encore, which is pretty rare these days. This show is right up there with the "Evening With" and post-residency shows for me.

This could be a very good thing. I hope they release some shows that never surfaced on DIME or etree, like the 2010 show at Strathmore.