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The deluxe edition (with bonus tracks) is now out there.

Really loving those bonus tracks!

Yes! The band will be doing a Tiny Desk Session and also, Sunday's show in Maryland will be webcasted!

PM on its way.

Why Did Wilco Write a Song for Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend?

 

By Jason Boog on September 12, 2011 12:23 AM

 

 

On September 27, the indie rock band Wilco will release their complex and inspiring new album, The Whole Love. The album concludes with a song, “One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend).” We caught up with novelist Jane Smiley, confirming that the haunting song is indeed about her partner.

Smiley (pictured, via Mike Bennington) explained: “Apparently my partner was chatting to Jeff Tweedy about some religious thoughts. I don’t quite understand the song, but those who’ve heard it seem to really like it, especially the music. I do think that it is really funny that someone as square (and old) as myself would end up in the title of a song in an alt-rock group’s album.”

The 12-minute song won’t be available until September 27th, but here’s a sample of lyrics from the song: “One Sunday Morning / Oh, one son is gone. / I can see where it’s dawning / Over the sea / My father said what I had become / No one should be.”

 

I have some MP3 credit so I thought about this and now there are 7 Bonus Tracks on the Shame Shame Deluxe Digital?

The 3 you mentioned above and 4 more.

Heard these?

Yeah, they are:

Take Me into Town

Black - Red

Nobody Know Who You Are

The Sound

They're great songs, and I was lucky enough to hear them all live this past May.

Jesus Etc

How to Fight Loneliness

She's A Jar

Sunken Treasure

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Wishful Thinking

Country Disappeared

Ashes of American Flags

In a Future Age

Theologians

Has anyone deciphered the lyrics to sun loathe yet? I think I hear the line " The birds and the whales" somewhere in it. I'm wondering in what context that line could possibly be cool.

That's what I hear too... thought it was just me.

Scott McMicken (Dr. Dog) - Met him this past May... very cool guy. Thanked me for coming to the show like 10 times.

Erika Wennerstrom (Heartless Bastards) - Talked to her on a number of occasions. She is a very shy, but kind person.

Shilpa Ray - Interesting lady, but very sweet.

New record "These Days" due out in January!!

Philly’s Dr. Dog headline this weekend’s WHYY Connections Festival, and head out for a short tour in November. They’re currently working in their Kensington studio on a follow-up to 2010’s critically acclaimed Shame Shame , and this seventh album—tentatively titled These Days—is scheduled for a mid-January release on ANTI-. We caught up with bassist Toby Leaman to get a progress report.

http://www.philadelp...oby-Leaman.html

1. Mister Heavenly - Out of Love

2. Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers - Teenage and Torture

3. Man Man - Life Fantastic

4. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears- Scandalous

Waiting for:

Wilco - The Whole love

Tom Waits - Bad as Me

Dr. Dog - These Days

Heartless Bastards - TBA

Reed, Wilco, James Celebrate Woody Guthrie's 100th

http://www.spin.com/articles/reed-wilco-james-celebrate-woody-guthries-100th

Wilco’s ‘I Might’ Shows Promise For New Album

 

If you heard this new Wilco single “I Might” a few weeks back and thought it showed great promise for the upcoming record, you’re not alone. It’s a great tune. Now I have now heard the new Wilco album The Whole Love, and I can say it’s absolutely great. Totally the album I had hoped they still had in them after the last two decent, but ultimately sorta boring records. The experimental fire is back and it might be the best record of theirs since A Ghost Is Born. That’s probably all I’m allowed to say for now, but more later I’m sure. In the meantime, listen to this song again. It’s great.

Wilco Loves Its Label

 

Wilco’s new album The Whole Love is already assured to be among my favorite albums of the year, but it’s also the band’s best since A Ghost Is Born, if not Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. It’s also the first record on their new label dBpm. The band released a 7″ single this summer to celebrate, with “I Might” and a great cover of Nick Lowe’s “I Love My Label.” Check out this nice video of them recording that song in their famed “Wilco Loft.”

Over and over again!

I live just north of Philly and we felt it here.... a number of buildings were evacuated.

Here it is!!

Bad As Me is Tom Waits’ first studio album of all new music in seven years. This pivotal work refines the music that has come before and signals a new direction. Waits, in possibly the finest voice of his career, worked with a veteran team of gifted musicians and longtime co-writer/producer Kathleen Brennan. From the opening horn-fueled chug of “Chicago,” to the closing barroom chorale of “New Year’s Eve,” Bad As Me displays the full career range of Waits’ songwriting, from beautiful ballads like “Last Leaf,” to the avant cinematic soundscape of “Hell Broke Luce,” a battlefront dispatch. On tracks like “Talking at the Same Time,” Waits shows off a supple falsetto, while on blues burners like “Raised Right Men” and the gospel tinged “Satisfied” he spits, stutters and howls. Like a good boxer, these songs are lean and mean, with strong hooks and tight running times. A pervasive sense of players delighting in each other’s musical company brings a feeling of loose joy even to the album’s saddest songs.

Pre-order Bad As Me at the Tom Waits Store.

Get the "Bad As Me" MP3 at your favorite digital retailer.

View the "Bad As Me" lyrics here.

Bad As Me Tracklisting

01. Chicago

02. Raised Right Men

03. Talking At The Same Time

04. Get Lost

05. Face To The Highway

06. Pay Me

07. Back In The Crowd

08. Bad As Me

09. Kiss Me

10. Satisfied

11. Last Leaf

12. Hell Broke Luce

13. New Year's Eve

http://www.tomwaits.com/news/

Itunes screen grab!

Love, Love, LOVE this song! I cannot wait until tomorrow!

Here is a 30 sec clip of the new song!

http://www.musicme.com/#/Tom-Waits/albums/Bad-As-Me-%28Single%29-0045778715107.html

From ANTI Records:

Tom Waits Sets the Rumors Straight

Tuesday August 16, 2011

There have been rumblings and rumors. New music, you say? Come to TomWaits.com on Tuesday August 23rd, and Mr. Waits himself will set the record straight.

Wow....that's next week. That is a really strange cover from Tom.

Yeah, but it's only the cover art for the single.

Tom Waits single "Bad As Me" available August 23rd!!!

http://www.amazon.co...13413212&sr=8-1

1. I first heard Wilco in 2000, when "How to Fight Loneliness" was played in the Winona Ryder film, "Girl, Interrupted." My sister and I argued over who was going to buy Summerteeth... she wound up beating me to it. Soon after though, she lost interest and I took over.

2. My first Wilco show wasn't until 2004, when I saw them in Norfolk, Virginia. http://wilcobase.com...p?event_key=784

I almost never listen all the way through, and even though it's a lot shorter than the studio version, I've always found the live versions to sound much more interesting. I was lucky enough to hear it live at my first Wilco show in 2004 and was blown away by the drone.