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    Glenn's new song: "Anomaly Mvt 2"

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    Wilco drummer and composer Glenn Kotche keeps finding new possibilities in his drum kit, a changeable, slippery landscape teeming with small odd creatures and changeable terrain in his hands. For Anomaly, he gazed hard enough to discover a string quartet living inside of it; after failing, utterly, to write a quartet for the usual voices, he looked at his limbs, counted to four, and set about making the imaginative leap. From there, he transposed the parts back to the original instruments.  Just proves the old adage: Drummers think in drums.

    This movement (the second of seven) hints at the fleet, coursing energy this technique uncorks. Kotche drums lightly behind the strings, the plucking and bowing getting tangled somewhere in the higher drumming's timbre until the line between bowing, beating, plucking, and thumping is all but erased. All that remains is a humming hive of texture. It might remind you of Matmos at their most genial, and it provides a brief, exhilarating glimpse into Kotche's upcoming Adventureland, his first solo album in eight years.

    http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16589-anomaly-mvt-2/

    A Wilco Related Live Show

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    Yesterday I bought tickets for On Fillmore in Sao Paulo \o/

    They have a few dates in Brazil:

    Dec 5: On Fillmore @ Piracicaba

    Dec 6: On Fillmore @ São Paulo

    Dec 7: On Fillmore @ São Paulo

    Dec 9: On Fillmore @ Rio de Janeiro

     

    At least one sixth of the band is coming to Brazil  :dance

    How Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Learned To Grow Up And Start Firing His Friends

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    That's what fascinates me about "band as brand": it's too complicated to turn music into a business, because it's an art.

    I studied advertising in college and I love music so I always think about the union of these two things and about the limits of both. We can think of marketing for a band in the same way we think about marketing for a product but there are some points that make music marketing a little more delicate (perhaps the relationship of music consumers is more passionate than the relationship of consumers and a product).

    I always think about that analyzing my relationship with Wilco: how I love the music and the people involved in a way that makes me want to sit and talk with them and made me travel so far to see their festival (and I felt so happy there like a kid at Walt Disney World). I always find myself thinking: "What causes me this? Only the music?"

    I don't like to see a band that I love as a company, but I like to know that they are aware of the market and knows how to handle it. It's good to see they care about the business the same way that maintains the commitment with music without selling out... and I think it's even harder when it's a band which doesn't play to a big audience but have to maintain a big structure on the road! We can't be hippies and think that the band is supported only with music and love (I wish!)... it's their job and they are people like me who have to work to pay the bills and support the family. So I try to relate the way they do it with the way I lead my life or something like that. It really isn't easy being an adult. :/

    Dave Grohl about IATTBYH

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    "(...) Now you get some sort of context, so you’re hearing the music in a different way. A great example of what I am talking about is your Wilco movie. I never knew anything about Wilco, and after seeing it, and seeing what they went through to make that record, then hearing the album knowing everything that they went through just so that you could fucking have it, I appreciate it more."

     

    Interview by Sam Jones >> http://offcamera.com/dave-grohl/

     

    Solid Sound 2013

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    I didn't think Jon Hodgman was bad... I think it was pretty bad they have announced that those who found the golden ticket could request a song in this show and changed it, calling people on stage who weren't the winners. Maybe would be more interesting if they used Jon Hodgman to make a joke with the winners and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

    I'm in love with North Adams

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    During the midnight snack/post-show dinner on Saturday we sat across from a woman who also recently moved to NA, originally from New York, and runs an independent cinema in Williamstown. 

     
    Her name is Sandra? I stayed at her house!
    I went to North Adams with my husband and a couple of friends and we all love the city, the museum and the festival!
    My husband is not a big fan of Wilco and was the first to say "we should come back next year" :) 
    North Adams is adorable, the houses look like big doll houses! And the people are really nice! For me it was interesting to compare an american small town with the small town where I grew up in Bahia/Brazil.

    Solid Sound 2013

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    Lofty Ambitions Jeff Tweedy oversees a festival that fits his band’s artistic breadth—and includes an all-request night. PAUL ROBICHEAU
     

    Jeff Tweedy doesn’t like music festivals. “I often say, sort of semi-jokingly, that I wouldn’t go to any festival unless I was getting paid, because it’s just not in my nature,” the leader of Wilco says, citing discomfort with crowd sizes as well as the distance between stages at the major festivals that his band plays. “Most of the time, it’s an in-and-out proposition, trying to minimize the misery.”

     

    Solid Sound—a Wilco-curated festival in its third year at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art’s factory complex in the Berkshires—provides the exception. “If you go to a restaurant with a small menu and you can hone in on what you want, you always end up being a lot more satisfied, and that’s the way I look at Solid Sound,” Tweedy says. “It’s a lot more manageable, and it’s a festival that I think I would enjoy going to.”

     

    For starters, the June 21–23 fest offers what he calls its strongest lineup of “bands we love.” In addition to two nights headlined outdoors by Wilco, this year’s Solid Sound includes Neko Case, Yo La Tengo, Foxygen, Low, the Dream Syndicate, Medeski Martin & Wood and Border Music, a guitar duo of Marc Ribot and Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo. “Hopefully, we’ll have a lot of interaction,” says Tweedy, whose band also returns to the area in a supporting role on July 20, joining My Morning Jacket on a Bob Dylan bill at the Comcast Center.

     

    The family-friendly Solid Sound lets Wilco stretch into side projects and installations as well. Bassist John Stirratt and guitarist/keyboardist Pat Sansone feature their band, the Autumn Defense. Mikael Jorgensen dips into synthesizer jams, while Nels Cline joins jazz upstart Julian Lage in another guitar duo. Drummer Glenn Kotche presents “Earth Drums,” a hands-on percussion exhibit throughout the MASS MoCA campus. And Tweedy has created a simulated audio-visual view of the Loft, his group’s Chicago studio space.

     

    Tweedy has long viewed Wilco fans as collaborators. “If they’re demonstrative and feeding the band a certain amount of energy, that’s a real collaboration,” the singer/songwriter/producer says. “There’s a real exchange there, of ideas or at least spirit and energy.”

     

    Along those lines, one of the festival’s most intriguing events will be Wilco’s first all-request show on opening night. The band solicited suggestions through online votes through June 4. “There are a lot of serious requests that people have put thought into,” Tweedy reports, mentioning the Modern Lovers classic “Roadrunner” (currently in the running to be designated the Massachusetts state rock song) and the sinewy Television opus “Marquee Moon.” Tweedy once took lessons from Richard Lloyd, half of Television’s guitar tandem, and secured his Tom Verlaine-comparable foil when Cline joined Wilco.

     

    Encore requests will be drawn more spontaneously through Twitter and a round of “Stump the Band,” where comedian John Hodgman will play the Johnny Carson role, soliciting fan requests live. “There isn’t a lot of rock music that we aren’t machined to at least attempt,” Tweedy says. “We have a lot of faith in our audience and in ourselves.”

     

    Wilco showcased its range on 2011’s exceptional The Whole Love. Opener “Art of Almost” shifts from electronic bleeps and breakbeats to a thrashing coda where Cline goes wild, serving sharp contrast to the band’s Beatles-esque pop leanings and alt-country roots. “For me, the freedom of rock music was to just be able to grab whatever you f***ing wanted, from wherever you wanted,” says Tweedy, 45. “As I’ve gotten older, and Wilco’s been around longer, that’s the only way that it stays interesting.”

     

    Despite Wilco’s well-documented upheavals in membership, the current sextet has remained intact for about half of the band’s 19-year journey. “That was more of the goal than having the revolving lineup,” he says. “My idea of a band is still and always will be the Monkees. I expected to live with people that I made music with, to slide down the fire pole and play a song for the visiting ambassador of Egypt.”

    Wilco plays the Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA on June 21–23.

     

    http://www.improper.com/going-out/lofty-ambitions/

    Solid Sound 2013

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    Congratulations! How lucky! 

     

    If it works for Wilco, my request is going to be Pieholden Suite. It is the only great song (besides Sunloathe which I expect we're going to hear at SS) I have yet to hear Wilco play after 50 shows...

     

    Now I'm even more excited for this show! It's one of my favorite songs! :hyper
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