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    Art-pop album

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    8 hours ago, AndyT said:

    According to the Uncut article an art-pop album is in the works! It was started just before COVID hit However Cruel  Country took precedence in Jan/Feb 2022

     

    Did it mention the Loose Fur album that has been in the can since the late 2000's? :P

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    Solid Sound May 27-29 2022

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    2 hours ago, summerdai said:

     

    They are booked for festivals in Europe late June this year. This would not have been the case had it taken place in 2021, I would expect them to return to the normal weekend. Whether next one will be 2023 or 2024 remains to be seen. 

     

    Solid Sounds/MASSMoCA socials said 2024

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    Wilco - Cruel Country - New Album

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    https://www.jambase.com/article/wilco-new-album-cruel-country-single

     

    from the ashes alert, but more context from Jeff/band on the release.

     

    “there have been elements of Country music in everything we’ve ever done,” frontman and guitarist Jeff Tweedy said. “We’ve never been particularly comfortable with accepting that definition, the idea that I was making Country music. But now, having been around the block a few times, we’re finding it exhilarating to free ourselves within the form, and embrace the simple limitation of calling the music we’re making Country.”

     

    Tweedy also commented on the live approach to recording. “It’s a style of recording that forces a band to surrender control and learn to trust each other, along with each others’ imperfections, musical and otherwise,” he said. “But when it’s working the way it’s supposed to, it feels like gathering around some wild collective instrument, one that requires six sets of hands to play.”

    The title Cruel Country works on so many levels and the album as a whole serves as “a loose conceptual narrative on the history of the United States,” press materials for the LP noted. “It isn’t always direct and easy to spot, but there are flashes of clarity,” Tweedy continued. “It’s all mixed up and mixed in, the way my personal feelings about America are often woven with all of our deep collective myths. Simply put, people come and problems emerge. Worlds collide. It’s beautiful. And cruel. The specifics of an American identity begin to blur for me as the record moves toward the light and opens itself up to more cosmic solutions—coping with fear, without belonging to any nation or group other than humanity itself.”

     

    For Jeff, country music is a good vehicle for him to navigate the problems facing the country, as he explained:

    More than any other genre, Country music, to me, a white kid from middle-class middle America, has always been the ideal place to comment on what most troubles my mind—which for more than a little while now has been the country where I was born, these United States. And because it is the country I love, and because it’s Country music that I love, I feel a responsibility to investigate their mirrored problematic natures. I believe it’s important to challenge our affections for things that are flawed.

    Country music is simply designed to aim squarely at the low-hanging fruit of the truth. If someone can sing it, and it’s given a voice… well, then it becomes very hard not to see. We’re looking at it. It’s a cruel country, and it’s also beautiful. Love it or leave it. Or if you can’t love it, maybe you’ve already left.

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    YHF Anniversary Shows

    in Just A Fan

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    Any word on what's on the new 7inch? I assume the alt take of ITMWLY that is in the Foxtrot X Wilco popup promo picture, but what's on the flippity flop?

     

    edit: Wilco posted a pic on instagram. Alt take of War on War.

    Live! Tonight!!

    in Someone Else's Song

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    1 hour ago, Chez said:

    Was supposed to go with the family to see Ratboys at Thalia Hall.  They cancelled.  Kind of relieved, but was looking forward to it. 

     

    Same. Well, was supposed to go until I had to isolate myself. Glad they rescheduled to a date I can attend.

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    Live Is The King

    in Just A Fan

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    22 hours ago, Chez said:

    I seem to recall that Jeff did the same thing when he released "Warmer."  You had to purchase "Warm" and "Warmer" together which was mildly aggravating for those who already owned "Warm."

     

    True with the slight exception of those that were able to score a copy of Warmer on Record Store Day where it was a stand alone.

     

    It's hard not to see the manner of releases like this as a way to boost sales.

    Wilco — 22 October 2021, Las Vegas, NV (Brooklyn Bowl)

    in After The Show

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    This show really had no business being good but just landed so solidly. Very small and new bowling alley clearly not ready to host serious artists judging by the blown taps by the time Jesus Etc rolled around. 
     

    We can’t complain about this setlist. They are changing up to a significant degree, they played deep YHF & Ghost cuts and I actually thought they weren’t going to play IATTBYH, HMD or I’m the Man which would have been nuts (and appreciated) but the latter two were welcome in the encore. 
     

    loved the comments about Wilco in Vegas: ‘The Hit’ especially since our hero and rail riding friend partook in the Rod show the evening prior.  


    and, everybody, listen: Vince is right. BBN absolutely slayed. I was hoping for a NovaCat but it was all good. 
     

    other random observations- 1. Mikael was just so solid on Wishful Thinking. Not sure I’ve ever heard him that far up in the mix?? 2. Wilco’s merch table is really pathetic. What’s up with that? I go to shows at 100 person venues and the headliners have stronger offerings. 3. I love it when pat gets his due. Fun to watch him count off Born Alone and take his role on for BFoL. 4. How can you not play Casino Queen in Las Vegas?????
     

     

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