Brian F.

I really love that album. My only problem with it is that I got my copy of it on March 18, 2020, and listened to it every day thereafter for months, so it still kind of feels like the soundtrack of the world falling apart.

I can think of at least one: Pearl Jam. They released an album in March 2020 and, when they finally got to play a few festival shows in support of it in the fall of 2021, they came out and rattled off six of the first eight songs in the set from that album. On the first show of their proper tour in the spring of 2022, they played eight songs from that album. I don't know if there's any band of '90s vintage that goes as deep as Pearl Jam in their live show in terms of new songs and catalog songs. On their recent eight-show tour, they played over 100 different songs (and this is in spite of the

Not for the first time, Wilcoworld has the set list all wrong.

Is it true that records rotate in the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere? And, if so, do they all just ending up repeating "Paul is dead"?

That's a great recommendation. True story: in my post above, where I wrote "somewhere around town," I first wrote "at the Negro Leagues Museum" but was afraid people might think I was poking fun at the museum. I then considered writing "at the Jazz Museum" and "at the Truman Library" before deciding that specificity was unnecessary. I also strongly recommend the Truman Library as well as the Truman Residence in Independence. I actually didn't get to go to the Jazz Museum because I spent too much time at the Negro Leagues Museum. (They are in the same building.)

See now if it was a real soap opera, Taylor and Travis would have definitely run into Matty Healy of the 1975 somewhere around town and there would have been drama.

If you're looking for a ticket, you could either hang out by the venue asking around for someone whose Plus-One bailed on them, or you could go to the box-office window to see if any tickets get released day of show. That often happens.

They did the "Many Worlds" coda at one the Ace Theatre shows in L.A. They might have done it in Albuquerque, too, but I'm not sure about that one since I wasn't there.

"Evicted" slips a notch on the latest Triple-A chart in its tenth week, from its heretofore peak of No. 3 to No. 4. On the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, the song rebounds from No. 47 to a new peak of No. 42 in its fifth week. Ironically, because there are many more rock and alternative radio stations than Triple-A stations, being No. 42 at rock and alternative radio likely translates into more spins and a larger audience than being No. 4 at Triple-A radio.

I kind of hope you're right about "A Bowl and a Pudding" on the theory that, if I can't have it, no one can. Some may consider that selfish. They would not be wrong. Is there any possibility that Jeff actually referred to Marc Antony? (I've heard recently that men think a lot about the Roman Empire.) Or maybe he was talking about Latin superstar Marc Anthony? Tell me, baby girl, because I need to know...

I can't imagine they're able to sleep very well on the bus-- Jeff's hips, Nels' height-- so it still seems like a lot to me.

FYI: This show will be streamed. https://www.nugs.net/live-download-of-wilco-metro-chicago-il-10-30-2023-mp3-flac-or-online-music-streaming/34697-WEBCAST.html

Wow, that is so cool. That Johnny has the voice of an angel. So they went and did this after the show and still made it up to Berkeley the next night? Does anyone know how they are traveling? They must have flown from SoCal to NorCal on Saturday morning on no sleep. They apparently did the same thing the week before, where they played Sunday night in Monterey and then were at Kimmel in L.A. by 2 p.m. on Monday.

That is Mikael's handwriting. Are you are a graphologist? The full story is that Donna wasn't able to make it out to L.A. for the signing and asked if I might be able to get a CD signed for her. Mikael was the first person seated at the table. I said, "Hi, Mikael!" He smiled and said hello, displaying no special enthusiasm for me. But when I told him that the CD was actually for Donna a.k.a. Kidsmoke, he lit up and exclaimed, "Donna!" And then he wrote exactly that on the CD.

For those who, like me until five minutes ago, were not aware of this: https://pitchfork.com/news/wilcos-jeff-tweedy-covers-bill-fays-filled-with-wonder-once-again-listen/

That is beautiful. Whoever got that CD signed for you is a real mensch... (By the way, anyone who thinks that's an LP is wondering where you found such giant tomatoes.)

It's an abstract still life.

As is typical in a rock album's second week of release, Cousin drops from No. 5 to No. 51 on Top Album Sales this week. The album also drops all the way off the Billboard 200 after spending a single week at No. 65. "Evicted," on the other hand, makes a big jump on the Triple-A chart from No. 8 to No. 3 (behind the Black Pumas' "More Than a Love Song" and the Revivalists' "Good Old Days"). "Evicted" holds at No. 47 on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart.

Congrats on the century mark! At my pace of 52 shows in 28 years, I won't catch you until 2051, at which point you will have been to over 200 and Jeff will be 84 years old.

First of all, that "c'est la vie"/"Levee" pun is world-class. Bravo. Does it make Northern Californians feel any better to know that one show at an 8,500-capacity venue means that more of them got to see the band than the number of Angelenos that did, when you add up the capacities of the five smaller shows in L.A. and consider how many people attended multiple shows? That thing is called a "marching machine"? We were wondering about that at the Bellwether the other night when Glenn busted it out. It looked like someone had taped a bunch of wooden cylinders inside a lar

FYI-- the set list on Wilcoworld incorrectly lists "I Got You (At the End of the Century)" as the final song played. Someone changed the setlist.fm page citing Wilcoworld, but I have changed it back. They definitely played "Outtasite (Outta Mind)" coming right out of "Monday," as they often do. If anyone knows someone at Wilcoworld, tell them to fix their set list.

Thanks for the clarification about the disruption, bbop. I was only about ten feet to your right but couldn't make out a lot of what they were saying. I thought the "Hell Is Chrome" woman said something about it being the first song her father played for her or something to that effect, which made me feel very old. But I didn't even hear that it was "Hell Is Chrome" that she was requesting so I have no confidence that I heard the part about her father correctly. The observation about the cease-and-desist on the cell-phone videos is interesting because I noticed in Santa Barbara las

Infinite Surprise Levee Handshake Drugs I Am My Mother Cruel Country I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Kamera Meant to Be Side with the Seeds Pittsburgh Bird without a Tail/Base of My Skull Cousin Hummingbird Via Chicago (no coda) Evicted Impossible Germany Jesus, etc. Theologians I'm the Man Who Loves You ------------------------------------------------------- Falling Apart (Right Now) California Stars Monday Outtasite (Outta Mind) ("A Shot in the Arm" was listed as th

Short update: It was corrected, and all was right with the world. Thanks be to Bob. Longer update later.