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Wow, that must've been excellent! I would love to come back and spend more time and get to different parts of the country. I'm trying to branch out each time. Thanks for the tips and if you ever need/want a travel mate for Hokkaido, hit me up! Thanks also to everyone for the kind words, other tips and...uh...thoughts!

Doesn't really do it justice, but anyway...

If tonight's show was indeed the last we'll see of the Tweedy band for the foreseeable future, you just had a feeling that the sextet wouldn't simply go quietly into that good night (or mid-evening, as it were, given the lack of an opening act and early Japanese concert starting times). There were no more surprise guests or Tweedy family stage debuts — though the band did play a cover (Neil Young's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere) that it had just learned a few hours earlier so, as Jeff said, it would have a new song to play — thus what the small but appreciative Osaka crowd was left with was

Arigato for the tips, Herr Tatlock! Been here once before and had a great overnight visit to Nikko. This time, spending a couple of days in Kyoto to have a wander (any musts there?). Then back to the big metropolis briefly for some record shopping and eating before (unfortunately) heading back. Didn't realize you were such a Nippon-ophile!

Well I couldn't miss all the fun on this latest Tweedy band jaunt, which may very well end up marking the de facto end of the touring behind the Sukierae record, so it was more than worth the effort to get to this great city. And as has been the case thus far with Bowie covers, surprise guests and on-stage debuts, Tweedy — the man, the band and the family — has kept the audience on its toes. Such was the case again tonight when Jeff brought old friend, collaborator and esteemed Tokyo denizen Jim O'Rourke on stage for a couple of Loose Fur songs to close out the set. In introducing Jim — and

Haha, yeah...lotta hit and runs here. But Lou, you'll always be our Chicago ambassador. Those Super Summit(s) seem like ages ago now...

So so awesome that Courtney joined them for Queen Bitch! Wow! No video of that, I guess? Did they split the vocals or did CB mostly sing? Whatever the case, that must have ruled. Sounds like you guys are getting a re-energized Tweedy band, which is great. They all really love playing together, I think, and probably cherish the times that they get to do so. Wonder if there will be a different Bowie cover every night...haha! Probably not, but one can hope. Too bad you were only lukewarm on Those Pretty Wrongs. Jody is one of the nicest, most generous musicians around and I've been hoping to s

No one around here now even remembers her anymore...

Where does the Timeline Chick fit into this whole thing, I wonder. And yes, I am a Danish. Cherry.

Nick Offerman was also there, apparently. Wonder if Jon Hamm made it. https://twitter.com/mikemccawley/status/706578126977929217 Kind of funny (no pun intended) to think of Jeff performing in front of all of these comedians. Hopefully the banter was up to snuff...

Well, it appears that the first of the annual Living Room shows Jeff does to benefit Letters To Santa went down last night somewhere in LA at the home of Jeff Ullrich, who is a co-founder of Midroll Media and, by extension, Earwolf (one the biggest comedy podcast companies). Incidentally, I think this must have been the show that went in the Internet auction — for in excess of $150k. Anyway, I obviously wasn't there and have no inside information other than what's publicly available, but some easy Internet snooping revealed that folks like Marc Maron, Scott Aukerman and Lauren Lapkus were in

Thanks for reading! As far as NAK, it's always so hard for me to fully absorb a song the first time hearing it, but generally speaking, I liked it. I liked the lyrics, as I usually do with Jeff's work. It'll be interesting to see, if it is indeed destined for the next Wilco record, how the band arrangement ends up being. Structurally, if memory serves, it didn't seem to have a classic chorus but more of like each verse had some reference to "Normal American Kids," if that makes any sense (maybe a little bit like We've Been Had?). Anyway, I could kind of see it fitting in with what Jeff has des

Always appreciate you reading, Eric!

It'll take me a little while to get a full recap together, and I'll never be able to fully capture all of Jeff's very amusing forays around Banter Corner, but suffice it to say that it was a treat to be able to witness this intimate 75-minute performance in the cozy Acorn Theater. This was, as Jeff himself remarked at one point, "maybe the closest I've ever played to a bed that I owned," so it was especially nice to see how invested he was in a performance in front of many members of one of his adopted communities and that directly benefited a member of said community (namely Ibrahim Parlak, a

Probably any of the Tweedy band shows in the Roadcase. Wilco's never done it.

You prescient bastard.

Sounds like you're confusing Richard Bowden and Richard Thompson. Bowden plays fiddle in Ryan Bingham's band and sat in with Wilco on a few occasions on the AmericanaramA tour and afterward, while Thompson of course is the legendary guitar player who also played some shows on the AmericanaramA run. Regardless, I'd be pretty surprised if any new record is out before late summer at the earliest.

Nice! I just heard that this would be happening, but wasn't sure exactly when. (P.S. Good snooping...looks like they took the page down for now!)

Replying to my own post with an update... Not sure of the order, but according to some brief intel from my friend, Jeff did a solo acoustic Please Tell My Brother, then with Rosanne and her band: Seven Year Ache, Long Black Veil, Sea Of Heartbreak, California Stars and the aforementioned GFTNC. There may have been more, but that's what my friend remembered.

I don't suppose anyone on here made it to this show last night, and can provide any more details? A friend of mine snuck (and given how strict they usually are with camera phones and the like at Carnegie, snuck is the right word) a video of Jeff performing Dylan's Girl From The North Country with Ms. Cash and her band. I don't know yet if they performed anything else together (or if Jeff did an opening set). From this advance news item, it sounds like the plan was for Jeff to join Rosanne and Co. "for the second half of the program," which was to feature songs from her 2009 record The List.

Surprised that no one has posted about this yet. I'd be curious to know whether the person who kept the wallet was actually a Wilco fan or not... http://gothamist.com/2016/02/17/wallet_found_half_returned.php

Great to see you, Mike, and I appreciate the breather. Anyway, it's fitting that a hometown boy should deliver the report and you did a thorough job! I always wanted to make it to a Mountain Stage taping, so I'm glad I finally did. Apparently this show, which was #863 in the program's history, won't air until sometime around early April and it will be interesting to see what makes it in. Pretty stellar lineup for this episode — in addition to Wilco, Au Pair (with Gary Louris of The Jayhawks and Django Haskins of The Old Ceremony), Joan Shelley, Brooke Waggoner and Shawn Mullins were also on

[NB: I was still writing/editing this while the subsequent "rave" was posted, but as Buddy Holly said, rave on!] When the list of tour dates for this run of winter shows came out, you'd have been forgiven for scratching your head at the final headlining performance being in a theater in Roanoke, Virginia. It was the only tour stop that the band hadn't ever played before, and I hate to use the t word but you'd have to say this place fit the term "tertiary market" to a T. So, naturally, the 'Oke helped produce what I would say was probably one of the best all-around shows of the tour that I

That's an outtake of Taste The Ceiling, right?

For the penultimate headlining show of what has been a fairly long tour by current Wilco standards — and before a surely welcome off day — the band largely stuck to the template it has established in recent weeks: Star Wars, greatest hits, hootenanny. If there was anything I detected tonight, perhaps it was an early loss of concentration on Jeff's part. I counted three separate minor stumbles during the performance of Star Wars, which has rarely happened that I've noticed. Maybe he really was distracted by the audience member he pointed out to his right who apparently had a large Band-Aid ac