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At a Strand of Oaks show last weekend, Pat Finnerty (who now plays guitar for Strand of Oaks and also does the “Why This Song Stinks” podcast) opened the show for SoA by playing random covers that the

It was a birthday surprise for the co-host Matt Spiegel (for those who don't know he is in a great cover band called Tributosaurus).

Wait til you get a couple episodes further… 

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Yeah I've heard Taste The Ceiling on CBC Radio Two 3 or 4 times in the past few weeks, looks like they're giving it pretty high rotation, which is good to hear. 

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Yeah I've heard Taste The Ceiling on CBC Radio Two 3 or 4 times in the past few weeks, looks like they're giving it pretty high rotation, which is good to hear. 

Well, as noted earlier, it is a "breezy little ditty" that made Entertainment Weekly's list of "Hot Midsummer Jams for your Weekend", so that may explain it. 

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/24/midsummer-playlist

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Don't know if this is really out and about, but..

I have a lot of cookies or trackers (even though I supposedly don't accept them)  that watch what sites I visit (like Amazon) and in turn place ads or suggested posts on sites like Facebook, the Weather Channel, & Huffington Post.

That's fine, I don't really care, but it becomes a little surprising when I want to find out if it's going to rain today, and see our beloved Star Wars kitty-cat blinking back at me on a banner over the current temperature on the Weather Channel site.

I've grown to expect to see ads for a mouse or an ink cartridge that I'm shopping for appear on these sites , but find it a bit unnerving to see an ad for a Wilco album!

Boy, the internets sure have changed in the last few years...

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Well, as noted earlier, it is a "breezy little ditty" that made Entertainment Weekly's list of "Hot Midsummer Jams for your Weekend", so that may explain it. 

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/24/midsummer-playlist

I sincerely doubt the Canadian Broadcast Corporation is getting their music choices from Entertainment Weekly. CBC 2 plays Wilco fairly regularly, before Star Wars every few weeks you'd hear songs like Heavy Metal Drummer, Jesus etc, or California Stars, but this is the first time they've put a new Wilco song into their regular rotation. Taste The Ceiling is a good pick as it's pretty accessible to the average listener. 

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Several days ago I was in OfficeMax and the clerk noticed my T-shirt, saying, "Wilco!  Cool, man."  Thing is, the T-shirt was the "Kaysettes Starring Butchers Blind" one, which only a serious fan would immediately grasp as a Wilco shirt.

 

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That has got to be one of the coolest, most "insider" tee shirts I've ever seen!  Love it.

Saturday at the Crave festival (local food & music festival here in Lexington), a Chicago band called JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound opened with a very upbeat cover of IATTBYH. 

Didn't they play Solid Sound?  Or is my mind totally melting in the summer heat?

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"Pick Up the Change," heard in between sets of a bunch of local bands playing an outdoor all-day thing yesterday. It inspired me to listen to AM while cooking this afternoon. I very rarely listen to Wilco's studio recordings anymore (with the exception of SW), and it's amazing how well AM holds up. I just love it all the way through. Jeff's voice, so young and scratchy, John on "It's Just That Simple," Brian Henneman's warm, soulful guitar playing. What a great record.

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Not heard but seen:

On my way to my home (in the suburbs) from the North Side of Chicago, I'm pretty sure that I saw Jeff out biking with his son.

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Well, sort of. Could not be bothered to start a new topic for a small tangential item I came across.

 

http://www.mhpbooks.com/the-first-rule-of-jeff-bezoss-writers-retreat-is-dont-talk-about-jeff-bezoss-writers-retreat/

 

"Bezos reportedly also flew in Jeff Tweedy and Werner Herzog for entertainment."

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/technology/a-writerly-chill-at-bezos-fire-.html

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