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The Tweedy/Tweedy and sons/Deerhoof collaboration 7" drops 10/11/11

A lot has been happening for Jeff Tweedy lately. Yesterday, he performed a solo show in Honolulu, Hawaii for his first ever performance in the state. Reviews for the performance look to have been generally (as expected) pretty great.

Tweedy showed why he’s always been considered to be a remarkably distinct singer and guitarist. The man knows how to hold his audience’s rapt attention. And Tweedy didn’t start off easy early on, with his second song being the long tale of “Remember the Mountain Bed,” originally from the “Mermaid Avenue” project Wilco did with English folksinger Billy Bragg. The captivating, imagistic lyrics of folk icon Woody Guthrie came alive, thanks the Tweedy melody that was wrapped around it. – HonoluluPulse.com

Want to be jealous? Here’s the Setlist from last Sunday’s Hawaii show (thanks to I got your setlist right here…)

Spiders (Kidsmoke)
Remember The Mountain Bed
One Wing
You And I
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Muzzle Of Bees
Via Chicago
Hummingbird
Dawned On Me
You Are Not Alone
Someday, Some Morning, Sometime
Not For The Season
New Madrid
So Much Wine [The Handsome Family]
Jesus, etc.
I’m Always In Love
I’m The Man Who Loves You
A Shot in the Arm
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Born Alone (w/Pat Sansone on acoustic guitar and backing vocals)
Open Your Mind (w/Pat Sansone on acoustic guitar and backing vocals)
California Stars (w/Pat Sansone on acoustic guitar and backing vocals)
Be Patient With Me (w/Pat Sansone on acoustic guitar and backing vocals)
The Late Greats (w/Pat Sansone on acoustic guitar and backing vocals)
Heavy Metal Drummer (w/Pat Sansone on acosutic guitar and backing vocals)
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Walken (performed at edge of stage w/o PA system) – Chcek out the video below!

Jeff Tweedy – Walken Live at the Hawaii Theater

Jeff Tweedy – Banter + Hummingbird

Jeff Tweedy - Via Chicago

*Note – Apparently, Pat Sansone also opened for Tweedy in a rare solo acoustic performance. Here’s the setlist:

Silence
Every Day
Tell Me What You Want
The Answer
Don’t Forget Me
Even Better [Mark Mulcahy]
This Will Fall Away
Tuesday Morning
The Swallows Of London Town
You And Your Sister [Chris Bell]

Here are a few videos from what looks and sounds to have been an excellent set:

Pat Sansone – Unknown Song (one of the songs listed above that’s not The Answer or Even Better)

Pat Sansone – The Answer

There is also some more big news from the world of Tweedy. In last month’s Tweedy Feed I mentioned Jeff’s collaboration with Deerhoof as well as his two sons in Deerhoof’s split 7″ series. Since then, many of us have been wondering exactly how such a collaboration would sound. Well we need wonder no more.

The Raccoonists – Own It

That’s Jeff Tweedy with his two sons, Spencer and Sam, in his latest side project “The Raccoonists.” It’s pretty crazy, the beginning almost like something out of Eraserhead, yet still very cool, and very rockin’. The A-side of the Deerhoof-Tweedy collaboration, Behold a Raccoon in the Darkness, features Tweedy singing over the instrumental part of Deerhoof’s “Behold a Marvel in the Darkness.” I have two words describe it: awesome.

Check out both sides of the single here, and pre-order it on pink clear vinyl here!

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Wilco: Big in Japan – Set List, pictures, videos and More!

Fuji Rock Festival. Japan. Almost worth flying the 106 hours to get there.

I don’t think Japan has been this happy since it convinced some Americans that Digimon was as cool as Pokémon  (it totally wasn’t). The Fuji Rock Festival took place last weekend at the Naeba Ski Resort in Japan, featuring bands from all around the spectrum of great music. Bands from Arctic Monkeys to Beach House to Big Audio Dynamite to a little indie band only your weird underground friend at the Bodega has heard about: Wilco (I hope I’m pronouncing that correctly). After this summer’s Solid Sound Festival  and announcements of an upcoming tour to go along with the new album, The Whole Love, it’s safe to say that many Wilco fans are jones-ing for some more live Wilco performances. Some fans in Japan got their wish yesterday, enjoying (what I assume was) a killer set from Tweedy and the gang, along with other performances throughout the weekend from: 

• Arctic Monkeys
• Asian Dub Foundation
• Atari Teenage Riot
• The Avett Brothers
• Beach House
• Best Coast
• Big Audio Dynamite,
• Buddy Guy
• Cake
• Chemical Brothers
• Coldplay
• Congotronics vs Rockers
• Cornershop
• CSS
• Dark Star Orchestra
• Deerhoof
• digitalism
• The Faces
• Feeder
• Four Tet
• Funeral Part
• G. Love & Special Sauce
• Incubus
• The Kills
• Manu Chao
• Mogwai
• The Naked & Famous
• New Mastersounds
• Noah & The Whale
• The Pains Of Being Pure Heart
• Queens Of The Stone Age
• The Sisters Of Mercy
• Tangerine Dream
• Tinarwen
• Todd Rundgren
• Warpaint
• Wu Lyf
• Yellow Magic Orchestra

Anyway, for those of us who (many of us who reluctantly) missed the festival, here’s the set list from Wilco’s July 31st set:

Fuji Rock Festival Set list

• I Might (new song)
• Bull Black Nova
• Side With the Seeds
• I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
• One Wing
• Ashes of American Flags
• War on War
• Via Chicago
• Impossible Germany
• Born Alone (new song)
• Handshake Drugs
• Jesus Etc.
• Dawned on Me (new song)
• Shot in the Arm
• Heavy Metal Drummer
• I’m the Man Who Loves You
• Late Greats
• Red Eyed and Blue / I Got You (At the End of the Century)
• Outtasite (Outta Mind)
• I’m a Wheel

Here’s a few videos (big time thanks to Mariana-mrnnr.tumblr.com – for finding the first one) of surpirisngly great audio and video quality from the Fuji Rock Festival. The first is the band playing I Got You (At The End of The Century), from the Being There record, the one below it is particularly rockin’ version of the now-iconic song, Heavy Metal Drummer from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. To be completely honest, I’m not 100% sure what the third video is; it’s definitely very cool, though. Maybe we could play “Name That Solo?” The game in which Wilco fans watch the 42-second clip, and if they guess the correct song, they win a comment with their name on it!

UPDATE: The third song is a clip of Ashes of American Flags. Big ups (yes, that’s a thing. Just go with it) to @AlexHansonman for pointing that out!

If any other videos surface, I’ll be sure to throw them up here as soon as I can.

Wilco -Red Eyed and Blue / I Got You (At The End of The Century)

Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer

Wilco – Ashes of American Flags

UPDATE: Here are 3 more videos that have surfaced of Wilco at the Fuji Rock Festival:

Wilco – Dawned on Me (new tune!)

Wilco – One Wing

Wilco - Side With the Seeds

There are also some fantastic pictures from the show, which you can take a gander (or a goose, if you’d rather) at below (from fujirockexpress.net  and newaudiogram.com – thanks (once again!) to Koji Kumada and Time Out Tokyo for keeping me in the loop).

Can’t wait to see Wilco live and hear the newest tunes? Check out last week’s poll here to vote for your favorite live Wilco performance, and listen to some of the latest tunes from The Whole Love here.

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