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Pre-Sale and On Sale dates are here for the West Coast North American leg of the tour!

We asked for it, and here it is! The pre-sale and on sale dates for the first leg of the 2012 Whole Love tour have been announced!

Check out Wilcoworld.net for all of the dates so far.

The option to request a song is back! Just click on the link next to the venue, and request your favorite Wilco tune!

19 Jan 2012 / Denver, CO / Fillmore Auditorium|request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM MDT
On sale: October 29 at 10:00AM MDT
21 Jan 2012 / Tempe, AZ / ASU Gammage|request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM MST
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM MST
22 Jan 2012 / San Diego, CA / Copley Symphony Hall|request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
24 Jan 2012 / Hollywood, CA / Hollywood Palladium|request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
28 Jan 2012 / San Jose, CA / San Jose Civic| request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
29 Jan 2012 / San Francisco, CA / The Warfield| request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
31 Jan 2012 / Oakland, CA / Fox Theater| request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
01 Feb 2012 / Davis, CA / Mondavi Center|request a song| view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
03 Feb 2012 / Eugene, OR / Hult Center|request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
05 Feb 2012 / Vancouver, BC / Orpheum|request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
06 Feb 2012 / Spokane, WA / INB Arts Center|request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
07 Feb 2012 / Seattle, WA / Paramount| request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
08 Feb 2012 / Portland, OR / Arlene Schnitzer Hall|request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT
10 Feb 2012 / Santa Barbara, CA / Arlington Theater| request a song|view details
Pre-sale: October 26 at 10:00AM PDT
On sale: October 28 at 10:00AM PDT

Also, if you haven’t seen Wilco’s performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series, I implore you to take a gander. Dig Glenn Kotche’s drumming instruments!

 

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It’s been quite a few weeks since the last update, so I figured I’d give you guys a kind of Wilco News Lightning Round (patent pending).

The moment we’ve been waiting for since it was announced almost four months ago has finally come. The result? The Whole Love is pretty awesome.

Many of us were treated to a 24-hour streaming party of the album a few weeks ago, but as many Wilco fans know, every album requires a few listenings to really get into it; now that it’s been out for a couple of weeks, I’m surprised that my vinyl copy of The Whole Love isn’t just a pile of string by now.

I thoroughly dig the new album (it goes without saying), as does almost everyone else, apparently.

  • Rolling Stone gives The Whole Love 4 Stars, picking it as the editor’s pick of the week two weeks back.
  • Spin gives it an 8/10, saying “Whoever has been dismissing Wilco as “dad rock” must have pretty complicated relationships with their fathers.”
  • The LA Times gives The Whole Love 3.5/4 Stars. “Nearly every song contains some tangential surprise, odd hook, sonic back flip or midsong redefinition.”
  • Reuters claims that The Whole Love shows shades of Beatles, stating that “[The Whole Love] thoroughly [summarizes] the disparate sides the beloved band has developed over the last 16 years.

Critics’ opinions are always welcome, but what really matters is what the band thinks of the record.

Jeff Tweedy, the Wilco frontman himself, discussed a select few tracks from The Whole Love in a recent interview:

“I Might”— The music that always feels the most like home to me is ’60s garage band music, “Pebbles”- and “Nuggets”-type (garage band compilation albums) of one-hit-wonder garage band music. That’s just the stuff that’s the most deeply ingrained in my DNA and my blood. It’s kind of weird that it doesn’t shine through that much. But it seems like it does on this record. That Farfisa (organ) sound is a pretty major part of that. It wasn’t even directed, actually. Mike (keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen) is just a big fan of that sound too. So that’s what he went for.

Art of Almost”— It was always the first track, from the second we started working on it. It opened the door the widest to the rest of the record. I think it’s the least categorizable song. We’ve had a string of records that have really hammered home this theory that whatever you put first on a record basically becomes the shorthand that that record has to endure critically. “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” would be talked about very differently if “Heavy Metal Drummer” was the first song on that album. “Either Way” was the first song on “Sky Blue Sky,” and of course that’s the “really mellow” record. I thought this was a chance to say, “What is this? You tell me.”

I also thought (it) would be interesting to start a record with hard drives starting up. The way it was described in the studio is the sound of data dying. The record kind of moves from that to the opposite end of the spectrum, to the most organic and pastoral kind of sound that you can put on a record.

“One Sunday Morning (For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)” — “Art of Almost” is a collage, and “One Sunday Morning” is one long performance. We never really played it again. That was just the one time we played it.It really doesn’t have much to do with Jane Smiley. I have met her boyfriend. The best I can do to explain it is I really like the guy, and we had a really poignant conversation for two guys that don’t really know each other. I did my best to reflect what I thought was powerful about that discussion.

You certainly know how to cut to the core of us, Tweedy.

In other Recent Tweedy-related interview news, The AV Club put out an outstanding interview with J. Tweed (I imagine he’d be cool with me calling him “J. Tweed”) last week. In it, he discussed the new record, Nirvana’s Nevermind, Wilco’s success and stability as a band, and the idea of “monoculturism.”

It seems like we have very fractured perceptions of reality. People shop for their own realities to reinforce the way they feel already, politically or—I don’t know. I guess there is a sense that you can kind of use the way the media works now to just build your own little universe. – Jeff Tweedy

Check out the whole interview here.

WilcoTube

Yeah, that’s right. Last week, the boys from Wilco curated YouTube. Just nod and pretend you know what that means.

Basically, the guys picked bunch of cool YouTube videos from around the interweb and put them in a sweet playlist.

Here’s a little taste of the selections:

Os mutantes – Fuga Nº 2

Reggie Watts – Big Ass Purse

Rock Vocals, Part 2 – May

Want to see more? Of course you do! Check out Wilco’s playlist, “Wilco Says: Watch!

Hipstamatic Cassette Contest

Because vinyl is getting “too mainstream” for most hipsters, Wilco has announced a limited edition cassette release of The Whole Love. In fact, they have partnered with Hipstamatic on a contest to create the cover art for said cassette!

All anyone has to do for this contest is submit photos to Hipstamatic titled with the song from The Whole Love. The top five pictures, selected by members of Wilco themselves, will be on the cover of The Whole Love’s limited edition cassette!

I’m not much of a photog, but I call this one “Art of Almost”

See, because I had to wait a long time for UPS to get here. Never mind. It’s a “think-piece.”

Anyway, to submit a photo, or for more info on the contest, check out Hipstamatic.

Also, if anybody is interested in entering the cassette contest, send me your pictures on Twitter @WilcoNews, and I’ll retweet the best ones!

Other tidbits:

  • Didn’t get tickets to see Wilco in concert this year? The good folks at NYCTaper were kind enough to record these incredible quality bootlegs of the New York gigs at Summerstage. Download them here!
  • ‘Art of Almost’ one of the (many) standout tracks from The Whole Love has quite a history. Check out the band members’ thoughts on the track here.
  • Check out Tweedy and the gang on “Talk Stoop,” just in case for some reason you doubted their talent or wit.
  • Here’s another excellent article from The AV Club, discussing Wilco’s label as “The American Radiohead.”   “If anybody wanted to model themselves after us, they better be fucking be patient,” says Tweedy.
  • Dig the artwork for The Whole Love? Check out this sweet interview with Joanne Greenbaum, the artist behind the album artwork on wilcoworld.net.

Tour Updates!

Wilco has announced yet another (!) Chicago performance, bringing their grand total to 4 shows at 4 different venues in Chi-Town this year. Tickets for their show at The Metro go on sale at 10 AM this Saturday, October 16th. Get ‘em here!

Another leg of the North American tour has been added: West Coast dates for the  early 2012 have been announced. More info about tickets will be provided as it becomes available. For now, here’s the dates so far:

1/19 Denver, CO – Fillmore

1/21 Tempe, AZ – Gammage

1/22 San Diego, CA – Copley Symph. Hall

1/24 Hollywood, CA – Palladium

1/28 San Jose, CA – Civic Aud

1/29 San Francisco, CA – Warfield

1/31 Oakland, CA – Fox Theatre
2/1 Davis, CA – Mondavi Center

2/3 Eugene, OR – Hult Center

2/5 Vancouver, BC – Orpheum

2/6 Spokane, WA – INB Performing Arts Center

2/7 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theater

2/8 Portland, OR – Schnitzer Theater

2/10 Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theater

And the remaining shows for this year:

10-24 Glasgow, Scotland – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
10-25 Manchester, England – Manchester Academy
10-27 Bristol, England – Colston Hall
10-28-29 London, England – Roundhouse
11-01 Madrid, Spain – Teatro Circo Price
11-02 Barcelona, Spain – Palau Musica Catalana
11-03 San Sebastian, Spain – Kursaal Auditorio
11-04 Vigo, Spain – Pavillon das Travesas
11-07 Basel, Switzerland – Kaserne Basel
11-08 Frankfurt, Germany – Alte Oper
11-09 Munich, Germany – Circus Krone
11-11 Weissenhauser, Germany  - Rolling Stone Weekender
11-12 Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom
11-13 Utrecht, Netherlands – Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn
11-14 Tilburg, Netherlands – 013
11-29 Dallas, TX – The Music Hall at Fair Park
12-01 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater
12-03 Kansas City, MO – The Uptown Theater
12-04 De Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom
12-06-07 Minneapolis, MN – The State Theatre
12-09 Milwaukee, WI – The Riverside Theater
12-10 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
12-12 Chicago, IL – Civic Opera House
12-13 Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
12-15 Chicago, IL – The Vic
12-16 Chicago, IL – Metro

Well, that’s enough out of me. I now leave you with this clip of Nels Cline playing Duane Allman’s ’57 Les Paul  during a performance of California Stars on 9/29/11. Enjoy it.

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Die Rolling Stone Die! That's German for "The Rolling Stone. The," because it's a German Rolling Stone. See how that worked out?

Man. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I apologize for my inconsistencies with updates, but between moving, setting up internet in a new apartment, problems with said internet set up, and starting classes (and the work that goes into them) I haven’t had a whole lot of time to update the site.

Anyways, as many of you probably already know, much has happened in the world of Wilco lately.

  • Last Saturday, September 3rd, Tweedy and the boys were cool enough to let all of us stream The Whole Love in its entirety on the WilcoWorld site. General consensus, at least from The Twitter (that’s what the kids are calling it now), is that it’s everything we could have hoped it would be and more. Don’t believe me? Check out these handy Twee-views (whether I made that word up or not, let’s please never use it again.):

I think it’s their White Album. Weird and pop in the best ways. Jeff’s best singing since Ghost. – @MHarrell

What we’ve all been waiting for. Awesome! - @tclarke34

One Sunday Morning (for Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend) might be the best song Tweedy has ever written. And by might be I mean is. – @AlexMcCourt19

Listening to new Wilco. It’s nice. Some of it has sort of an OK Computer meets ELO vibe. @CYMBLS_EAT_GTRS  (From Cymbals Eat Guitars – an outstanding new band.)

I’ve listened three times now. No holes in this album. Tweedy & Co. are the non-sports equivalent of Mariano Rivera. – @JoeCheckler

Amazing!! Very solid. I felt like there was a little bit of Jay reincarnated. Can’t wait to hear it live in less than 2 weeks! – @sayumsme

New Wilco is excellent! Awesome. – @rpecknold (Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes)
  • Also, not surprisingly, Wilco has announced an extension on their North American tour! After traveling overseas, the boys will be back in the States playing 9 more dates in cities from Dallas to…wait for it…Chicago! It’s a good thing, too; now those of us from Chi-town have time to let our forehead bruises heal from constantly bashing our heads against the wall, cursing our Moms for not letting us hitchhike to St. Louis to see the show at The Pageant. What? Don’t give me that look. Like I’m the weirdo. Anyway, here’s what the late fall is going to look like for Wilco (the band):
Details on tickets and pricing will be posted as they become available. Stay tuned!
  • Need to brush up on your Wilco history before the release of The Whole Love? Amazon’s got deals on the the entire Wilco catalog, throughout the entire month of September, with some MP3 albums starting at $5. Check it out here.
  • Wilco has joined with Farmer Foodshare, Triangle Local Businesses and Ten Farmers Markets in the “Farmer Foodshare Challenge.” Read about it here.
  • Some awesome videos for new tunes have surfaced

Wilco - I Love my Label (Live in Studio)

Jeff Tweedy Dawned On Me (Acoustic version of song on The Whole Love)
**UPDATE: NEW MUSIC VIDEO ALERT! In characteristically surprising fashion, the boys have released a video for Born Alone, a track off The Whole Love today. Check it out!
  • Also, there’s this. If this video signifies the end of the world, I think I can die happy. Don’t ask, just watch.
Jeff Tweedy - I Gotta Feeling (At Dan Sinker’s “The Fucking Epic Twitter Quest of Mayor Emanuel,”  book launch party, September 6)
What more could one ask for? Jeff Tweedy reciting the lyrics to My Humps, William S. Burroughs-style, you say? Good call.
Jeff TweedyMy Humps
In case you couldn’t get enough (and who can?) Tweedy-Peas covers, here’s another!
Jeff TweedyRock That Body
Can somebody please get Tweedy to play “TiK ToK” Next? Maybe get Nels to lay down some tasty licks on the Theremin in the background?
  • For those of you who missed the stream on Saturday (what were you busy doing, working?), the songs from The Whole Love have been uploaded to YouTube. Check ‘em all out here while you can, before Jeff Tweedy comes to your house and kicks you in the head.
Well, I suppose that about wraps ‘er all up for now. I’ll keep you posted with any new info on tour dates, etc, as they become available.
By the way, does anyone have a favorite song off of The Whole Love so far? For my money (which I spent on the pre-order), Art of Almost is quite an achievement.

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Record Store Day

Hope everyone got their tickets last week for Wilco’s upcoming fall tour. If you haven’t already purchased said tickets, chances are you’re S.O.L… or areyou?

...and Wilco. The best combo since pretzels filled with cheese?

Wilco has partnered up with Record Store Day to bring us the “I Love My Record Store” contest. Before everybody gets all up in arms trying to decode this mysterious title for a contest, let me explain:

Wilco’s latest single from their forthcoming album The Whole Love is entitled “I Might.” The B-side to that single is a cover of Nick Lowe’s “I Love My Label,” a wink to the fact that Wilco recently dropped Nonesuch, their previous label, and created their own: dBpm. Henceforth, the Record Store Day contest is called “I Love My Record Store,” which is in and of itself a wink to the Wilco cover of “I Love My Label.” Everybody on board? Good. I’m not explaining that again.

Anyway, here’s how to enter:

  1. Go to the Record Store Day site here
  2. Enter your information on the form
  3. Write down the name of your favorite record store and why it’s your favorite
  4. Pray to Uncle Tupelo, The Wilco (and Son Volt) God of tunes, that your name is selected to go see Wilco Live At Central Park on September 22! (Contest ends 7/31, so hurry up! And don’t forget to include the name of the store, as well as the city and state so we can share the love!).

The contest ends 7/31, so mosey on over!

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I Might need to start making tour update posts every week

Woah. That was fast. With Wednesday and Thursday’s presales behind us, many of us scrambled to get tickets for Wilco’s upcoming The Whole Love tour yesterday when they went on sale to the general public. Since then, a few shows have sold out, a show has been added, and cries of “Whyyy?” from Chicago were audible throughout the country due to the loss of alternative rock radio station Q101, and there still not being a Wilco show scheduled for the fall.

There may be hope, though, for those of us without a fall Wilco show to look forward to. Some shows have sold out too damn fast (the St. Louis show at the Peabody Opera house sold out in 25 minutes!). As a result, Wilco has added a second show in New York at Summerstage on 9/23, and I’m hoping more dates will be added soon.

*Update: Both New York City shows have been sold out as of 7/22

*Update: Both Nashville shows have sold out as of 8/1

*Update: For the Madison, WI show on Oct. 5 – A select few, limited view seats have opened up for the Madison show on Oct 5th.
These tickets are not available online, you can purchase via box office or inquire by phone (608.258.4141)

If any new dates are added, I’ll post info about them (I’ll steal info) as soon as I can. For now, here are the remaining tour dates (prices don’t include fees) with tickets still available. I’ve whined about there being no Chicago show enough. What dates would you guys (and girls) like to see added? Or are you the kind of over-achievers that have tickets already?

From WilcoWorld.net:

Wilco, Indianapolis, IN
Sep 13 Murat Theatre @ The Old National Centre (Indianapolis, IN) $45.00 Buy Now >>
Wilco, Toronto, ON Night #1
Sep 16 Massey Hall (Toronto, ON) $55.25 Buy Now >>
Wilco, Toronto, ON Night #2
Sep 17 Massey Hall (Toronto, ON) $55.25 Buy Now >>
Wilco, Montreal, QC
Sep 18 Metropolis (Montreal, QC) $45.00 Buy Now >>
Wilco, Boston, MA
Sep 20 Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre (Boston, MA) $45.00 Buy Now >>
Wilco, New York, NY
Sep 22 Rumsey Playhouse (New York, NY) SOLD OUT!
Wilco, Columbia, MD
Sep 25 Merriweather Post Pavilion (Columbia, MD) $40.00 Buy Now >>
Wilco, Raleigh, NC
Sep 27 Raleigh Amphitheater (Raleigh, NC) $40.00 Buy Now >>
Wilco, Atlanta, GA Night #1
Sep 28 Cobb Energy Centre (Atlanta, GA) $40.00 Buy Now >>
Wilco, Atlanta, GA Night #2
Sep 29 Cobb Energy Centre (Atlanta, GA) $40.00 Buy Now >>
Wilco, Nashville, TN Night #1
Oct 1 Ryman Auditorium (Nashville, TN) SOLD OUT!
Wilco, Nashville, TN Night #2
Oct 2 Ryman Auditorium (Nashville, TN) SOLD OUT!
Wilco, St Louis, MO
Oct 4 Peabody Opera House (St Louis, MO) SOLD OUT!
Wilco, Madison, WI
Oct 5 Overture Hall (Madison, WI) SOLD OUT!

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Even Barack Obama's pleading Chicago's case for a Wilco show. "C'mon!" he argued. "Even Jolie Holland played here!"

Wilco’s unnamed (I’m still for “The Whole Tour”) North American tour is creeping up on us with each passing day. Between reading about Solid Sound Fest for the hundredth time and wishing we were there, listening to I Might and comparing it to the tunes gracing the Summerteeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot albums, and checking in on frontman Jeff Tweedy, Wilco fans have really been looking forward to two major things in the near future:

1. The new album, which won’t be released until September 27th (unless it’s leaked, in which case I’ll use one my six free chances to get away with downloading it). And

2. The tour.

Because we’ll have to make due with the tunes we’ve been provided with until the new album drops, many of us (especially those of us in Chicago, Wilco’s home city) are wondering, “When the hell can I see a live Wilco show again?” Well it looks like our prayers may be answered. *Update: Well, the presales are over now. Yeah, I couldn’t get in on it either. There may still be hope for some of us, though: check below for the times and dates tickets go on sale to the public.


North American Dates:

31 Jul 2011 / Niigata, JP / Fuji Rock Festival
13 Sep 2011 / Indianapolis, IN / Murat Theatre
Onsale: July 15, 10am EDT
16 Sep 2011 / Toronto, ONT / Massey Hall
Onsale: July 15, 10am EDT
17 Sep 2011 / Toronto, ONT / Massey Hall
Onsale: July 15, 10am EDT
18 Sep 2011 / Montreal, QUE / Métropolis
Presale: July 13, 10am EDT
Onsale: July 15, 12pm EDT
20 Sep 2011 / Boston, MA / The Wang Theatre
Onsale: July 15, 10am EDT
22 Sep 2011 / New York, NY / Rumsey Playfield in Central Park
Onsale: July 15, 12pm EDT
25 Sep 2011 / Columbia, MD / Merriweather Post Pavilion
Onsale: July 16, 10am EDT
27 Sep 2011 / Raleigh, NC / Raleigh Amphitheater
28 Sep 2011 / Atlanta, GA / Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
Presale: July 13, 10am EDT, 
Onsale: July 15, 10am EDT
29 Sep 2011 / Atlanta, GA / Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
Onsale: July 15, 10am EDT
01 Oct 2011 / Nashville, TN / The Ryman
Onsale: July 15, 12pm CDT
02 Oct 2011 / Nashville, TN / The Ryman
Onsale: July 15, 12pm CDT
04 Oct 2011 / St. Louis, MO / Peabody Opera House
Onsale: July 15, 11am CDT
05 Oct 2011 / Madison, WI / Madison Overture Hall
Onsale: July 16, 11am CDT

International Dates:

24 Oct 2011 / Glasgow, UK / Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 
25 Oct 2011 / Manchester, UK / Manchester Academy
27 Oct 2011 / Bristol, UK / Colston Hall
28 Oct 2011 / London, UK / Roundhouse
29 Oct 2011 / London, UK / Roundhouse
01 Nov 2011 / Madrid, ES / Teatro Circo Price
02 Nov 2011 / Barcelona, ES / Palau De La Musica Catalana
03 Nov 2011 / San Sebastián, ES / Kursaal Convention Center
07 Nov 2011 / Basel, CH / Kaserne Basel
08 Nov 2011 / Frankfurt, DE / Alte Oper
09 Nov 2011 / München, DE / Circus Krone
11 Nov 2011 / Wesendorf, DE / Rolling Stone Weekender
12 Nov 2011 / Berlin, DE / Tempodrom
13 Nov 2011 / Utrecht, NL / Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn view
14 Nov 2011 / Tilburg, NL / 013

Jeff Tweedy Solo Shows

04 Aug 2011 / Honolulu, HI / Hawaii Theatre
To get tickets for the remaining shows, visit WilcoWorld here. Hurry; they’re going fast!

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