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Wilco fans, mark your calendars: The band’s biannual Solid Sound Festival is returning to North Adams, Massachusetts, on June 26-28, 2026 — and they’ve just announced a very special show to kick off the weekend. On the festival’s opening night, Wilco will be joined by U.K. folk singer Billy Bragg …

Humanity is in a bad way these days, in case you haven’t noticed. Jeff Tweedy has, and he made an album about it — three albums, in fact. Wilco’s prolific frontman has described his new triple LP as his humble effort to push back against the overwhelming darkness of life …

The Outlaw Music Festival began nine years back as a single event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, featuring Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Chris Robinson, and Lee Ann Womack. It’s slowly morphed into a traveling fest that brings Nelson and a rotating cast of top-grade support acts to amphitheaters across America …

If you’re a fan of Jeff Tweedy, you know that he writes a lot of songs. Not just in the sense that he’s spent more than 30 years leading Wilco through one of the most rewarding and varied catalogs in American music, although that’s also true. On the most literal …

2004’s A Ghost Is Born has a key place in Wilco’s mythology. Recorded at a time of personal turmoil for singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy, it’s the first album they made after 2002’s era-defining, ante-upping Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, with all the expectations that came with that moment. For fans at the time, …

Garth Hudson’s death at age 87 has left fans of the Band grieving. With this loss, none of the five musicians who made everything from ‘Music From Big Pink’ to ‘The Last Waltz’ are still living. “It’s the kind of thing that makes you really want to believe in a …

Wilco will return to the road this spring for a run through the U.S. South, with Waxahatchee joining them for most of the tour. The Sweet and Sour Spring 2025 Tour kicks off April 25 in Fairhope, AL, making its way through Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and the Carolinas before wrapping …

H ere they come now, bustling down the street in Brooklyn, three young musicians wrapped in winter coats and chatting animatedly among themselves as they approach the diner on the corner. It’s a chilly Friday in December, just a couple of degrees above freezing, but that’s nothing for this trio …

A little more than 20 years ago, in June 2004, Wilco released an album that stands alone in their catalog. A Ghost Is Born was the Chicago band’s fifth album and the first one they made after the label drama and studio innovation of 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. It faced …

Not long ago, Johnny Irion was putting the finishing touches on his new album when he realized that he could use some harmony vocals. So he called Mike Mills, who met him at a mutual friend’s studio in Georgia, and they spent an afternoon singing together. “I just love Johnny’s …