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Two weeks before Wilco drop their latest album, Cousin, the band has unveiled the title track from their upcoming studio LP. “I’m cousin to the world,” Jeff Tweedy said of the track in a statement. “I don’t feel like I’m a blood relation, but maybe I’m a cousin by marriage. …

Jeff Tweedy never meant to be a memoirist. “I was kind of recruited to write a book based on some agent’s idea that I might be able to write something worth reading,” he says, recalling a conversation five or more years ago. “I said, ‘Sure, I guess.’ It felt accidental.” …

Wilco are back with a new song, “Evicted,” which will appear on their next album, Cousin, out Sept. 29. “Evicted” is, in many ways, quintessential Wilco, with its easy but moody country-rock palette. But there are flourishes of what celebrated Welsh musician Cate Le Bon — who produced Cousin — …

Wilco are heading on the road this fall. On Tuesday, the band, fronted by Jeff Tweedy, announced the dates for their fall tour, titled “Tour to Infinity,” in support of last year’s LP Cruel Country. After a run of dates in Europe in August, the group will kick off their …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Two decades after Wilco recorded “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,” they’re now ready to break your bank. The long-running indie rock group led by Jeff Tweedy …

Jeff Tweedy, Wilco frontman and prolific blogger, has penned his third book World Within a Song, due out in November. Much like Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song and Bono’s Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, World Within a Song finds Tweedy writing about over 50 songs that inspired him …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The CD and vinyl versions of Wilco’s 2022 album, Cruel Country, are finally arriving this week, and to celebrate, the band has announced a new run of spring …

Philco — the one-off supergroup led by the Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh alongside Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Nils Cline, Margo Price, and more — made their debut Friday night at Chicago’s Sacred Rose Festival. The concert, which coincided with Tweedy’s 54th birthday, saw the Wilco frontman take lead vocals …

Mitski released the soaring, melodic Laurel Hell; Bartees Strange jumped genres and blew minds with Farm to Table; Wilco went warm and melodic, if not truly country, with Cruel Country; Wet Leg revived the post-punk revival with their endlessly entertaining self-titled debut, ending up on Glastonbury’s main stage. And those …

Wilco’s first big gesture when they formed in the Nineties was to leave behind the sound of co-founder Jeff Tweedy’s first band, Midwestern alt-country icons Uncle Tupelo. It was a smart move, since at the time even the kind of people who liked iconic Midwestern alt-country were starting to get …