Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has released an acoustic mini-masterpiece, an understated tour-de-force that quietly creeps up on you and never lets go. Tweedy’s new release, Together at Last, recorded at the band’s…
Jeff Tweedy
Good thing I didn’t let this one slip through the cracks. This guy just doesn’t slow down – rocking harder than before and belting out ballsy numbers as if he’d…
Wilco unleashed the blinking kitty last week on an unsuspecting audience. Does it blow blow up your Death Star or just scratch away at the kitty litter?
Exhilarating. Emotional. Exhausting. The 2014 Newport Folk Festival.
The Staple Singers let go of the past on this 1975 classic
Wilco’s back with a new label and everything. Check out “I Might” at Popdose.
Ken Shane will be covering the Newport Folk Festival for Popdose again this weekend. Among the artists he looks forward to seeing is soul legend Mavis Staples.
The venerable Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey, began life as a legitimate theatre in 1922 before being converted to a movie theatre in 1929. The venue fell on hard…
7 Worlds Collide, spearheaded by Crowded House’s Neil Finn, is a loose collective formed with friends, acquaintances and contemporaries coming together in a studio to hash out some songs. It’s…
The coolest thing about 7 Worlds Collide’s The Sun Came Out is also its biggest flaw: Namely, that “group” founder Neil Finn brought the whole damn thing together — all…
Once upon a time there was a pioneering Americana band from Belleville, Il. called Uncle Tupelo. Two of the founding members of the band were Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar….
Wilco is back, with the appropriately titled Wilco (the album), and Ken Shane is here to tell you how it stacks up against the band’s critically adored earlier work.
Last week I told you about the Hold Steady’s new DVD, A Positive Rage. You may recall that it is strictly a lo-fi affair, and really more of a documentary…
Boston.com’s Big Picture visits the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival; The Onion A.V. Club’s Hater returns to action; VH1’s remaining viewers have voted on the 100 greatest hard…