Jeff Tweedy has confirmed a week-long run of solo tour dates for December, including short residencies in San Francisco and L.A. Check out the details below, right alongside a 90-minute acoustic set from 2005 and the handful of stops Wilco is making in Austin next month... more »
By Michael Tedder, eMusic ContributorLater this month, the legendary underground rock icons/heart-rending poets/drunken screw-ups the Replacements will play their first shows since breaking up onstage in Chicago 22 years ago. (Well, Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson and some other… more »
By Dave Sumner, eMusic ContributorDespite popular belief, jazz and pop music aren't at odds. In the past — and still to this day — jazz musicians have been both contributing to and tackling compositions from the Great American Songbook:… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorIn what can only be described as Chicago's biggest love fest since last weekend's Pitchfork Music Festival, Ezra Furman has covered the feel-good Wilco single "Heavy Metal Drummer" for the A.V. Club's Undercover series. From… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorYoko Ono has revealed the details of her latest Plastic Ono Band record, Take Me to the Land of Hell. Due out September 17th through the avant icon's own Chimera Music imprint, the effort features… more »
By Barry Walters, eMusic ContributorDecades after her 1969 solo debut and a whopping 63 years since she joined her family in the Staple Singers, septuagenarian Mavis Staples is once again doing work that eclipses records of singers a third… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorAs Pitchfork pointed out earlier today, Wilco presented its Solid Sound Festival at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art over the weekend and to make things interesting, the band's first set was nothing but cover… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorHeaded to Tennessee but still not sure who you want to see? Fear not: We've boiled the brain-busting Bonnaroo schedule down to 20 essential sets. more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorProps to Pitchfork for discovering this one, the first truly fascinating commercial to ever feature faucets and Wilco drummer/new-music composer Glenn Kotche... more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorBob Dylan has announced his most ambitious summer tour in quite some time. Set to start on June 26th in West Palm Beach, FL, and wind down on August 4th in Mountain View, CA, the… more »
By Laura Leebove, Deputy EditorLow's albums have followed a fascinatingly diverse arc during their tenure on Sub Pop: The life-affirming electric bombast of 2005's The Great Destroyer, their first for the label, was followed by the moodier, tightly-wound and… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorThe measured tempos and fragile harmonies of the Duluth, Minnesota, trio Low — core couple Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker plus bassist Steve Garrington, who joined in 2008 — have often concealed turmoil beneath their… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorAfter taking last summer off, Wilco's Solid Sound Festival is set to hit the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art again the weekend of June 21-23. The band's carefully curated bill includes two sets from Yo La Tengo… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorYet another glaring example of the many creative minds at work within Wilco, "ARMZ" is the lead-off single from Bunny Hate Wolf, a collection of extraterrestrial instrumentals from keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen and his longtime drummer… more »
By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorLife is People is the first new record from Bill Fay since 1972, a British singer-songwriter whose beatific and keenly observed music might remind you of Randy Newman or Wilco. It's a worthy addition to… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorOne of the great, long-running mythologies in popular music is the one surrounding the integrity of the Original Lineup. There's a long-held belief that, the instant a member leaves a band, that band's work is… more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorMikael Jorgensen sorta has it made in terms of sweet gigs for a musician. As the keyboard/piano player for Wilco, he will probably spend the rest of his life being able to find cushy gigs simply… more »
By Peter Blackstock, eMusic ContributorWoody Guthrie isn't just important for his own music, but for the voices he inspired. In this list, Woody's disciples pay him back by covering some of his best-loved songs. more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorNikki Sudden, who died on this day in 2006, is one of those guys who will always have the tag of "cult musician" next to his name since he didn't sell records by the bag… more »
By Dan Ouellette, eMusic ContributorFresh from a slot performing songs at Relix magazine, violinist, songwriter and bandleader Jenny Scheinman and her Mischief & Mayhem bandmate guitarist Nels Cline are settled into the living room of her uncle's West Village… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorIt was a year full of surprising breakouts and breathtaking discoveries, with reliable favorites from familiar faces and strong entries from new voices. These are our Top 100 Records of 2011. more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorThe 2012 GRAMMY® nominations are in, and frankly, we're thrilled to see nominations for a ton of our all-time favorite artists. Scanning the list is an embarrassment of eMusic riches: Bon Iver? Nominated for Song… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorBad label deals, internal fighting, creative blockage and just plain procrastination — there are myriad reasons why albums stall on the road from concept to execution. In honor of the release of the ultimate "lost… more »
By Peter Blackstock, eMusic ContributorWhat to make of Wilco with an established lineup? The Whole Love marks three straight albums on which original members Jeff Tweedy and John Stirratt and 10-year veteran drummer Glenn Kotche have teamed with multi-instrumentalist… more »