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11th May 2017 - Add Comment - Tweet

Wilco - What's Your 20?

Wilco have clocked up an impressive 20 years since their first gig in 1994, as The Black Shampoo. For their 20th anniversary, they are relased a retrospective best-of, plus a 4 disc set of rarities. Out in the UK on Dec 1st.

Epic timeline below.

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• May 1, 1994 - Uncle Tupelo performs its last show as a band at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis, MO.

• May 1994 - After Uncle Tupelo's split, Jeff Tweedy, Max Johnston, Ken Coomer and John Stirratt carry on as Wilco. Factoid #1: Before arriving at Wilco as the band's name, they considered calling themselves "National Dust."

• August 1994 - The sessions for what would become Wilco's debut album, A.M. begin with Brian Paulson as producer for Reprise Records. (Paulson handled similar duties for Uncle Tupelo's final album, Anodyne.) The Bottle Rockets' Brian Henneman, formerly a guitar tech for Uncle Tupelo, plays lead guitar on the album (and clinking bottles on "Casino Queen"). Jay Bennett joins the band after recording finishes.

• September 13, 1994 - The first released Wilco recording, a collaboration with Syd Straw on the Ernest Tubb song "The T.B. is Whipping Me," debuts on the benefit album Red, Hot + Country.

• November 17, 1994 - Performing as "Black Shampoo," Wilco make its live debut at Cicero's in St. Louis, MO.

• March 28, 1995 - Wilco releases A.M., touring extensively behind it.

• October 29, 1996 - The double-disc Being There is released. Bob Egan joins the band
during recording, while Max Johnston leaves afterwards.

• November 1997 - The band spends a week at Willie Nelson's Texas studio Pedenales
working on demos for songs that would eventually appear on Summerteeth.

• December 1997 - The band take occupancy of The Loft, the Chicago space that they
record and practice in to this day.

• January 1998 - Mermaid Avenue recording sessions begin in Dublin with
singer/songwriter Billy Bragg after a trial run in Chicago the month before. The album
brings to life previously unrecorded lyrics by Woody Guthrie.

• June 23, 1998 - Mermaid Avenue is released and eventually nominated for a GRAMMY
in the category of Best Contemporary Folk album. Bob Egan leaves the band and Leroy
Bach joins.

• March 9, 1999 - Summerteeth is released, taking another jump ahead of expectations.
More songs are recorded for eventual inclusion on Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2.

• January 9, 2000 – The band’s last show at Lounge Ax, the late, great Chicago music
venue co-owned by Tweedy's wife Sue Miller Tweedy and Julia Adams.

• May 30, 2000 - Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 debuts, featuring new Guthrie songs from Wilco
as well as others by the band and Bragg that didn't make the first record.

• January 2001 - Coomer leaves the band not long before cameras begin rolling on Sam Jones' documentary about Yankee Hotel Foxtrot's recording. Glenn Kotche, who had begun working with Tweedy on side projects and live shows, joins.

• June/July 2001 - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is turned in to Reprise Records and initially met with dismay and silence. Management begins a delicate back and forth with the label to extricate the band from its recording contract. The band eventually leaves Reprise with the album, no strings attached, to shop around elsewhere.

• July 4, 2001 – Wilco headlines WXPN’s Fourth of July concert in Chicago's Grant Park; unbeknownst to anyone at the time, this will be Jay Bennett’s last show with the band.

• August 16, 2001 - Jay Bennett leaves Wilco.

• September 10, 2001 - Scott McCaughey visits Chicago and enlists Wilco to back him up
on the latest album by his project The Minus 5. The album, titled Down With Wilco, is
released on Yep Roc Records on February 25, 2003.

• September 18, 2001 - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot begins streaming for free on Wilcoworld.net,
a practice the band also employs on future recordings. Tour plans are made featuring Tweedy, Stirratt, Kotche and Bach, re-configuring the band’s live performance in the wake of Bennett's departure.

• April 23, 2002 - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot arrives in stores via Nonesuch Records. The album goes on to be certified Gold (sales in excess of 500,000) by the RIAA and remains to this day the band’s best-selling album.

• July 26, 2002 – Sam Jones' documentary on the recording of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, entitled I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, opens in select theaters. Also that year, Mikael Jorgensen begins working with the band, first in the capacity of sound mixer, later adding keyboardist to his duties.

• November 2003 - Work begins in New York City on A Ghost Is Born with producer Jim O'Rourke.

• January 28, 2004 - Leroy Bach's departure is announced.

• March 4, 2004 - Pat Sansone and Nels Cline join the band.

• April 2004 – Tweedy enters rehab to treat an addition to painkillers; A Ghost is Born
release is delayed.

• May 19, 2004 - The first live performance with the new lineup (which is now Tweedy,
Stirratt, Kotche, Jorgensen, Cline & Sansone) debuts at Otto's in Dekalb, IL. The lineup
remains current.

• June 15, 2004 - Greg Kot's bio on the band, Learning How To Die, hits bookstores.

• June 21, 2004 - A Ghost is Born is released. Factoid #2: Alternate title considered: Wilco
Happens.

• November 2, 2004 - The band releases The Wilco Book, capturing Wilco in pictorial, literary and musical form.

• December 31, 2004 – Wilco headlines Madison Square Garden, sharing a bill with Sleater-Kinney and The Flaming Lips. They close the show, in their pajamas, with a post- midnight covers-set including “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”

• February 13, 2005 – A Ghost is Born wins Best Alternative Music Album at the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards.

• November 15, 2005 - Kicking Television: Live in Chicago, the band's first live album, is released, featuring tracks recorded over the course of four shows at Chicago’s Vic Theater.

• May 15, 2007 - The first studio album to feature Cline and Sansone, Sky Blue Sky, is released. It debuts at #4 on the Billboard charts and is nominated for a Best Rock Album GRAMMY.

• September 12, 2007 - Wilco performs first ticketed show at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park. The show is a benefit and raises more than $100,000 for the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.

• February 15 – 20, 2008 - The band plays every song from every one of their albums over a five-night residency at the Riviera in Chicago.

• March 1, 2008 – Wilco performs “Walken’” and “Hate It Here” on Saturday Night Live. Ellen Page hosts.

• April 28, 2009 - Wilco: Live - Ashes of American Flags, a concert film from directors Christoph Green and Brendan Canty following the band from Tulsa, OK to Washington D.C. on their 2008 tour, is released on DVD.

• May 2009 - Former Wilco member Jay Bennett passes away at his home in Illinois. A statement from the band remembers Bennett as a "truly unique and gifted human being."

• June 30, 2009 - The band gets meta with the release of Wilco (The Album) and its lead single "Wilco (The Song)." Like Sky Blue Sky, Wilco (The Album) debuts at #4 on the Billboard charts. Wilco receives a GRAMMY nomination for Best Americana Album.

• July 2009 – Jeff Tweedy appears on the cover of SPIN magazine.

• January 29, 2010 – Wilco performs Buffalo Springfield’s “Broken Arrow” at MusiCares
2010 Person of the Year concert honoring Neil Young. SPIN calls the performance
“brilliant,” and one that “revealed a band in complete control of its capabilities.”

• August 13 – 15, 2010 - Wilco kicks off the inaugural Solid Sound Festival at the
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The festival features band members' side
projects, as well as other artist-friends like Mavis Staples.

• January 2011 - The band announces the creation of its own label, dBpm Records after
their contract with Nonesuch ends. The label's first release is the Wilco single "I Might"

with a B-side cover of Nick Lowe's "I Love My Label," first released at Solid Sound
Festival. Factoid #3: dBpm had been kicked around as a possible album title for years.
• September 27, 2011 - The Whole Love, the band's debut album for its label dBpm
Records, hits the Billboard charts at #5 and receives a Grammy nomination for Best Rock
Album.

• November 23, 2011 – Rolling Stone names Nels Cline one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists
of all time.

• April 21, 2012 - Timed for Record Store Day and to commemorate Woody Guthrie's
100th birthday, Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, a vinyl box set (which includes the first two volumes, a third collecting unreleased songs, as well as a DVD of the documentary, Man In the Sand) is released. Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 3 is also released digitally.

• July 8, 2012 - Wilco plays largest headlining show (to date), performing to 15k+ fans at Chicagoland's Kane County Cougars 5/3 Bank Ballpark. The show coincides with the breaking of a Midwest heat wave that saw Chicagoans sweltering through multiple days of record-breaking temperatures exceeding 100-degrees.

• June 21, 2013 – Wilco plays an all-request covers set during the opening night of the 2013 Solid Sound Festival. Songs performed include Television’s “Marquee Moon,” Abba’s “Waterloo” and Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.” Tommy Stintson joins for a cover of The Replacements “Color Me Impressed.”

• June 26, 2013 – Wilco joins Bob Dylan’s AmericanaramA tour. The band welcomes several guests to the stage throughout the tour including Government Mule’s Warren Haynes, Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter and The Band’s Garth Hudson.

• November 17, 2014 – Exactly twenty years to the day since Wilco’s first performance (as Black Shampoo) Nonesuch Records releases two Wilco collections: The first, Alpha Mike Foxtrot, a 4-CD, 4-LP/Digital box set amassing rare studio and live recordings from the band's archives, and the second, What's Your 20?, is a 2-CD/Digital compilation of essential tracks culled from the band's previously released studio recordings.

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28th Nov 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Boiler Room: Matthew Herbert

#brtv A good piece of radio on the TV - Herbert playing a tiny selection of the British Library's vast sound library (possibly the first Boiler Room without any sweaty ravers trying to get in shot).

Matthew Herbert will be working through the British Library's Sound Archive, creating a playlist from a selection of digitised music, sound and spoken word taken from the Library's collection of 5 million unique sound recordings, 1.7 million physical carriers and more than 40 formats. The show will be presented from the Sound Archive's transfer studios at the British Library in London. The recordings heard on the show are accessible on the Library's http://sounds.bl.uk/ website.

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16th May 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Beautiful Noise

"If Nancy Sinatra had Einstürzende Neubauten as a backing band, that's kinda like how we wanted to sound." Trailer for the Kickstarter music doc Beautiful Noise joining the dots between Cocteau Twins, Jesus And Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine - premiering at the Seattle Film Festival May 31, and playing at the Sheffield Doc Fest 8 June and the East End Film Festival in June.

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13th May 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

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2013: Best Stuff

Pop culture's not sport, so these aren't in order (and some of them are probably in the "consumed this year" category).

MUSIC

Phosphorescent - Muchacho; White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade; The Cave Singers - Naomi; Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Dream; Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

TV

Utopia; Breaking Bad (S5); Eastbound & Down (S4); Boardwalk Empire (S4); The Returned; The Fall; Arrow (S2); Orange Is The New Black; House Of Cards; The Walking Dead (S3); Game Of Thrones (S3); Top Of The Lake; Girls; Hannibal

FILM

Upstream Color, Computer Chess, Gravity, Robot & Frank; Margin Call; Sound Of My Voice; Another Earth; Django Unchained; Zero Dark Thirty

BOOKS & COMICS 

The Kills - Richard House; Nemo: Heart Of Ice - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

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10th Dec 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Matthew Herbert: The End Of Silence

New Herbert album available on Bandcamp. 

Following on from Matthew Herbert’s ‘One’ trilogy - One One, One Club and One Pig - ‘The End Of Silence’ takes the idea of a single sound source to its logical conclusion by utilizing only one five second audio recording as the sole source for the whole album.

Matthew was emailed a recording made by photographer Sebastian Meyer during the battle of Ras Lanuf in Libya on 11th March 2011. In the brief recording, a pro-Gadaffi plane can be heard approaching, a whistled warning, a shout and then, as if from nowhere, a bomb. It is this recording that makes up the entirety of this record.

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10th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: Beck - Sound + Vision

Beck covers the Bowie track with a 157-piece orchestra

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11th Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: The East

Promising trailer for The East - the follow up to the excellent Sound of My Voice from Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling. Looks like they're stepping things up, with a cast that includes Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Julia Ormond and Patricia Clarkson

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25th Jan 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Sound City

Dave Grohl puts on his director's hat for this doc about Sound City, an analogue recording studio in San Fernando Valley that produced classic albums from Tom Petty (Southern Accents), Fleetwood Mac (Rumors), Neil Young (After The Gold Rush), QOTSA (Queens of the Stone Age) and Nirvana (Nevermind). Comes with a new album - including that Paul McCartney / rest of Nirvana song they've been playing recently (so that's what brought them together in the first place).

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17th Dec 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

It's Solo Life, Yim, But Not As We Know It

My Morning Jacket's Jim James is benching his Yim Yames persona for next solo outing Regions Of Light And Sound Of God. First track Know Til Know is up at Pitchfork. No capes spotted so far.

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12th Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP Terry Callier

The soul, folk, jazz legend died in Chicago yesterday. Here's two great tracks that showcase his talent for setting a mood and taking it as far as it can go: I'm A Drifter from 1968's The New Folk Sound Of Terry Callier and Lazarus Man from Timepiece, his 1998 comeback.

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29th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Sound & Vision X Shepard Fairey X London

The @Obeygiant head honcho is back with a Bowie-inspired show at Stolen Space Gallery in London's Truman Brewery 19 Oct.

The Sound and Vision art show includes mixed media works on canvas weaving my social commentary with inspiration from a range of musicians, including the Sex Pistols, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Gang of Four, the Clash, the Circle Jerks, Kraftwerk, Public Enemy, Neil Young, and Metallica. Sound and Vision will also include an installation of a record store environment, with customized vintage turntables and a portion of my own record collection for public listening. The record store space will also showcase over 80 12″x12″ images I’ve created as tributes to the 12″ LP sleeve. A comprehensive variety of other works will be featured, including screen prints on wood, metal, and paper; rubylith cuts; and retired stencils.
- Shepard

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5th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Centipede Hz Stream

the new Animal Collective album is streaming here. Preorders here. Doesn't sound much like that 90s cyber-rave cover suggests

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23rd Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Cloud Atlas / Life Of Pi

Ready for a new round of films based on mega-blockbuster books? Here's Cloud Atlas from the Wachowskis and Life Of Pi from Ang Lee. Cloud Atlas has an epic cast - Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Keith David, Jim Broadbent, James D'Arcy, Doona Bae; Pi's got a tiger

UPDATE: here's the full Quicktime HD Cloud Atlas trailer

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26th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Beck - Sound Shapes

trailer for Sound Shapes, a Playstation game that features 3 new Beck songs

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23rd Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

First Look: Pacific Rim/ Elysium

Twitch have got pics of Charlie Humman, Rinko Kikuchi and Idris Elba in Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming mecha-robots v monsters sci-fi Pacfic Rim; and a look at Matt Damon getting all Bruce Willis in Neill "District 9" Blomkamp's Elysium (a future where the rich live on a satellite orbiting Earth). Like the sound of both, intrigued to see what Del Toro does with a plot that sounds very close to late 70s/early 80s anime classic Gundam.

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6th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Sound Of Noise

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20th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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fIREHOSE rEUNION

More info on that fIREHOSE reunion: Consequence of Sound are reporting that as well as playing at Coachella, the band will reunite after 18 years for a US tour. Which makes me 18+ years older than I thought, as me and Cnrth saw them at the Marquee in 1991-ish.

Needless Natas Kaupas plug below.

fIREHOSE 2012 Tour Dates:
04/05 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
04/06 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
04/07 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
04/09 – Bellingham, WA @ Wild Buffalo House of Music
04/10 – Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
04/11 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
04/12 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Historic Coconut Grove Ballroom *
04/13 – Fresno, CA @ Fulton 55
04/14 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival
04/17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *
04/18 – Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre *
04/19 – Tucson, AZ @ Plush
04/20 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival

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13th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Cornelius v Salyu X Salyu

Missed this last year, looks like missing-in-action chimp-lover Cornelius has collaborated on S(o)un(d)beams, an album with singer Salyu (aka Lily Chou-Chou) - first full-length project since 2006's Sensuous? His Twitter feed @corneliusjapan is mostly in Japanese obviously, but it's worth checking the links if you're a fan 

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5th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Wall Of Sound

Album art is the true loser in the digital music war, so it's nice now and then to flick through your music using the Wall of Sound app. The image above is a random slice of my collection. Not bad if I do say so myself, which reminds me I haven't listened to Candy Apple Grey in a while.

Bonus points to anyone who can name all the others.

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21st Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Radiohead TKOL RMX

More Radiohead activity - King Of Limbs remix album TKOL RMX is out on Monday, and they played Lotus Flower and Staircase on SNL this weekend, introduced by Alec Baldwin. Here's the vowel-defying tracklist:

1. Little By Little (Caribou RMX)
2. Lotus Flower (Jacques Greene RMX)
3. Morning Mr Magpie (Nathan Fake RMX)
4. Bloom (Harmonic 313 RMX)
5. Bloom (Mark Pritchard RMX)
6. Feral (Lone RMX)
7. Morning Mr Magpie (Pearson Sound Scavenger RMX)
8. Separator (Four Tet RMX)
9. Give Up The Ghost (Thriller Houseghost RMX)
10. Codex (Illum Sphere RMX)
11. Little By Little (Shed RMX)
12. Give Up The Ghost (Brokenchord RMX)
13. TKOL (Altrice RMX)
14. Bloom (Blawan RMX)
15. Good Evening Mrs Magpie (Modeselektor RMX)
16. Bloom (Object RMX)
17. Bloom (Jamie xx Rework)
18. Separator (Anstam RMX)
19. Lotus Flower (SBTRKT RMX)

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25th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet