.............Sometimes its gotta be live. Sometimes a song conceived in the studio is reborn on stage. Sometimes a good song becomes a great song as the artists find new ambient pathways within melody, rhythm, & lyrical interpretation. Not so much a reimagining as a reexamination, a revisiting. A celebration of intent over imitation....At Least Thats What You Said is a good case in point. The ...
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From the band to fans: "Well, we made it nearly a month with copies of Wilco (the album) floating around out there before it leaked. Pretty impressive restraint in this day and age. But the inevitable happened last night. Since we know you're curious and probably have better things to do than scour the internet for a download (though we do understand the attraction of the illicit), we've posted...
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Further proof has come up that there are some people in this world who should not be allowed to talk, let alone think. A faith besed Ministry who calls themselves Love God's Way has released a list of "gay bands" and "safe bands". This is an organization that has a section of their website called C.H.O.P.S which stands for Changing Homosexuals into Ordinary People. Don't believe me that this ki...
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Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy responded yesterday to the lawsuit filed against him by former Wilco member Jay Bennett. Bennett is suing Wilco for royalties he says he never received for participating on epic Wilco albums "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and "Being There." The damages are specified in the lawsuit as "at least $50,000." Bennett also wants the dough for having his face splashed all over the b...
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While Lollapalooza ticket holders were coming down from Wilco's Saturday night performance at the fest, Chicago Cub fans were experiencing one of the greatest Wilco performances ever Sunday midday at Wrigley Field. Nuff said. A Jeff Tweedy interview follows the seventh inning stretch. Shout out to my pal and Wilco diehard Dan Fetter for sending me the link!
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"Humor":http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24148 can be funny. Something that makes me laugh and slap my leg, can make another want to slap me. I accept that, hell I embrace it. I have said it often; Humor is my sword and my shield.I shall not defend Ms Coulter, she doesn't need defending. I've heard her called some vile and vicious names, even here on the MOG, and I've never understood ...
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LOLLA DAY 2: August 2nd, 2008. The heat had simmered down, the hang-over had begun to set in, and everyone's feet were sore. Like grumpy children on the first day of school, the spectators began to dribble in mid-afternoon. Regardless, it took only a few hours, a few beers and an ecclectic mix of Greek/slavic rumblings from Devotchka, Spankrock's raucous rapping and modern Jazz from Jamie Lidel...
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friday night, myself and a slew of moggers (spencer, kate, supertopsecret, steve simon, gabe adiv, kb to name a few) went up to the greek theatre to see wilco.having seen dead shows at the greek in the 80's, it's always been one of my favorite venus and to now work and live 5 minutes away is real privilege. the night was warm, the crowd beautiful.the addition of nels cline as lead guitarist has...
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Being on MOG has given me plenty of opportunities to read about great concerts. Many of the reviews make it so I wish I could have been standing in the crowd with the rest of the audience. After reading that Helen, Neill, Terry, Mike and Anna would be going to an incredible show in the not so distant future, I started to think of all the shows that I had been to over the course of my lifetime. ...
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Now that Wilco has taken all the proper album release steps (touring, late night television, internet interview invasion, etc.) and the well of Wilco [The Album] puns has finally run dry, Jeff Tweedy and company are ready to bang out Wilco [The...
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So I got to see Wilco last night. While it was against my better judgement and against my bank account to do so, it will be a night that I won't soon forget. Matt and I had talked about this show for a long time. All spring and summer, in fact. With all of the shows and all of the vacations that were to be squeezed in this summer, a little Wilco show in the Berkshires was probably not go...
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Good to see this festival still alive and kicking. 10,000 Lakes Music Festival, the festival based up in Northern Minnesota's lakes region has announced it's line-up ...quite early. The fest doesn't take place till July 22nd-25th weekend at Soo Pass Ranch in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, which leaves me scratching my head as to why Coachella, a fest that goes down every April, hasn't revealed its g...
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Once again it seems the new Wilco album has been leaked onto the internet well before its May 15 release date. This is not the first time this has happened to Wilco. The group’s 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was the first to fall prey to this new affliction, then 2004’s A Ghost Is Born followed the same problem.As Billboard reports, fans of the group have attempted to make good of the unfor
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Received an email from Wilco HQ that their Washington DC concert will be streamed live tonight.John Doe(of the legendary band X) will be opening starting at 8:00 pm EST. Go to the NPR website NPR.org to stream the concert "*here*":http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19271953Also the email says that Wilco will be performing on NBC's Saturday Night Live this coming saturday, so ...
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I successfully made it through storytime and bed for my 3.5 YO daughter. We read some old nursery rhymes and the first Babar book. If you are unfamiliar, an elephant's mom gets killed, he goes to the big French looking city and gets outfitted with a green suit, marries his cousin and returns to the bush in a red sportscar to be crowned king. Pretty scandalous colonial stuff there.The true chall...
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