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Flavorpill Guide to the Week’s Top 10 SF Events
San Francisco is home to a breathtaking diversity of cultural events. Between our fair city’s world-class museums, restaurants, bars, art galleries, music scene, festivals, and clubs, between all that...
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20 Dad-Rock Albums You Should Learn to Love
Dad-rock (n.): 1. (lit.) music played by dads; 2. music made by old white dudes that somehow always ends up on the car stereo and/or being played on the hi-fi at various school friends’ houses. Both...
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25 Alternative Summer Anthems
As classic an earworm as Bananarama’s “Cruel Summer” is, one cannot subsist on it alone all season long. “Boys of Summer” has lost its charm by the end of June. And with all due respect, The Beach...
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The 5 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: Jenny Lewis, Jeff Tweedy
Let’s call this week’s edition of our best new music column “your high school indie idols making good.” Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy released excellent new singles that speak to...
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How I Schooled My Dad-Rock Dad on Music
My dad has done many things for me, chief among them conceiving, raising, and providing for me in a home full of love and humor. But if I had to pinpoint the greatest gift my father ever gave me, I’d...
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Where to Start with the 13,000 Concert Videos in YouTube’s Music Vault
Last week, YouTube announced a partnership with Music Vault that brought thousands of remastered, high-quality live performances to the platform. More than 13,000 of these concert clips, to be exact,...
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Nick Offerman Directed a Hilarious Tweedy Video Featuring Michael Shannon,...
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy’s dad-rock project — literally, it is a collaboration with his 18-year-old son, Spencer — Tweedy has spawned one of the year’s most wonderful, star-studded music videos....
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Wilco Celebrated Their 20th Anniversary with Jimmy Fallon
Wilco, the indie-rock heroes who came together in 1994, celebrated their twentieth anniversary last night with several live shows on Fallon. Jeff Tweedy, the band’s lead singer, has primarily been...
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Pitchfork Music Festival Announces Lineup ft. Sleater Kinney, Wilco, Run the...
It seems like just yesterday that Pitchfork was dipping its gnarly, taste-making toes into the festival waters, but 2015 will be the tenth year for the annual music festival. The lineup for the fest,...
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Wilco Release New Album ‘Star Wars’ for Free Download
Surprise-releasing: everyone’s doing it! “Everyone” now includes Wilco, who just posted a new album, entitled Star Wars, for free download right here. As per the description on the site, the album...
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Literary Mixtape: Seymour Glass
If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble, or hallucinated a soundtrack to go along with your...
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Watch a Wilco Music Video Starring Tavi Gevinson
It seems unlikely that Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and teen fashion blogger-turned-media empress Tavi Gevinson travel in the same social circles. And yet, here is Tavi, starring in the music video for...
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10 of the Best Animated Music Videos Ever
Wilco’s new video for “Dawned on Me” combines some of the things dearest to our hearts: Jeff Tweedy and old black-and-white Popeye shorts. It’s a clip that’s both fun and visually interesting, not to...
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Wilco, Shcmilco: Jeff Tweedy and Co. Have a New Album on the Way
As reported on Pitchfork this morning, there’s a new Wilco album on the way. And hey, that headline isn’t (just) your correspondent sharing his general feeling of mehness in regard to the band — in the...
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Wilco Releases “All Lives, You Say?” In Response to Charlottesville Violence
Wilco has never been a particularly political band, at least in terms of overt song content – but like a lot of Americans, they’ve had a bit of an awakening since November 9, and have become much more...
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Hear a Mid-’90s Wilco Outtake, From the ‘Being There’ Deluxe Edition
Wilco’s first two records, A.M. and Being There, remain classics in the alt.country subgenre, firmly establishing the group’s style and sound (or, at least, its initial iteration of them). It’s also...
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