In 1997, Wilco’s double album Being There became a fundamental pivot for the Chicago band in a decade filled with triumphs. Twenty-five years later, those songs live on in the band’s live shows, even though in the studio Wilco have traveled to a very different place. The evidence lies on Cruel Country, the band’s second […]
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‘David Bowie Is’: Rock odyssey or art-museum oddity?
“David Bowie Is” everything fantatics dreamed it would be. (Novices like it too.)
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Mayor Rahm finds his inner Woody Guthrie
Emanuel miraculously finds some TIF money to hire a few teachers—just in time for next year’s election.
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Holiday gifts for music fiends
Ten of the year’s best box sets—including 17 discs of Harry Nilsson, six decades of southeast Asian 78s, and more
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Wilco and Andrew Bird last night: Now I know you’ll be listening
Wilco and Andrew Bird at the Fifth Third Bank Ballpark
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Emptying the vault: Billy Bragg and Wilco
Nonesuch reissues the two volumes of Billy Bragg and Wilco’s Woody Guthrie project, Mermaid Avenue, with a third disc of previously unissued material.
