bonus audio, Conversations, interviews, Jeff Tweedy, music, Washington Post, wilco
In Uncategorized on July 8, 2009 at 09:30
Jeff Tweedy maintains that Wilco is a collaborative enterprise, though he's the man who wears the hat.
I conducted this interview with Jeff Tweedy on June 17. It was excerpted for a “Conversations” box that appeared in the Paper of Record on Sunday, July 5. Here’s the interview in something close to its entirety, albeit lightly edited for clarity; it’s up on Post Rock, too. Wilco are at Wolf Trap tonight with Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band.
There are bands that have sold more records during the past decade than Wilco, but few have been the subject of more discussion among rock’s cognoscenti. Guided by the songs and voice of Jeff Tweedy, 41, every Wilco album since 1996’s Being There, (with the arguable exception of 2007’s Sky Blue Sky) has explored new subjects, textures, and song structures.
music, The Washington Post, Post Rock, Wolf Trap, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, The Simpsons
In Uncategorized on July 4, 2009 at 07:15
We’ll just get this out of the way, music lovers: Tony Bennett is, er, classic. As in: He was discovered by one Bob Hope. He’s got more years onstage than all the guys in Animal Collective put together. His guest appearance on The Simpsons was way back in Season Two.
So, yes. He is advanced. Eighty-two, in Earth years. But when he crooned “The Best Is Yet to Come” at Wolf Trap Thursday night, how could you not believe him?
Aung San Suu Kyi U2 360 Tour, Bono, megalomania, music, political activisim, U2
In Uncategorized on June 30, 2009 at 00:15
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese agitator for Democracy, is now Aung San Suu Kyi, the Halloween mask.
U2’s big — stadiums-only big — tour opens in Barcelona tomorrow night.
