NEWS: Wilco (the album stream)

Wilco (the band) is now streaming Wilco (the album) on Wilco (the website), nearly a month and a half before it's official release! We've been hearing Wilco (the song) for awhile, but now we can finally hear the rest of the hump-backed record in all it's eponymous glory. Despite the goofy cover art it seems to follow fairly closely in Sky Blue Sky's footsteps, keeping it pretty mellow overall, with lots of opportunities to show off Nels Cline's noodling, and at least one chance to show off some Feist (see "You and I"). First impressions? It's good.

Stream it HERE.

NEWS: WiAC on Break Thru Radio!

Hey this is exciting! The good folks over at Break Thru Radio are going to be featuring our humble blog all this week as part of their Anatomy of a Blogger program. They're publishing a post of ours each day this week, starting today with our post on Pree, the charming little act out of DC (go to "Articles", then "Blogger of the Week" to see it, or go HERE).

Then on Thursday they'll be streaming a radio show featuring us and a bunch of bands we picked out for you. So check back each day and we'll keep you posted...

mp3: Wilco - Radio Cure
from the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (iTunes)


mp3: Shugo Tokumaru - La La Radio
from the album EXIT (iTunes)

NEWS: If you like good music AND making a difference, this is for you

Here are three things I love:

1) Bob Dylan in general

2) Jeff Tweedy's lilting voice

3) everyone's favorite choral chamber pop group, Fleet Foxes

You may have heard that these three things were combined in glorious fashion this summer as the latter two covered a song by the former during their recent tour together. Now, they're offering an mp3 of that little bit of magic for FREE over at Wilco's website - all you have to do is pledge to vote in the up-coming election (click here to go and do it). Classy on just about every front.

And here are a couple of other Dylan covers that I happen to love. They're both a couple years old, but are still pretty great. Enjoy.

Magnet (with Gemma Hayes) - Lay Lady Lay

from the album On Your Side (Amazon/iTunes)

Madeleine Peyroux - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

from the album Careless Love (Amazon/iTunes)