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  WATCH: Beck, Wilco, Feist Collaborate!

  November 13, 2009 – As part of his new Record Club project, Beck has recruited friends like MGMT, Devendra Banhart, and Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale to cover entire albums from the Velvet Underground and Leonard Cohen. For his latest installment, he tapped Wilco, Feist, and Jamie Lidell to take on Oar, a 1969 cult favorite by onetime Moby Grape/Jefferson Airplane member Skip Spence. Watch the all-star crew play its opening track "Little Hands" below! B …
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  Exclusive: Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Rocks Out with His Sons!

  July 23, 2009 – You've heard of The Basement Tapes, but what about The Bedroom Jam?While SPIN's photographer was shooting Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy at his Chicago home for our August cover story, the rock dad took a break from posing to jam with some fellow musicians -- his two sons, Sam, 9, and Spencer, 13.If the video below is any indication, Tweedy's sons have inherited their father's knack for rock'n'roll. …
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• Wilco, 'Wilco (the album)' (Nonesuch)

  July 19, 2009 – As far as rock'n'roll is concerned, status quo is for suckers. New boss same as the old boss? fuck 'em both. Accordingly, in their own insular way, Wilco have spent their 15-year existence struggling against stasis. Whether it's alt-country, '70s-influenced chamber pop, Woody Guthrie covers, or Radiohead-refracted Americana, frontman Jeff Tweedy has felt compelled to dress his innate tunefulness in all manner of disguise. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  July 18, 2009 – This week, Courtney Love took to Twitter to lob insults at former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson, Modest Mouse debuted a new song exclusively on SPIN.com, and reality star / aspiring rapper Spencer Pratt claimed to have more street cred than Jay-Z. These stories, plus the week's top news, photo galleries, audio/video, and live reviews, below.TOP STORIES:Courtney Love to Eric Erlandson: "Hole is MY Band!" The alt-rock queen fires back a …
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  Wilco, Frankly.

  July 17, 2009 – School's out. For. Wednesday. It's three o'clock on the kind of perfect spring day winter-hardened Chicagoans pray for as Jeff Tweedy's black minivan stops in front of a drab, stocky building, tailor-made to instill institutional heebie-jeebies. This used to be a Catholic school, but now it's a Montessori, all full of warmth and encouragement on the inside. …
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  WATCH: Wilco and Feist Duet on 'Letterman'

  July 15, 2009 – Few things in music are as charming as a duet, especially when it's between Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Feist. Tuesday night, the day after performing with Feist, Yo La Tengo, and Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste at Brooklyn's Coney Island, Wilco and the "1234" singer played Wilco (the album)'s countrified duet "You and I" on The Late Show with David Letterman -- and the performance is heartwarming, with Tweedy and Feist trading lyrics of love bet …
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  Watch: Wilco Join Grizzly Bear, Feist Live

  July 14, 2009 – Wilco's live shows are predictably superb. But even by that dependable standard, the Chicago band's performance at ConeyIsland's KeySpan Ballpark (home of the rookie league Brooklyn Cyclones!) Monday night was on a higher level -- and featured an a all-star jam with Feist, Grizzly'sEd Droste, and Yo La Tengo! Watch video below. …
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  Mariah Carey's Eminem Costume, Mark McGrath's Advice for Obama

  July 2, 2009 – Here's some of the strangest music news the Internet had to offer this week: Is that Eminem... or Mariah Carey? Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? [Entertainment Weekly] Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath, of all people, thinks he has advice for Obama about quitting smoking cigarettes. [iReport] Singer/songwriter Jens Lekman returned to his native Sweden with a little souvenir from his time spent touring South America -- swine flu! …
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  New Albums from Wilco, Moby, and More

  June 30, 2009 – Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today: Wilco, Wilco (The Album)Jeff Tweedy's reassuring songbook helps us accept life's never-ending flaws. Read Review >> Moby, Wait For MeWayward digital auteur finds beauty in gloom. …
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  Bonnaroo Day 3: The Best & the Worst

  June 14, 2009 – THE BEST Best Audience Love: Jenny LewisJenny Lewis didn't need to tell her audience that they were "rad" to win them over in That Tent on Saturday. With most of the young women in the crowd singing along to every song, and most of the men otherwise smitten with the charismatic redhead, this wasn't your typical half-curious, half-committed crowd -- just about everyone was there to see Lewis. And why not? …
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