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  What Jay Bennett's Death Made Me Realize About Wilco

  May 29, 2009 – A few Sundays ago I hosted a Wilco listening session in my apartment. The only guest was my husband, a casual listener more conversant in Jeff Tweedy's migraines and squabbles with sidemen than the band's actual musical catalogue. As a longtime Wilco fan -- who first heard A.M. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  May 29, 2009 – This week Eminem scored the year's best-selling album, the Beastie Boys visited Jimmy Fallon, Chris Brown broke his silence, and former Wilco member Jay Bennett passed away unexpectedly. All these stories, plus the week's best editor's blogs, photo galleries, audio/video, news, and reviews, below:TOP STORIES:Eminem's 'Relapse': Best Seller of the Year The hip-hop superstar's latest nets him his fifth straight No. 1 album. …
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  Listen to Wilco's New Album!

  May 13, 2009 – Wilco's new album, the cunningly-titled Wilco (The Album), has been in constant rotation here at SPIN HQ. We love it. And now, in advance of its official June 30 release, you can hear it, too -- the Chicago band just posted a stream of the entire 11-track record to their website! …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  May 9, 2009 – SPIN cover stars No Doubt played their first concert in five years this week, kicking off a massive summer reunion tour.Meanwhile, SPIN traveled to New Jersey's Bamboozle Festival (and got all wet), Green Day unveiled plans to broadcast an intimate New York City show over the Internet, and SPIN's Charles Aaron took Eminem's latest music video to task. All these, plus the week's photo galleries, news, audio/video, and reviews, below.TOP …
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  Download: Wilco and Feist Cover Woody Guthrie

  May 4, 2009 – Wilco and Feist have teamed up to record a cover of Woody Guthrie's Depression-era song "The Jolly Banker." The remake came about at the request of Guthrie's daughter, Nora, who approached Wilco with the idea. "[She contacted us] a couple of months ago when things really started to get hairy financially and economically for the country," Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy said in a taped interview for the show Marketplace. …
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  Jeff Tweedy on Wilco's New Album, Tour

  April 17, 2009 – Wilco kicks off a 21-date U.S. tour in support of their new record June 12 in Cincinnati. …
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  New Wilco Album Nearly Done, Tour Finalized

  February 26, 2009 – Wilco fans, rejoice: The Chicago six-piece, led by singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy, are nearly finished with the follow-up to 2007's Sky Blue Sky -- and the band is looking to release the much-anticipated record in June! According to a band spokesperson, Wilco recorded much of the yet-to-be titled album last month in New Zealand -- where they were also contributing to Crowded House frontman Neil Finn's forthcoming record -- and are wrapp …
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  Springsteen, Beastie Boys, and Phish Headline Bonnaroo

  February 3, 2009 – The lineup for the eighth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has been announced -- and it's quite a doozy: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish (playing two sets), the Beastie Boys, Wilco, and Nine Inch Nails are just a few of the big-name artists scheduled to appear. The festival, set to return to the same plot of farmland outside Manchester, TN, June 11-14, will also feature performances from David Byrne, Elvis Costell …
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  Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Covers Radiohead

  January 8, 2009 – Now here's a supergroup we would love to see perform regularly. …
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  Celebs Flock to Neil Young's Tour-Closer

  December 17, 2008 – After two months on the road, rock legend Neil Young closed out his North American tour last night with a catalogue-spanning set at New York City's Madison Square Garden. …
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