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Concert Review: Wilco/Nick Lowe
It’s appropriate that Wilco’s multi-concert residency in their hometown of Chicago was scheduled for December. The first of the band’s five sold-out shows felt like a huge holiday gift for their large fan base.
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The Top 20 Albums of 2011
20. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life [Matador] The most ambitious band to vaguely fit under the description of “hardcore punk” since Refused dissolved, Toronto sextet Fucked Up have outdone themselves with this
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Top 25 Songs of 2011
25. St. Vincent – “Surgeon” [4AD] To know Annie Clark is to love her. The versatile songstress and musician has been making indie hearts melt since her time with the Polyphonic Spree, and her
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Concert Review: Nick Lowe
St. Louis’ Kiel Opera House shut its doors in 1991 after a nearly 60-year run that included everything from operatic performances to rock shows by Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones to high school
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Wilco: The Whole Love
Let’s just get this out of the way: The Whole Love is Wilco’s best album since 2004′s A Ghost Is Born. After the slight but pleasant enough acoustic doodles of Sky Blue Sky, the
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Concert Review: Jeff Tweedy/Snowblink
It had been about 10 years since Jeff Tweedy last made a solo acoustic stop in Toronto; you could sense the anticipation outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre- a small venue usually reserved for stage
Read More »Concert Review: Wilco/Califone
It’s hard to believe that it has been 14 years since I learned about Wilco when my college paper editor assigned me Being There as a last minute album review. During those 14 years
Read More »Wilco: Wilco (The Album)
Wilco Wilco (The Album) Rating: 4.0 Label: Nonesuch Wilco’s earliest records were exploratory affairs; the simple alt-country of 1995′s A.M. barely prepared listeners for the triumphant genre bending they’d explore on 1996′s double-LP masterpiece
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