Wilco's US tour behind their latest Nonesuch release, Wilco (the album), is due to wrap up this week, with a European tour slated to begin next month, after a set outside Detroit tonight and the 10,000 Lakes Festival in Minnesota on Thursday. Prior to the concerts, the Detroit Free Press talks to Nels Cline about his "head-spinning guitar pyrotechnics" and the Star Tribune talks to Jeff Tweedy about the new record and what's to come. GQ says of last Saturday's show in upstate New York that "the band has never sounded better." Buffalo News says Sunday's set in nearby Lewiston "was simply awesome ... Wilco is certainly the most interesting US band of its generation."
Wilco's US tour behind their latest Nonesuch release, Wilco (the album), is due to wrap up this week, with a European tour slated to begin next month, though not before a long sold-out set at the Royal Oak Theatre outside Detroit tonight and the headliner slot at Thursday's 10,000 Lakes Festival in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Stateside fans can rest easy as well: the band has just announced a new hometown performance at the University of Illinois, Chicago, on October 18, with tickets on sale today, and Farm Aid 2009 welcomes the band on October 4, with pre-sale tickets just released.
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Following Saturday night's performance at Dutchess Stadium in upstate Wappingers Falls, New York, GQ magazine's Tyler Thoreson says "the band has never sounded better ... So if you find yourself in the vicinity of that booming metropolis of Detroit Lakes, Minn., on Thursday night—the last stop on Wilco's summer tour—I highly recommend checking them out." Read more at men.style.com.
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On Sunday, the band performed at Art Park in Lewiston, New York, just on the Canadian border by Niagara Falls. Buffalo News pop music critic Jeff Miers asks, "Are they America’s greatest band?" His answer: "You wouldn’t be a fool if you suggested as much." Elaborating, he explains, "Wilco is certainly the most interesting US band of its generation."
From the opening numbers, "It was simply awesome," raves Miers. And by the show's encore, he confirms, "the deal was sealed. There is not likely to be a concert that matches this one’s level of creativity, energy, and musical prowess in our area this year."
Read the full concert review at buffalonews.com.
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In the above review, Miers mentions that guitarist Nels Cline "is treated—rightly so—as a god by the Wilco devout." In advance of tonight's show, Cline spoke with the Detroit Free Press about his career and his role in the band after two studio records and many live performances together now.
"If you've seen Wilco in concert over the past five years," writes Martin Bandyke in the Free Press, "your eyes and ears have no doubt been captivated by the alternative-rock band's guitarist Nels Cline ... [whose] head-spinning guitar pyrotechnics add dynamic firepower to the Chicago-based sextet."
Read the interview at freep.com.
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Leading to Thursday's tour closer at 10,000 Lakes, Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy spoke with the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Chris Riemenschneider in an extensive interview about the inspiration for the new record, the band's history, and what's still to come.
"Probably the most exciting thing for me about this record," Tweedy tells Riemenschneider, "is it feels like a really firm, sturdy foundation for what the next record's going to sound like. That's always exciting."
Read the interview at startribune.com.
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