Results tagged “wilco”

Cape Music Gritty chanteuse Aimee Mann drives sideways into the Cape Cod Melody Tent, rewarding all those who drove fueled by cigarettes and red vines to see her. With Duncan Sheik, the guy who can barely breathe. Cape Cod Melody Tent (21 West Main Street, Hyannis), 8pm, $35+. more ›

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market... more ›

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom... more ›

If you're not into traveling all the way to the Tweeter Center for Journey and Def Leopard, check out this week's picks. Even if you are into heading down to the big name act's show you'll need something to do the rest of the week. There's no joking about it this week. Fall is here. By the time the weekend hits it's time to break out the cider and make some pumpkin pie. We're saving that for Sunday, however, the rest of the week is for music. more ›

The temperature heats up a little this week. There will be a bit more humidity in the air. But unlike last week we're not going to be engaged in the same mad-dash around the city every night to catch all the good music. This week we can take our pick, settle in with a pint, and catch the good tunes at a single venue. Fantastic line-ups mark this weeks picks. From the opening band... more ›

We’ve been digging out all day. After we held our ground on the second floor yesterday only to find that our exterior door was all but snowed shut when it was time to go to work this morning. A bit of shoveling later we’re turning to warm hearts not cold snow. There's a good week ahead of us, temperatures are due to rise, indoors and out. Dinner reservations are hard to come by for tomorrow, and $54 prix fixe is steep. Bostonist has another plan: grab a bottle of Mad Dog, a paper bag, and hop the T for one of this week’s music agenda shows: more ›

Tweedy opened the show with the slow, harmonica-accented confessional “Sunken Treasure,” which has been a longtime staple of the singer-songwriter’s sporadic solo tours, as well as a recurring encore when a full lineup is together. This immediate statement highlighted the fact that Jeff’s solo tour is the perfect opportunity for old-school Wilco fans to get their fill of the folkier, alt-country history that first endeared the songwriter to our hearts. That said, the singer is clearly proud of his last three studio offerings since 1996’s Being There, the double album alt-country masterpiece that preceded forays into Beach Boys sunshine pop, Radiohead sound explorations, and avant-pop/krautrock, as well as mass popularity and dissention among Wilco’s previous fan base. The truth remains, though, that Summerteeth isn’t all sunshine, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot isn’t all stuttering electronics and cynicism, and 2004’s A Ghost Is Born retains a classic rock feel for many of the tracks. Tweedy’s has been a uniquely-inspired, self-challenging voice in music, and his solo show reflected this eclecticism while emphasizing the great songwriting beneath each direction his career has taken. more ›