Jeff Tweedy

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Holiday Guide: Yo La Tengo Celebrates 10 Years of Hanukkah Miracles

Next year, in Hoboken

moe.

Next year, in Hoboken

Q&A: Deerhoof's Greg Saunier On Keeping Communication Open, Releasing A 7-Inch With Jeff Tweedy, And Finding Beauty On The G Train Platform

After a recent boisterous and discordant performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Deerhoof's dressing room briefly felt like the center of the indie universe. Hanging out and sipping on the beer and wine that usually go to waste (Deerhoof is more of a tea-swilling bunch) were members of The Di ... More >>

Jay Farrar

After a recent boisterous and discordant performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Deerhoof's dressing room briefly felt like the center of the indie universe. Hanging out and sipping on the beer and wine that usually go to waste (Deerhoof is more of a tea-swilling bunch) were members of The Di ... More >>

Live: Wilco Braves The Elements In Central Park

Wilco w/Nick Lowe Central Park SummerStage Friday, September 23 Better than: Standing in one place for two hours in the rain in Central Park without Wilco. The dudes from NYCTaper peer up at the steady falling rain and the umbrella perched over their microphones, worried that the drops' patter ... More >>

Live: Megafaun Keep The Lower East Side Weird

​Megafaun Mercury Lounge Saturday, September 24 Better than: More than a few '90s Dead shows I could mention. Set openers don't get much more inviting than "Real Slow," a slyly seductive scene setter wherein "people come from miles just to take a seat and watch the show." Better yet, North C ... More >>

Wilco

​Megafaun Mercury Lounge Saturday, September 24 Better than: More than a few '90s Dead shows I could mention. Set openers don't get much more inviting than "Real Slow," a slyly seductive scene setter wherein "people come from miles just to take a seat and watch the show." Better yet, North C ... More >>

Deerhoof

​Megafaun Mercury Lounge Saturday, September 24 Better than: More than a few '90s Dead shows I could mention. Set openers don't get much more inviting than "Real Slow," a slyly seductive scene setter wherein "people come from miles just to take a seat and watch the show." Better yet, North C ... More >>

Mavis Staples Is for the Children

The soul icon/golden girl hooks up with Jeff Tweedy and charms the world anew

This Week in the Voice: CityTime Costs and Costs and Costs

​This week in the Voice, Graham Rayman details the disaster that is CityTime, a project of the Bloomberg administration meant to automate the city's payroll system. Last month, one CityTime consultant, Spherion, was indicted for defrauding the city of $80 million. Over the last 12 years, CityT ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Mavis Staples, Shilpa Ray, and More

Mavis Staples: For kids aged 8-80. Photo by Chris Strong.​In this week's Village Voice, Amy Linden talks with soul icon/golden girl Mavis Staples about her collaboration with Jeff Tweedy, and David Cotner profiles local wailer Shilpa Ray.

Live: The National Open, But Yo La Tengo Dominate During Their Final Hanukkah Night At Maxwell's

Georgia, Ira, and the Clean's Hamish Kilgour, leading a drummer summit. Pics by Liz Clayton, more below.​Yo La Tengo/The National Maxwell's Wednesday, December 8 Better than: The other seven nights, kinda. Nels Cline sitting in Tuesday was pretty sweet. Ditto Jeff Tweedy a few nights earl ... More >>

Wednesday Night's Big Guest at Yo La Tengo's Final Maxwell's Show? Probably The National

Take it with a grain of salt, but we hear pretty reliably that the big guest for Yo La Tengo's eighth-night finale at Maxwell's will be none other than Brooklyn's the National. If true, they'd follow a murderer's row of guests YLT have already had out to Hoboken this year: M. Ward and tonight's Vi ... More >>

Jeff Tweedy+the Autumn Defense

Take it with a grain of salt, but we hear pretty reliably that the big guest for Yo La Tengo's eighth-night finale at Maxwell's will be none other than Brooklyn's the National. If true, they'd follow a murderer's row of guests YLT have already had out to Hoboken this year: M. Ward and tonight's Vi ... More >>

Fall Guide: Interpol Return With Their First Record in Three Years

But don't look for that persona-grooming bassist

Jay Farrar

But don't look for that persona-grooming bassist

moe.

But don't look for that persona-grooming bassist

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

Wilco at Keyspan Park (The Live Review)

photo by Harry Shuldman Wilco/Yo La Tengo 13 July 2009 KeySpan Park Brooklyn, NY Things Wilco are not (the American Radiohead; uncute). Things Wilco are (strummable; a great band to sing along to on a breezy eve on Coney Island, where they played last night in centerfield of KeySpan Park). Steeple ... More >>

Wilco: The Review

Music for white people to relax to, and what's wrong with that?

EASY DOES IT

A blander Wilco should still be great live

The Avett Brothers Mix Maudlin Sentiment with Punk Ferocity

Rick Rubin approves.

Jay Bennett, 1963-2009

The terrible news that singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer/former Wilco cohort Jay Bennett died in his sleep at age 45 over the weekend will both draw attention to his most recent solo album, Whatever Happened I Apologize (still officially available as a free download here) and make tha ... More >>

Wilco's Album-Leak Damage Control: "Everyone Was Talking About Us!"

I have tremendous sympathy for bands whose new records leak months prior to their release dates, perhaps borne of a vivid, unpleasant memory of a 2006 Shins CMJ gig wherein all the stage banter was them moaning, in an unconvincingly jocular manner, about the recent inadvertent Internet unveiling of ... More >>

Interview: Nels Cline on Masturbation, Thurston Moore, and Wilco's New Record

"I'm a really big fan of Sonic Youth, and I kind of don't make any bones about it." Jeff Tweedy pulled a rabbit out of his beard when he landed Nels Cline in Wilco following Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Screwing with that album's winning formula by introducing an off-the-wall competing guitarist on its ... More >>

A Thanksgiving Playlist

"I'm a really big fan of Sonic Youth, and I kind of don't make any bones about it." Jeff Tweedy pulled a rabbit out of his beard when he landed Nels Cline in Wilco following Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Screwing with that album's winning formula by introducing an off-the-wall competing guitarist on its ... More >>

Wilco Plays "Great" Show, Insults Brooklyn

"I'm a really big fan of Sonic Youth, and I kind of don't make any bones about it." Jeff Tweedy pulled a rabbit out of his beard when he landed Nels Cline in Wilco following Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Screwing with that album's winning formula by introducing an off-the-wall competing guitarist on its ... More >>

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson's Empire of Dirt

An appealingly bummed-out troubadour slouches toward redemption

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

An appealingly bummed-out troubadour slouches toward redemption

CMJ: Care Bears on Fire at Crash Mansion

An appealingly bummed-out troubadour slouches toward redemption

I Still Miss Someone

Big-shot cameos temporarily help a Louvin Brother forget his better half

Canadian Mopehead Makes Banality Sexy

Big-shot cameos temporarily help a Louvin Brother forget his better half

Jim O'Rourke and Jeff Tweedy Keep Their Side Project Simple, Stupid

Big-shot cameos temporarily help a Louvin Brother forget his better half

Hit by a Train

An Old 97 asks the existential question: Does the kissing ever have to stop?

Both Sides Now

Alt-country vets not as one-dimensional as they look

Music for the Masses

Fist-raising rockers tune out the majors and band with independent record labels instead

Squirt You

August precedents, timely details, and timeless novelties you will find nowhere else

No Artificial Additives

Heroic humans reveal game plan: Get organic, let stuff happen, opt for antique machinery

He's Got Reservations, but Not the Kind You Think

Heroic humans reveal game plan: Get organic, let stuff happen, opt for antique machinery

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Heroic humans reveal game plan: Get organic, let stuff happen, opt for antique machinery

Escape Claus

Heroic humans reveal game plan: Get organic, let stuff happen, opt for antique machinery

Lost and Found

Corporate Labels Still Suck

Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)

Corporate Labels Still Suck

Another Foster's Sunrise

Corporate Labels Still Suck

Music

Corporate Labels Still Suck

Flak On Both Sides

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Hey Dreaming Cowboy with a Big Ole Texas Grin

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Bummer Romps

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Songs for Woody

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds