Wilco Brings “An Evening With 2026” to a Busy Oklahoma City Night at The Jones Assembly Wilco brought their “An Evening With 2026” tour to an already crowded downtown Oklahoma City on Tuesday night. In addition to the band’s performance at The Jones Assembly, the Vice President had been in town earlier in the afternoon, […]
Bentley’s Bandstand: Favorite Albums of 2025 (First Half) Shane Alexander, FOREVER SONGS. Not everyone has a name known across the country, but then again very few can write songs as strong and soulful as Shane Alexander. He calls Southern California home, but his heart belongs to the cosmos. There is a way Alexander builds […]
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Bentley’s Bandstand: January 2025 JD Allen, THE DARK, THE LIGHT, THE GREY AND THE COLORFUL. One of the very finest jazz saxophone kings, it’s interesting that JD Allen also works under the pseudonyms Bigger Thomas and Cross Damon. To each his own, and any musician who can play with such soulful depth and evolving originality […]
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Wilco at the Riverside in Milwaukee Celebrating 20 years of the current line-up, WILCO prove they’re ready for Infinity The current lineup of Wilco is celebrating 20 years together. Guitarist/keyboardist Pat Sansone and guitarist Nels Cline were added to the team when Leroy Bach departed after the recording of “A Ghost is Born.” And while […]
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Tom Waits had already traveled some miles off the beaten path when he released his first albums, 1973’s Closing Time and 1974’s The Heart of Saturday Night. Eschewing the melodic folk-rock styles of his Southern California musical contemporaries, he offered gruff vocals, bluesy, jazz-influenced music that evoked an after-hours session in a seedy bar, and […]
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In 2001, when Wilco presented Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to Warner/Reprise, the company famously deemed it insufficiently commercial. The label said it would not issue the record as is—a decision that now seems about as foolish as Columbia’s refusal to approve the U.S. release of Leonard Cohen’s Various Positions LP, which includes the classic “Hallelujah.” Wilco […]
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Wilco’s terrific Summerteeth—the group’s third album, which first appeared in 1999—expands to more than four times its original length in a recently issued deluxe edition. The clamshell-boxed set couples a remaster of the adventurous original record to a wealth of previously unreleased material, including two dozen demos and outtakes and a 26-song contemporaneous Boulder, Colorado, […]
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