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30.04.2009 16:48
Wilco will record new album
Wilco are working on their seventh studio album. Upcoming record will feature 11 songs, including track titled Wilco, The Song which the band’s drummer Glenn Kotche described as «a great, upbeat song professing our love for our fans».

30.03.2009 13:21
Wilco revealed details about new album
American rock band Wilco announced details about their new album. They revealed that the record was produced by Jim Scott, who previously worked with Dixie Chicks.

21.06.2009 13:35
Radiohead contributed for charity album
Radiohead, KT Tunstall, The Cribs and other bands has recorded new songs for a charity album The Sun Came Out. It includes only original material recorded specially for the album.

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The band Wilco rose out of the ashes of the rock formation Uncle Tupelo that was dissolved in 1994. The new group united Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Ken Coomer and part-time musicians Jay John Stirrat and Max Jonston. After they were joined by guitarist Jay Bennett, the group started working on the debut long player. It was delivered in 1995 under the title A.M. as a collection of country songs penned mostly by Tweedy. Wilco were quick enough to release in a year another studio album, Being There, as a double-CD. The music featured there was completely different from what one could hear on the first record. Tweedy went into experimenting with psychedelic sound and soul and added some traces of R&B. Soon after the release of this album, Johnston parted ways with the group preferring to perform further with his sister. He was replaced by Bob Egan.

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