Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) is not Jeff Tweedy’s way of trying to be clever with a book title The title only makes sense if you finish reading his memoir, which was released this week. I won’t be mentioning any spoilers here minus the most obvious one: you have to read it for … Read more
Okay, we’re so excited about the 2011 LouFest Music Festival that we could just pee our pants. Jason, Darren, and I had almost too much fun at last August’s inaugural event in Forest Park. (We met Jeff Tweedy! And have pictures to prove it!) Although the line-up hasn’t been announced just yet (fingers crossed for mid-March), LouFest … Read more
Photo by Jason Gonulsen I hadn’t seen a concert in two months. Hell, I’ve yet to see the new Star Wars film. But lately, I’ve been listening, carefully, to Wilco’s Star Wars, an album they, once again, gave away for free to everyone with a reasonable internet connection. There was no warning, no cute days-leading-up-to-the-release … Read more
This past weekend at their self-curated music festival (Solid Sound at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), Chicago-based rockers Wilco played a new single entitled “I Might.” Available only on vinyl (for now), “I Might” is a straight-forward, buzzy rocker with keyboard and xylophone notes that provide hints of a 1960’s vibe. The track is … Read more
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco | Photo by Jason Gonulsen Our Best of 2014 continues with a look back at the interviews we conducted in 2014, from Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy to Grouplove. Here are a few snippets, with links to the full interview. Jeff Tweedy on creating set lists, emotions I think that we strive to … Read more
Because you need more Tweedy in your life. And because it’s summer, and we like balloons and water. Sukierae, the forthcoming album from Tweedy, featuring Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and his 18-year-old son, Spencer, will be released on dBpm Records on September 23rd. You can find our review of a recent Tweedy show here.
Love every song that I know You ask me well how so Strange I can’t defend I love how every song ends There are twenty songs on Sukierae, the new album released today by Tweedy, a duo featuring Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and his son, Spencer. And the song I’m most interested in is the one … Read more
How’s this for Monday Morning news? Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy will be releasing a solo album and touring North America with a new band this summer. The new band, you ask? Well. It will feature “Tweedy’s 18-year old son Spencer Tweedy (The Blisters, Mavis Staples) on drums, Jim Elkington (The Horse’s Ha, Eleventh Dream Day) on … Read more
Somehow, the band from Festus, Missouri made it through. But it’s not like The Bottle Rockets have gone completely under the radar. In 2007, Stephen King (yes, the guy who wrote Carrie) called them “America’s premier bar band . . . often categorized as alt-country — by people who need categories.” They’ve toured extensively with … Read more
Photo by Jason Gonulsen I picked up my bags, I went looking for a place to hide When I saw old Carmen and the Devil, walking side by side I said, “Hey, Carmen, c’mon, let’s go downtown” She said, “I gotta go, but my friend can stick around” Bob Dylan, Jeff Tweedy, and Jim James … Read more
Photo courtesy of Bloodshot Records You don’t get more beginning of the roots rock scene, the alt country genre, than this demo from SiC favorite the Bottle Rockets featuring Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar. It was released in combination with re-releases of long out of print first two records The Bottle Rockets and The Brooklyn … Read more
Sitting in a combed out room Watching the world to end I won’t say golden Until you let me back in Interviewing Jeff Tweedy for his 2014 release, Sukierae, was indeed the apex of Speakers in Code. And we’re always happy to provide more Tweedy coverage, including photos from last night’s show in Tuscon. Please … Read more
Here at Speakers in Code, we can’t believe it’s almost August. Of course, that means LouFest is just that much closer, and we’ve been looking forward to the inaugural two-day festival, which takes place August 28th and 29th in Saint Louis’ Forest Park, for quite some time now. So, naturally, we’re pretty excited to announce … Read more
Here at Speakers in Code, we can’t believe it’s almost August. Of course, that means LouFest is just that much closer, and we’ve been looking forward to the inaugural two-day festival, which takes place August 28th and 29th in Saint Louis’ Forest Park, for quite some time now. So, naturally, we’re pretty excited to announce … Read more
If you’re any sort of devoted reader of Speakers in Code, you know that around these parts, we are pretty amped about the first annual LouFest taking place in Forest Park, Saint Louis on August 28th and 29th. We are devoted to promoting Saint Louis as a viable music city, whether that be on a … Read more
It almost seemed too good to be true. A true outdoor music festival in Saint Louis, one where you could sit on your blanket or in a lawn chair all day, drinking and conversing with friends and music lovers? Really? In Saint Louis? LouFest delivered on its promise: to make everything easy, like you were … Read more
To say that our little blog called Speakers in Code is a fan of Wilco would be quite an understatement. Besides pulling our name from a line in Wilco’s “Can’t Stand It,” we’re all devoted road followers of the Chicago-based band; I’ve seen their shows in six different cities, I’ve seen Jeff Tweedy solo shows, … Read more
Songs like Adam Green’s “What Makes Him Act So Bad” put me in a weird mood. Of course, I mean this in a good way. The song is just a hair over two minutes, and it gets my brain moving. It’s probably the freaky, albeit brief, guitar solo. Or maybe it’s Green’s vocals. They sound … Read more
Katie and I, with the help of Glide Magazine, created Strangers Almanac, a column devoted to singer-songwriters, two years ago, and we’ve had a lot of fun writing about some of our favorite singer-songwriters like Tift Merritt, Ryan Adams, Neil Young, Jenny Lewis, Regina Spektor, and Jeff Tweedy. It’s pretty crazy that we’re already on … Read more
Living smack dab in the middle of the U.S. of A. hasn’t given either Jason or I many feasible opportunities to attend the various music festivals that take place in other parts of the country. I won’t lie and say I don’t get maniacally jealous when I hear about other bloggers throwing parties at SXSW … Read more