According to Billboard Tweedy and the boys of Wilco will attempt to play their entire catalog over the course of five nights in February at the Riviera in their hometown of Chicago.
To consider Tweedy prolific would be an understatement. By my count Wilco has released at least 100 tracks including the Mermaid Avenue cuts. [...]

OK…that’s a stretch, but the Chicago-based Tweedy is playing a benefit concert this Friday to support the Illinois Congressman’s White House bid. Tweedy is the highlight on the “Change Rocks” bill.
Tweedy, whose political leanings aren’t hard to guess, should be quite the performer. I’m personally hoping he roles out his version of Randy [...]

The Herald-Zeitung (serving New Braunfels and Comal County) has a nice piece about the upcoming special event at the Cheatham Street Warehouse.
If you don’t know, Kent Finlay’s place out in San Marcos has been a sort of magnet for great songwriters. He’s celebrating that spirit by having a special evening of music on Thursday [...]

Those folks in SoCal know a thing or two about alt-country it appears.
The Stagecoach Festival announced their 2008 lineup which includes plenty of mainstream artists along with the likes of Jack Ingram, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Billy Joe Shaver, Dwight Yoakam, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas and the Greencards. Oddly enough, nearly every Americana idol [...]

Life after kids is often described as a wasteland filled with drivel like Barney. That’s certainly an exaggeration propagated by folks who don’t have kids, but even those of us with children find watching big purple dinosaurs a bit repetitive.
Enter Dan Zanes and Friends. Zanes, the former frontman of the Del [...]