A Ghost is Born Deluxe is available for preorder now on vinyl and CD. Up for grabs: the original album alongside alternates, outtakes and demos, charting the making of the album—plus a 2004 concert recording from Boston’s Wang Center and the band’s “fundamentals” workshop sessions. And you know we had to make merch-to-match.
We’re trying something new and taking Wilco’s winter residency on the road. Spend a December evening (or two) (or three) with the band in Austin, Tulsa and/or St. Paul. It’s the only way we know how to beat the winter blues.
The following shows are ON SALE NOW.
Thur. December 5 – Austin, TX @ The Moody Theater
Fri. December 6 – Austin, TX @ The Moody Theater
Sat. December 7 – Austin, TX @ The Moody Theater
Tue. December 10 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
Wed. December 11 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Balllroom
Fri. December 13 – St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
Sat. December 14 – St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
Sun. December 15 – St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
^these shows will not have a support act. Wilco will play two sets with a short intermission.
Photo by Akash Wadhwani (@akashwadh)
The Hot Sun Cool Shroud cover is here! And it was designed by one of you! A round of applause for Clementine, Age 3, who won in a unanimous landslide victory after designing this pony-adorned cover at Solid Sound. 🦄
Vinyl and CD will be available on November 29! Preorder now in the Wilco Store US / EU / AUS, at your local record shop and on Amazon.
Hot Sun Cool Shroud features six new tracks from Wilco that have a summertime-after-dark kind of feeling.
“It starts off pretty hot, like heat during the day, has some instrumentals on it that are a little agitated and uncomfortable and ends with a cooling breeze. There are tracks on Hot Sun Cool Shroud that are more aggressive and angular than anything we’ve put out in a while, and a song about love melting you like ice cream into a puddle of sugary soup. All the pieces of summer, including the broody cicadas.” – Jeff Tweedy
Wilco’s new EP is streaming now! 🍒 Listen here.
Belgium, Germany, UK, France and Spain 🥰 Wilco heads your way June 2025!
| 16 June 2025 | OLT Rivierenhof | Antwerp, BE |
| 17 June 2025 | OLT Rivierenhof | Antwerp, BE |
| 19 June 2025 | Dachau Musiksommer | Dachau, DE |
| 20 June 2025 | JunkYard Open Air | Dortmund, DE |
| 22 June 2025 | Royal Albert Hall | London, UK |
| 23 June 2024 | La Cigale | Paris, FR |
| 26 June 2025 | Alma Barcelona | Barcelona, ES |
| 27 June 2025 | Alma Madrid | Madrid, ES |
| 28 June 2025 | Venue TBD | Granada, ES |
| 29 June 2025 | Marina Norte | Valencia, ES |
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If you need a serotonin boost, look no further.
Watch this performance of “Freedom Highway” by Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy. Live from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert during the DNC at Chicago’s Auditorium Theater.
We won’t turn around.
Photo by @skpnyc
Our Front of House series on nugs.net explores Wilco’s 25+ years of live catalog, past and present. The series includes exclusive recordings released on the last Wednesday of November, February, May and August.
The August 2024 release is from 2008, at Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA on February 23. Download the full set and listen here.
Solid Sound is unforgettable… but when you need a reminder download complete audio sets of Wilco “DEEP CUTS” from Friday Night, the band’s sneaky Saturday night A Ghost Is Born celebration and Jeff Tweedy’s festival-closing Sunday performance.
New ROADCASES are available now (poster bundle optional but encouraged)!
There are many Solid Sound thank yous to shell out, we couldn’t do it without each of YOU.
An extra hat tip to our festival teams at Wilco, Higher Ground, G4D and MASS MoCA; the fearless merch team (Jess, Jeff, Jessica, Megan, Elise, Matt and Sara + Cherie, Brandy, Andy); all of our artists AND their crews; the North Adams Police, Fire and EMS Departments; festival security; the smiling faces behind the cameras (Jamie, Charles, Austin, Joe, Ryan); and OUR INCREDIBLE VOLUNTEERS. 💕
Listen to the Solid Sound 2024 playlist here.
Lace up your skates and meet Wilco at The Rink.
The band’s new music video for “Meant To Be” is out now.
It was shot at The (legendary) Rink on Chicago’s Southside, the video highlights JB Skating, a smooth dance style of skating that started in the early ’70s. Picture synchronized group movements to James Brown tunes (hence the “JB”) under disco ball lights. 🪩
Watch now. And replay again and again. No Wilcos were harmed in the making of this video 🛼
Photo of Darius Sanders by Akash Wadhwani
Nothing (Nothing, Nothing, Nothing at all) beats flipping through the bins; support your local store and make some new friends. After all, “without these stores, there’s just no way Wilco would still be around.” – Jeff Tweedy
The latest from Wilco: A stunning version of the band’s legendary 2011 album, The Whole Love. Now on three LPs, expanded to include all related single, EP and bonus tracks plus a selection from The Loft’s archive of live in-studio performances and previously unreleased alternate mixes and demos. This special Record Store Day 2024 release includes Wilco classics “Art of Almost”, “Dawned on Me”, “Sunloathe” and many others.
Shop the Wilco Store: North America | Europe | Australia
Bandcamp | Apple Music | Spotify | Amazon Music | Tidal
For years we called it “Book 3”. Now it’s more formally named WORLD WITHIN A SONG: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music. “WWAS” for short.
Whatever you call it, Jeff Tweedy’s 3rd book available now via Dutton. Order here!
When we asked Jeff about the book, he said: “I want to talk about songs that gave me permission to be creative…to be myself. To say something that was hard to say. I’ll be telling stories from my life, focusing on a true-to-memory style of how it really felt to me, how I experienced things emotionally. And then I want to talk about music in the same way. I want to talk about music in a way that it rarely gets talked about. I want to talk about the world within the song.”
Wilco’s new album, Cruel Country, is available now on vinyl and CD.
Available on 2-LP (black and color vinyl) or 2-CD. Both feature 21 songs including early fan favorite, “A Lifetime to Find,” which was shared via a spo0oooky new music video!
Wilco’s 12th album has had a heck of a ride so far. Originally given digitally to Solid Sound participants for free, followed by a digital release May 27 (the same day the band performed it live in its entirety at the festival). Lauded by NYT as Wilco’s “understated Magnum Opus” and later released on Record Store Day as a white label CD. Now it lands in good company on the best of 2022 lists from Rolling Stone, Variety, Spin, Uproxx, and Paste AND its long awaited physical release is nearly here!
Amid Cruel Country celebrations, Wilco played 3 surprise shows at Chicago’s iconic Honky Tonk, Carol’s Pub. Enjoy a live cut from the night now.
And continue celebrating with the band at upcoming tour dates in Chicago, Port Chester NY, ICELAND, the Carolinas, Florida, Alabama, Athens GA/OH, Tennessee and later this year in Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK, and Ireland!
Good news! We finally got our hands on some extra press time to reprint Sky Blue Sky!
A limited-edition pressing on sky blue vinyl is available now.
Wilco Store: North America
Side 1: Either Way / You Are My Face / Impossible Germany
Side 2: Sky Blue Sky / Side with the Seeds / Shake It Off
Side 3: Please Be Patient With Me / Hate It Here / Leave Me (Like You Found Me)
Side 4: Walken / What Light / On and On and On
20 years later, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot has been awarded with TWO Grammys! The list of thank you’s is too long to dole out.
Seven(!) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Deluxe Reissues are available now! Get vinyl and CDs at your local record shop or online (US | EU | AUS). Or dig in digitally on all of the usual streaming services and Bandcamp.
There’s something for everyone: the original album remastered on black or gold vinyl; an expanded digital download; a deluxe vinyl/cd with live tracks and demos; plus a Super Deluxe Boxset featuring 82 previously-unreleased tracks. Check here for all the details. You’ll also find shiny new packaging, unseen photos, new interviews, and of course, merch to match!
The Wilco Store: North America | UK / EU | AUS
Watch Cousin’s television premier. The band recently performed “Evicted” on the Jimmy Kimmel show.
Watch a performance here.
The band’s 13th studio album, Cousin, is available now!
The Wilco Store: North America | Europe | Australia
Bandcamp | Apple Music | Spotify | Amazon Music | Tidal
Photo by Randy Holmes / ABC
Get WARM / WARMER, Love is the King / Live is the King, and Sukierae by Jeff Tweedy! Available now in the Wilco Stores.
WARMER is the companion release to WARM and was previously released as a RSD exclusive. Live is the King is an expanded package featuring studio and live versions of all 11 songs played by Jeff with a full band. The live set closes with a cover version of Neil Young’s classic “The Old Country Waltz”. Sukierae is a CLASSIC.
We’re constantly updating Wilcostore.com with new fun items. The latest release is a throwback!
The Wilco 3D Viewfinder is a crossover between one of childhood’s best toys and one of America’s best bands. Each 3D Viewfinder comes with 3 reels, each containing 7 Wilco images. The Loft Reel takes a closer look at the band’s iconic Chicago studio, The Green Room Reel shows rare backstage snaps, and the Live Sessions Reel gets up close with the band members on stage.
We know what you’re thinking. The answer is: No, Jeff doesn’t stop making music.
Which means you’re in luck, because there are two new tracks available now as part of Sub Pop’s Singles Club.
“C’mon America,” the A-side, is from an unreleased group of songs with mostly sci-fi lyrics. Meanwhile “UR-60 Unsent,” the B-side, is a pitiful tale of an unsent lovesick mixtape, taken from a separate batch of unreleased songs with mostly pitiful lyrics.
Listen / order here.
Cover photo by Sammy Tweedy
If you’re looking to get more e-mails, Jeff’s got you covered.
Subscribe to Starship Casual to receive weekly notes from Jeff directly to your inbox. He’ll be sharing loads of unreleased music, check-ins from tour, stories that didn’t make either book, recommendations, advice and more.
Photo by Alexa Viscius
“There is and was only one Daniel and to be able to work with him and help present his music was a huge honor for me and the band, one for which we are all very thankful.” – Jeff Tweedy
Daniel Johnston’s final album, Chicago 2017, is available now via Wilco’s own dBpm Records: Spotify | Apple Music | Amazon Music | Vinyl
Via sales in the Wilco store, we were able to donate $7,000 to the Johnston family’s “Hi How Are You” Foundation for the study and treatment of mental illness and addiction recovery.
Check in with Jeff from The Loft as he performs a unique take of a Wilco fan-favorite for the second installment of Fender’s Re-Creation series.
For those who are curious: In this video, Jeff uses an American Acoustasonic Jazzmaster. You can learn more about the guitar here.
Photo by Zoran Orlic
Video by Picture Show
Jeff Tweedy’s second book, How To Write One Song: Loving The Things We Create and How They Love Us Back is out now.
Esquire hit the nail on the head: “[How to Write One Song] is one part manual for composing a song, and one part philosophical inquiry into the human desire—the human need—to create. It’s also an easy, delightful read.”
This is the perfect gift for your kid, or your inner child. What are you waiting for? Get creating:
US | UK | EU | Audio book read by Jeff
Wilco’s wildly fun vacation / festival returns to Riviera Maya, MX on Dec 2-6, 2023.
The all-inclusive ticket includes accommodations at Hard Rock Hotel OR (new this year) UNICO 20°87° Resort and three Wilco shows, plus performances by Father John Misty, Sylvan Esso, Lucinda Williams, Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby, Jeff Tweedy, Built To Spill, Makaya McCraven, Cate Le Bon, Bartees Strange, The Autumn Defense, Eucademix and locals Mint Field.
Get your tickets here: wilcoskybluesky.com
Check out the recap video for Sky Blue Sky Fest 2022!
We’d like to congratulate Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Azzerad (while thanking the Academy) for the new hardware. The Ode to Joy Deluxe Art Book took home this year’s Grammy for Best Packaging.
Created with the Wilco collector in mind, OTJ Deluxe is beautifully hand-crafted, autographed and hand-numbered. It includes a pop-up art book paired with a 180g vinyl. Copies are available here.
Wilco’s 11th studio album was released on October 5, 2019 via dBpm Records and is available now, in stores, online and on streaming services.
Ode to Joy features 11 new songs including the single, “Love is Everywhere.”
Happy Listening!
In June 2020, Jeff shared this statement, committing 5% of his writer revenue to organizations fighting racial injustice in the music industry.
As of 2021, that revenue will be donated to I Grow Chicago, a Chicago organization focusing on community connection, skill building, and opportunity.
Jeff spoke to CBS This Morning about the initiative, watch the interview here.
Hey, when all else fails, we have endless great music to listen to!
Check out some of the band’s favorite albums from this year and beyond! The Wilco Recommends playlist is regularly updated for you listening pleasure. Hear a sampling of the tunes that Wilco loves here.
OUT NOW! High and Low/The Message by Birdy On The Moon (aka Pat Sansone!).
Released for the first time since its recording in 90s, “High and Low/The Message” is available digitally on Bandcamp and on 7″ vinyl.
Share The Wealth, a spankin’ new, multi-faceted document played by a sublimely-expanded edition of my long-standing combo called The Nels Cline Singers is out now.
“Anyone out there hankering for a rather elaborate elucidation of sonic architecture in the jazz/rock/improv universe at this time? I hope so, but I truly understand if not. Creations get created and plans to provide these creations to you, the ardent listeners, get planned, and so here I am/we are with Share The Wealth. I am, in spite of so many concerning non-musical occurrences that assail us all at this time, truly happy and proud to announce the imminent release of this double album.” – NC
The Wilco x Oxford Pennant collection is back in stock and better than ever. Not only have we rerelease some of our favorite designs from Solid Sound and Winterlude, we’ve also added several new banners, mugs, patches, pins and more.
Available at OxfordPennant.com.
A new Wilco song called “Tell Your Friends” is available for immediate download with a charitable contribution via Bandcamp.
Watch the band perform the song with their families here.
Donations will go directly to World Central Kitchen, an organization working across America to safely distribute fresh meals in communities that need support.
** As of July 2020 we have donated $10,000 to World Central Kitchen. **
“We miss each other. So we wrote a song about it to sing with each other, to sing to each other.” – Jeff Tweedy
Previously out-of-print, Pat’s book “100 Polaroids” is now available to order. A portion of proceeds will be donated to MusiCares.
“10 years ago I put together this book to commemorate an exhibit at the first Solid Sound Festival… an exhibit of 100 photographs chosen from the thousands I had taken in the previous few years. I had just begun to look at preparing this reprint when COVID emerged, and was on the fence about whether or not to move forward with the endeavor. But I decided that I’d rather continue to stay involved in creative pursuits and share it with others…”
Available here.
Both pressings of the “All Lives, You Say?” 7-are officially sold out. Thanks! Because of you, we were able to donate $7,500 to Movement for Black Lives.
The digital version of this song is available via Bandcamp. Through those donations we contributed more than $30,000 to Southern Poverty Law Center and Life After Hate.
The Raccoonists (Jeff, Spencer and Sammy Tweedy) reunited to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live From His House.
Watch the Tweedy’s sing “Evergreen” from Jeff’s album WARMER here.
In December 2019, amid Wilco’s Winterlude residency in Chicago, the band played a surprise show – followed by a Q+A with Jeff moderated by TJ Jagodowski – from the CAA’s vintage basketball court.
During these strange times, we hope this is a welcome distraction.
Watch in full here.
Now Playing: A new music video (feat. Wilco) for “Everyone Hides,” the second single from Ode to Joy.
Watch as the band plays the ultimate game of hide-and-seek around Chicago.
Wilco X Field Notes
Six unique, durable, made-in-the-USA, 48-Page Graph Paper Memo Books, each one designed by a different artist in collaboration with a Wilco.
Available now and ready for your ideas, setlists and meeting notes.
For the Wilco collector: We created a beautiful hand-crafted autographed deluxe edition of Ode to Joy that includes and hand-numbered pop-up art book paired with a 180g vinyl. To see more of the process, watch the video below. Available for purchase here.
Get an inside look into the recording sessions for Ode to Joy via new video for “Before Us,” filmed by Zoran Orlic.