‘Something out of nothing.’ Jeff Tweedy embraces new music and the power of creativity.

Teacher and Student: How Jeff Tweedy's "Solo Band" Is Revitalizing His Career

In November of 2017, it was announced that Wilco would be going on hiatus through 2018. For the first time since forming in 1995, the band, led by Jeff Tweedy, would go a full year without touring. Drummer Glen Kotche’s wife had received a Fulbright scholarship in bioengineering to work and study in Finland, and rather than forcing him to send his family abroad on their own or, on the other hand, finding some way to continue touring without him,…

‘Something out of nothing.’ Jeff Tweedy embraces new music and the power of creativity.

When faced with a challenging world, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy turns to songwriting. His new solo album, “Twilight Override,” is fueled by intentionality – valuing connection over division and creation over destruction.

Jeff Tweedy's Twilight Override reviewed: Wilco frontman’s triple album is a gentle salve in stormy times

It was novelist and critic John Berger who first posited that “calm is a form of resistance”. Who knows if Jeff Tweedy was channelling that sentiment while creating the gentle behemoth that is Twilight Override, but he has certainly responded to the maelstrom of paranoia and inhumanity unleashed by the second Trump term – what the Wilco frontman has dubbed “a bottomless basket of rock bottom” – with a disarming composure, and a big batch of tune…

Jeff Tweedy “Twilight Override”

One of the founding fathers of americana music delivers a magnum opus for our times. Well, suppose you find that music is a distraction from difficult times. In that case, the current state of the world has clearly provided a huge motivation for Jeff Tweedy to write, as he releases a triple album of songs nearly five years after his last solo album. Faced with a societal doom loop and struggling with ‘a bottomless basket of overwhelming rock bot…

Caustic Commentary: Jeff Tweedy, Geese, Cate Le Bon, Neko Case, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram & More - Glide Magazine

It is hard to believe this is the last Caustic of September; it feels like it all just started yesterday. As we wave goodbye to an exhilarating month of new releases, the month isn’t going out on a soft note, quite the opposite, actually. This week’s New Music Friday is an action-packed summer blockbuster where the stars align perfectly to balance out each release. For every gentle venture into folk, there is experimental Hip-hop, and for every …