Jeff Tweedy of Wilco performs a new song called “Open Your Mind” for Canadian TV. You can go here to watch the performance and also check out the two interviews.

Wilco are on tour, including dates with Smith Westerns before curating their own Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA.

Set: Via Chicago / One Wing / Pieholden Suite / Not For The Season / I Am Trying To Break Your Heart / She’s A Jar / The Ruling Class / Hesitating Beauty / Radio King / You Are Not Alone / Born Alone (new!) / How To Fight Loneliness / I’ll Fight / Jesus, etc. / Hummingbird / Theologians / A Shot in the Arm

Encore One: The Late Greats / Candyfloss / Passenger Side / I’m The Man Who Loves You
Encore Two: Walken / Acuff-Rose

Review: Jeff Tweedy–3/28/11, Madison, WI (Capitol Theater)

Discuss: What did you think of the show? Drop a comment with your thoughts/reviews on last night’s show.

Wilco today announced the formation of their new self-released imprint, dBpm, to release their future albums, with distribution provided by ANTI-. In addition to some Wilco dates, Jeff Tweedy continues his solo tour run, including a stop at the Capitol Theater in Madison on Monday, March 28th.

JEFF TWEEDY SOLO TOUR DATES:

March 22 Toronto Queen Elizabeth Theatre
March 25 Montreal L’Olympia de Montréal
March 26 Portland, ME State Theatre
March 28 Madison, WI Capitol Theater
March 29 Rochester, MN Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall
March 30 Iowa City, IA The Englert Theatre

WILCO TOUR DATES:

May 2 Montgomery, AL Montgomery PAC
May 3 Mobile, AL Saenger Theatre
May 5 New Orleans, LA Jazzfest
May 6 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater
May 7 Denton, TX University of N. TX Auditorium
May 8 Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom

Related: Wisco: A Tribute To Wilco’s Summerteeth

I spent last night in Chicago taking in Andrew Bird’s first show of a three night residency at the gorgeous Fourth Presbyterian Church . These Gezelligheid performances afforded a relaxed environment to test out new material (which was fantastic) as well as some old favorites. Jeff Parker of Tortoise opened the show and played guitar during the latter half of Bird’s set. It was an absolute perfect evening. I took home the Jay Ryan poster, but failed to notice that Fingerlings 4 was on sale. It’s thankfully now available online here.

News:

We’re excited to announce the addition of Strand of Oaks to our Ten Atoms label. We’ll be releasing Pope Killdragon as a limited edition (300 copies) vinyl. There’s a Kickstarter campaign in progress to help us raise funds for the production of the album. We appreciate your interest and support.

Download “Tree By the River” from Iron & Wine’s forthcoming album Kiss Each Other Clean!

Listen to Volcano Choir covering the Collections of Colonies of Bees jam “Flocks III” live from Japan.

Stereogum has a video of Jeff Tweedy covering John Lennon’s “God.”

R.E.M. will release their new album, Collapse Into Now on March 8th. They’re giving away the track “Discoverer” for the price of your e-mail address. Or you can just have a listen to the track here.

I’ve been supremely late on getting around to Johnny Flynn‘s recent release, Been Listening. His session with World Cafe was just the reminder I needed.

I’ve never been the biggest fan of the the Decemberists, but their forthcoming release, The King Is Dead sounds like my speed. Plus, I can’t argue with any record that has Gillian Welch on seven of its tracks. They also do justice to the Grateful Dead’s “Row Jimmy” on a recent 7″ release.

Amazon has great albums from She & Him, Smashing Pumpkins, Justin Townes Earle, The Meters and many more on sale for only $5.

Stereogum premieres the title track from the forthcoming Wye Oak album, Civilian.

Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, John McCauley of Deer Tick, and Matthew Vasquez of Delta Spirit will release an album together under the name Middle Brother.

Captains Dead talks up Milwaukee’s Sat. Nite Duets.

Jill Andrews launched a Kickstarter campaign in support of her forthcoming record, The Mirror.

Stereogum, Rolling Stone, Spin, Slowcoustic, and the AV Club release their favorite albums of the year lists. Milwaukee’s AV Club editor, Steve Hyden also releases his list of favorite albums of 2010.

Amazon lists The Best Albums of 2010 and 50 Albums You Might Have Missed

NYCTaper has the audio from Jeff Tweedy’s December 4th concert at the Bowery Ballroom

LA Times: The path to success is no longer labeled

Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy talk about working together on Mavis’ upcoming album You Are Not Alone, arriving September 14th on Anti.