Featuring live cuts from Wilco, Decemberists, My Morning Jacket, others… From the press release:

Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Jack Johnson and other top artists are donating their music to encourage Americans to speak out on climate change. Organized by the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, HeadCount and the NRDC Action Fund, this collaboration marks the first time free music has been used to prompt Americans to contact their elected officials.

Best of Bonnaroo, a compilation of 17 different live performances from the festival, is available for free at www.Musicforaction.org. Before downloading the music, visitors are asked to email their Senators, the President or their local newspapers about climate change. The music is free no matter what, but the artists hope all their fans join them in taking action on this issue. (more…)

Wilco and Liam Finn
Wexner Center for the Arts | Columbus, OH
October 12, 2009

Keep reading for more photos… (more…)

UPDATE: See photos from the show here.

On stage @ 9:17 p.m.

Intro – Price Is Right Theme Music

Wilco (The Song)
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
One Wing
A Shot In The Arm
Bull Black Nova
You Are My Face
One By One
I’ll Fight
At Least That’s What You Said
Deeper Down
Impossible Germany
Country Disappeared
Handshake Drugs
Wishful Thinking
—band introductions from Glenn’s drum pads–
You Never Know (w/ Liam Finn)
I’m Always in Love
Jesus, Etc. (sing-along)
Theologians
I’m The Man Who Loves You

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Encore #1:
Misunderstood – 31 nothings
The Late Greats
California Stars (w/ Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes)
Heavy Metal Drummer
Hate It Here
Walken
Monday
Hoodoo Voodoo (w/ Liam Finn – cowbell)
I’m A Wheel

Off stage @ 11:37 p.m.

(From Via Chicago)

I’ve seen Wilco a ton of times and this was definitely a solid offering. Loved hearing the new stuff live. Liam Finn as an opener was great, and seeing Jeff in a good mood never gets old.

I was really happy that I was able to catch Wilco one more time in Columbus while we were in town for Cupcake Camp… It’s Tuesday morning and I gotta get back on the road to Brooklyn.

PPS: Great surprise to see John (bass!) wearing an Alison Rose t-shirt.

When Jay Bennett posted a comment on donewaiting.com a few months ago, I thought it was one of the coolest things ever. He’ll be missed.

Via Undertow Music:

We are profoundly saddened to report that our friend died in his sleep last night. Jay was a beautiful human being who will be missed.

Head over to Wilco’s official site to stream the new album. Release date is June 30. Pre-order on Amazon.

Do you remember when they were streaming Yankee Hotel Foxtrot while they were in label limbo on their website all those years ago? Damn that seems like it was forever-ago.

Goobye, monies.

Pre-order going on now for 180 gram vinyl releases of Summerteeth, A.M., and Being There.

All records come with a CD copy too.

Oh yeah, Jay Bennett is suing Wilco too.

I’m in Indianapolis for a conference right now but I was able to sneak away to Bloomington last night to catch Wilco. There wasn’t a lot of energy from the crowd where I was sitting, but I enjoyed the show anyway. Might not have been my favorite Wilco show, but any Wilco show ranks high overall in my life.

I picked up the Ashes of American Flags DVD, too. One thing I didn’t know was that it comes with a link to download all the songs from the film as MP3s. Nice! If you’re in Columbus, you can catch a screening of the film Saturday at the Wexner Center. (disclosure: I work there)

Here’s the set list, courtesy of Via Chicago. No new songs!

You Are My Face
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Company In My Back
Handshake Drugs
Pot Kettle Black
Hummingbird
Ashes Of American Flags
War On War
Jesus, Etc.
Impossible Germany
Bob Dylan’s Beard
Misunderstood
Forget The Flowers
Can’t Stand It
A Shot In The Arm

First Encore
The Late Greats
Heavy Metal Drummer
Walken
ITMTLY

Second Encore
California Stars
Hate It Here
Kingpin
Hoodoo Voodoo
I’m A Wheel

4/17 Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium

No details on onsale date, etc, yet. But you can go here to watch a trailer of their new live DVD, coming in April.

MP3: The Engines are Idle

Former Wilco mad scientist Jay Bennett has released his latest album, Whatever Happened I Apaologize, as a free download from Rock Proper. Click here to grab it free and legally.

I was just having a conversation yesterday with my friend Megan about how changes in the industry are real and not just talking points that music geeks obsess over. Bennett might not still be setting the world on fire with sales, but he is a respectable solid name that can certainly sell enough records to make it worthwhile for any small label to work with him.

Which makes me think about local bands who don’t really tour: why aren’t you just releasing your music for free instead of spending $1,500 for 1,000 CDs that you’ll never sell…. If it’s good enough for Jay it’s good enough for you.

From the press release:

Rock Proper is an online music distributor providing free, high quality, album-length downloads with the legal consent of their creators. Please download this music, share it, and enjoy it in any non-commercial way you deem appropriate … In addition to Jay’s record, our site features 10 great reissues for your listening pleasure. Many of these records were recorded at Jay’s studio, Pieholden Suite Sound and document some of the many collaborations of a close group of friends focused on Chicago’s far north side.

Like Joe the Plumber, but not. New song…..

Watch Colbert’s interview with Jeff Tweedy here. Culture Bully currently has an mp3 of the song.

(Catching up on stuff that happened while I was on my honeymoon)

Not sure where this is happening, but I found this on the Youtube.

Okay, here’s two things I didn’t know today.

1. Amazon.com is selling vinyl records. Say what? Makes sense, considering lots of people are moving away from CD, but still this totally went under my radar.

2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is reissued on vinyl? Say whaaaaaa? But I can’t seem to find any info on the web. Help me out, people.

Both of these things learned thanks to Each Note Secore.

The Hood Internet has gone and remixed an entire city! This fun mashup album features a ton of bands and the songs range from the straight up insane (Kanye + Wilco + the Super Bowl Shuffle!) to some really great stuff, like this Andrew Bird track I’m posting up.

MP3: Simple X-plosion (Diverse vs Andrew Bird)

Click here to download the full album for free.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. Pro Nails Forever (Kid Sister vs Walter Meego)
3. Frog Minutes (Shawnna vs LMNOP)
4. Cakeicide (Hollywood Holt vs Prairie Cartel)
5. Juke And Pop (Mic Terror vs Green Velvet)
6. Superbowl Jesus (Kanye West + 1985 Bears vs Wilco)
7. Trenchache (Juice vs Liz Phair)
8. 80s Problems (Tha Basix vs Mahjongg)
9. When Baby Mamas Collide (Qualo vs Chin Up Chin Up)
10. Simple X-plosion (Diverse vs Andrew Bird)
11. Your Love Iz What It Iz (The Cool Kids vs Frankie Knuckles)
12. Sisters Of Chicago-Rillas (Rhymefest vs The Changes)
13. I Ain’t That Bowie (Twista vs The Sea And Cake)
14. Hay Electric (Crucial Conflict vs Reds and Blue)
15. Watch My Big Feet Jump (Dude N Nem + Twista vs Office)
16. Ten-Day High (Do Or Die + Kanye West vs Tortoise)
17. Eatchyo Stigmata (Yea Big + Kid Static vs Ministry)
18. Smash That There (Yung Berg vs The Smashing Pumpkins)
19. Stages Of Standby (Psalm One vs Kleenex Girl Wonder)
20. Can You Eat Some More Heavy Fists Of Love? (Kanye West + GLC vs Bumps + Terminal 4 + Big Black)
21. I Used To Love The Blue Line (Common vs Bang! Bang!)
22. I Gotcha Trees (Lupe Fiasco vs May Or May Not)
23. What Chu Like, Old Mare? (Da Brat vs Sleep Out)
24. Kells-Tone For The Painfully In Love (R. Kelly vs Casiotone For The Painfully Alone)

UPDATED: Photos from the show by Kim Rottmayer

I still haven’t processed last night’s amazing show. I was hoping Andrew Bird was gonna play a song with Wilco, and it happened! So good. More coherent thought later, including photos. For now, here’s a discussion of the show in our message board and here’s the Columbus OH set list:

Andrew Bird
1. Intro
2. Sovay
3. A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left
4. Why? (stopped and restarted)
5. Spare-Ohs
6. Plasticities (stopped and restarted)
7. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (?)

Wilco
1. Sunken Treasure
2. You Are My Face
3. Company In My Back
4. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (noise intro)
5. Handshake Drugs
6. A Shot In The Arm
7. Side With The Seeds
8. Via Chicago
9. Impossible Germany
10. Sky Blue Sky
11. Forget the Flowers
12. Hummingbird
13. Jesus, etc. (with Andrew Bird on violin)
14. Walken
15. I’m The Man Who Loves You
16. The Late Greats

Encore 1:
17. Hate It Here
18. Heavy Metal Drummer
19. In A Future Age
20. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Encore 2:
21. Airline to Heaven
22. Too Far Apart
23. Red-Eyed & Blue
24. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)
25. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

[from Via Chicago]