Jeff Tweedy

Mavis Staples performs at 2010 Lollapalooza. (Terrence Antonio James, Tribune) The story that most fans know about Mavis Staples’ rousing new album, “You Are Not Alone” (Anti), is that the singer recorded it with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, who...

Wilco will start writing its next album just in time for Halloween, according to band member Pat Sansone. "We're taking a couple of weeks off," the multi-instrumentalist, fresh off a plane from Berlin, said. "When I get back toward the......

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 3 - 9 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here The Early Show Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg. (N) 7 a.m.......

Farm Aid: Jeff Tweedy, Kenny Chesney, Norah Jones, Jason Mraz, Band of Horses, the BoDeans, Amos Lee and Robert Francis join Farm Aid regulars Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews in this long-running benefit for family farmers,......

It’s a fool's game, trying to pick 10 songs about one of popular music’s most reliable topics: alcohol, and the joy and pain it begets. It’s a topic that could fill volumes -– song and the drink -– so to......

The Grammy Awards went young -- and pop -- in 2010, awarding crossover teen star Taylor Swift the show's top crown -- album of the year. For such a seemingly wholesome and beloved artist, it was seen as a somewhat......

By this time Saturday, folks are going to rally like it’s Aug. 28, 2010. Or something like that. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert supporters will descend upon the National Mall in Washington — and in other parts of the country......

Pop & Hiss looks at the weekend's top gigs. Thursday Walter Meego @ the Echo. This onetime Chicago-based threesome is now a Los Angeles-residing five-piece, and the Echo gig should serve as a sort of coming out party for the......

Wherever Mavis Staples goes, her sister Yvonne is not far away. While Mavis Staples radiates joy and determination, her older sibling looks on with the vigilant concern of a family matriarch. It was no different at a packed and boisterous......

John Mellencamp: The singer-songwriter is coming off an intriguing series of albums emphasizing his songwriting and his debt to roots blues, country and folk, a direction that may shake up his shows from greatest-hits routine, 6:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday at...

Last year Mavis Staples cut a great new album, "You Are Not Alone," for Silver Lake's Anti-Records (produced by her new label-mate Jeff Tweedy). Next month she's going to further cement her local bona fides with an insanely rare and......

It didn’t take long after Bethlehem’s Musikfest festival announced Friday that headliner Korn was canceling its Aug. 13 headlining show that people online started throwing out requests for replacements. And to be honest with you, I think...