Wilco, Wednesday night at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama. Review rating: Four out of five stars. Who: Wilco, Jeff Tweedy's smart, reflective, often experimental rock band from the Chicago area.

WILCO is not the most successful American rock band working today, only the most storied. What’s made them so is a combination of serious musical ambition and a ready supply of conflict. As the band’s ...

When I interviewed J.C. Brooks of Chi-town’s J.C. Brooks & the Uptown Sound for last week’s issue, we chatted about a video the band had recently shot for their killer cover of Wilco’s “I Am Trying to ...

The same week the Wilco documentary I Am Trying to Break Your Heart debuted in area theaters, the band rolled into town for a spectacular, sold-out show Monday, November 4, at the Carefree Theatre.

When I was growing up, my father was a Protestant minister. So I spent many a Sunday morning squirming in uncomfortable wooden pews, trying to fake my way through the Lord’s Prayer and slipping an ...