The follow-up to the masterpiece is always a tricky bit of business. For Wilco, the efforts to follow up Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, an album that gained them massive acclaim, were complicated by band ...

Halfway through “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart,” the leadoff track on 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. That’s when I stopped listening to Wilco, which had been one of my favorite bands of the ’90s ...

In June of 2001, Wilco presented its newly finished album to its record company, Reprise Records, and was promptly dropped from the label. Time Warner had recently merged with America Online and ...

Wilco is the quintessential indie band, a self-made institution with a cult-like following that carved its own path, despite not being embraced by the mainstream early on. In some ways, the Chicago ...

Beth Bombara: When I first heard Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, I had recently moved away from home for the first time in my life. A different state, my first real apartment, and a pair of rose colored glasses ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 23, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. A drawing shows boats full of ...