WILCO LIVE FROM BARCELONA

It was fun live-tweeting during Wilco's performance at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona today.  You can check out the rest of the fest' through Saturday, with more live streaming here.  

As always, the musicianship was bar none and they pulled from a deep repertoire of songs. I admired how they trusted the audience to hang with them, making major leaps between genres straight from the highs to the lows.

Just like The Whole Love, this Wilco show had it all: tender moments, free-wheeling guitars, and everything in between.

WILCO'S BRAND OF POP MUSIC

If ya haven't heard... the new Wilco album, The Whole Love,  covers the whole gamut. It’s masterfully refined pop and melancholia sandwiched between two starkly different 10 minute tracks; beginning with a wicked melt-your-face guitar solo and ending with a gentle lullaby.

Full length review available at Cougar Microbes.
 
"Dawned On Me" is pop music at it's finest! This song is so sweet and upbeat that Sprint, or some other long distance carrier, should license it for their commercials. Funny anecdote about the video below:  In an interview on the podcast, Nerdist, Jeff Tweedy said his wife hates how in the end he wins Olive Oil, not Popeye.