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video: wilco – sunloathe (2012)

in the continuing streak of animated music videos, wilco worked with director peter glantz (ok go!, andrew w.k.) and illustrator nathaniel murphy () to construct an epic story about medieval monster sorrows and the colorful splash of life that hope instils for their new clip for “sunloathe.” watch it out above.

- sunbear

video: wilco – art of almost + laminated cat [live on fallon] (2012)

in the midst of their summer tour supporting 2011′s the whole love, wilco brought their act to late night with jimmy fallon to perform the highly experimental and and outro-intense “art of almost” and, as a bonus web-exclusive “laminated cat” from jeff tweedy’s side project loose fur. check it out.

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video: wilco – austin city limits (2012)

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for their fourth year on the highly acclaimed pbs program austin city limits, chicago’s wilco break out the whole love guns. did anyone else think of KISS just then?

check it out above. the whole love is out now.

- sunbear

video: wilco – dawned on me (2012)

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unless you’re at home watching boomerang, it’s been a while since we’ve all seen a popeye cartoon, right? well what better way to reacquaint you with the spinach-lovin’ sailor than by having wilco jump into his world and perform “dawned on me” from their lp <em?the whole love?

yes, bluto antics abound.

- sunbear

video: wilco – whole love + dawned on me [live on conan] (2012)

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wilco stopped by conan to perform the title track to last year’s highly acclaimed album the whole love, as well as a web-exclusive take on “dawned on me.” check out the latter here and be sure to check out their itunes session which is out today.

- sunbear

video: austin city limits performances (2012)

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fresh off the arcade fire-high, pbs is previewing all upcoming austin city limits performances. check out the likes of fleet foxes, florence and the machine, wilco, lykke li, and joanna newsom who up above is harping on her ever popular “bridges and ballons.”

check out all the acl preview videos here.

- sunbear

video: wilco – npr’s tiny desk concert (2011)

wilco playing a tiny desk concert is what it’s all about – a stadium sized band packing it in close quarters with tiny amps and a miniscule amount of microphones to perform an intimate set to the their hometown pencil pushing fans in the npr offices.

the band run through three songs from their latest album the whole love, as well as an old favorite “war on war” from yankee hotel foxtrot, playing to a packed and adoring audience. catch the performance at the link below.

the whole love is out now.

watch:

wilco – npr’s tiny desk concert

- sunbear

video: wilco – live on letterman concert series (2011)

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wilco stopped by the ed sullivan to perform the rousing “born alone” from their album the whole love (out september 27) as well as tape a full concert for the live on letterman concert series. you can catch that here

- sunbear.

stream: wilco – the whole love (2011)

naturally, the good people NPR got first dibs on the post-early-september-24-hour-exclusive stream of wilco’s new epic, the whole love. sure to make plenty of top 5 lists this year, i can’t help but feel like this must have been one of the funnest albums for wilco to write and record. take a listen and you’ll get it.

stream:

wilco – the whole love [full album]

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video: jeff tweedy – i gotta feeling [the black eyed peas cover live] (2011)

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more parody than anything, though the manner in which he directs the crowd to sing “l’chaim” seems purely sincere, wilco frontman jeff tweedy spreads some lyric sheets, sets a capo, and covers the black eyed peas’ immortal party-anthem “i gotta feeling.”

you do want to watch this, trust me. turns your wednesday completely around.

- sunbear

video: jeff tweedy – dawned on me [live at st. louis peabody opera house] (2011)

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jeff tweedy took a break from a st. louis magazine photoshoot at the peabody opera house to sit in the empty seats and perform this new wilco song from the band’s upcoming album the whole love, due out september 27th. he also apologizes for making ‘guitar faces’ when the st. louis mag photog decided that this was a prime moment to shoot.

- sunbear