Jeff Tweedy
An examination of the 1998 MLB season and the home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. The two sluggers' race to hit the most home runs, later overshadowed by the steroid scandal, left a permanent mark on baseball history.
A timely mash-up of original sketches, musical performances, animation and rare Second City footage. Featuring Second City alumni and famous friends and filmed from basements, bedrooms and bunkers from across the country.
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child.
Animated interview with Jeff Tweedy about musical taste
Wilco's Nov. 16, 2017 live show from Saint Paul, MN 1. Cry All Day 2. I am Trying to Break Your Heart 3. Art of Almost 4. Pickled Ginger 5. Side With The Seeds 6. If I Ever Was a Child 7. Misunderstood 8. Someone To Lose 9. Handshake Drugs 10. Hotel Arizona 11. Via Chicago 12. Candy Floss 13. Bull Black Nova 14. Reservations 15. Impossible Germany 16. New Madrid 17. California Stars 18. Theologians 19. Box Full of Letters 20. Heavy Metal Drummer 21. I'm The Man Who Loves You 22. Hummingbird 23. Random Name Generator 24. Passenger Side 25. Locator 26. Spiders 27. Monday 28. Outta Site (Outta Mind)
It was an afternoon of contrasts when Wilco performed for a packed room of KEXP donors at Columbia City Theater on August 10, 2015. You've never seen a sold out show so quiet, so reverently enraptured, as the band presented song after song in their set, ranging from old favorites to new singles from their recent surprise full-length, Star Wars. But once each song ended? The roar of applause was deafening, and the love from fans so intense, that even frontman Jeff Tweedy seemed taken aback, lowering his hand jokingly at the audience to get us to stop cheering. But no one could resist singing quietly along with the Woody Guthrie track "California Stars," uniting the entire room in song. It was a beautiful moment, encapsulating what brought us all together that day: raising funds for KEXP's New Home, so we can continue to enrich lives with "music that matters."
A fixture of the "indie rock" scene in the mid-90's, Silkworm left behind a unique catalog that is continually being re-discovered by critics and fans. Using extensive interviews with the surviving members, Couldn't You Wait? chronicles their unlikely 17 year long career on the fringe of alternative music.
Sunken Treasure follows Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy on his February 2006 solo acoustic tour. The footage was recorded over five nights and features songs from three of his current and former bands: Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, and Loose Fur, plus an unreleased track, "The Thanks I Get." The film is directed by documentarians Christoph Green and Brendan Canty, himself the former drummer of Fugazi.
"Man in the Sand" is a 1999 music documentary that chronicles the collaboration between Billy Bragg and Wilco, which involved the musicians creating new music to accompany lyrics that were written decades earlier by folk singer Woody Guthrie. The project, which was organized by Woody's daughter Nora, spawned two albums: "Mermaid Avenue," released in 1998, and "Mermaid Avenue Vol. II," released in 2000.
A documentary by photographer Sam Jones documenting American rock band Wilco recording their fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Originally intended as a showcase of the band's creative process, the film crew catches unexpected complications between the band and its record label and problems among the band members themselves.
This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
The great alt-country band Uncle Tupelo played its last concert on May 1, 1994, at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis, Missouri. By the time of this show, Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar were already not getting along well. Soon after the performance, they would both go on to create other bands, with Farrar founding Son Volt and Tweedy forming Wilco, but on that night in May 1994, there was one last grasp at combined harmony and greatness. In the video below, Tweedy and Farrar trade off on the lead vocals, with drummer Mike Heindon joining the band on the final song of the set, “Looking for a Way Out,” and also singing on the encore with Brian Henneman and the Bottle Rockets on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Gimme Three Steps.”
