Wilco (The Road Dogs)

It’s been a busy year for our Wilco boys and it doesn’t appear that the pace is going to let up anytime soon; Even after a host of stellar summer festival dates, late-night appearances, and the release of their all together fine Wilco (The Album). (Incidentally, the band scored its highest Billboard placement ever charting at #4 the week of its release with nearly 100 000 copies sold.) That’s quite a feat for a band that streamed online the record weeks prior to its release. Critics posited that it could drastically affect sales of the record. Pffft, what do they know? It’s called ‘building a buzz’ people…

Well, the happy Wilco ‘buzz’ continues in October, when Wilco will be hitting mostly the Midwest and South of this part of the world. The tour will include Farm Aid appearances with Willie Nelson and Neil Young, a performance in Toronto at Massey Hall (road trip Blair W?) and two shows in their native Chicago.

The hardest working band in show business? Absolutely.

Tour Dates below:

10/01 Iowa City, IA - University of Iowa
10/02 St. Paul, MN - Roy Wilkins Auditorium
10/04 Maryland Heights, MI - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (Farm Aid)
10/06 Kansas City, MO - The Crossroads
10/08 Cedar Park, TX - Cedar Park Center
10/09 Dallas, TX - The Palladium
10/10 Memphis, TN - Orpheum Theatre
10/12 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
10/14 Toronto, ON - Massey Hall
10/16 Ann Arbor, MI - Hill Auditorium
10/18 Chicago, IL - UIC Pavillion
10/19 Chicago, IL - UIC Pavillion

I Am Trying to Break Your Tour Van

Wilco to Tour U.S., Spain, and Portugal This Spring

In support of their forthcoming DVD, Ashes of American Flags (due out on April 18th at indie retailers for Record Store Day, two weeks later for everywhere else), the hardest working band in show ‘bidness’, Wilco has announced a U.S. tour and a jaunt through Spain and Portugal that starts in April, and lasts through June. I know, I know nary a Canadian date; I think we can count on those though when the new record is released later this year. Then again- you know you’ve always wanted to go to Barcelona…

The band's run of U.S. dates is preceded by a pair of Tweedy solo dates in March, and Akron/Family join Wilco for a pair of dates in Spain in late May.


Wilco tour dates:

03.26 Burlington, VT: Higher Ground (Jeff Tweedy solo) *
03.27 Northampton, MA: Calvin Theatre (Jeff Tweedy solo) *
03.28 Beacon, NY: Beacon High Auditorium (Jeff Tweedy solo) (Benefit for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater)
04.14 Milwaukee, WI: Pabst Theatre
04.15 Milwaukee, WI: Pabst Theatre
04.16 Bloomington, IN: IU Auditorium
04.17 Athens, OH: Templeton.Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium
04.18 Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Theatre
04.20 Athens, GA: Classic Center
04.21 Asheville, NC: Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
04.22 Birmingham, AL: Sloss Furnaces
04.23 Oxford, MS: Lyric Oxford
04.25 New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
05.23 Tenerife, Spain: Tenerife Auditorium
05.25 Malaga, Spain: Teatro Cervantes **
05.26 Madrid, Spain: Teatro Calderon **
05.29 Seville, Spain: Territorios Festival, La Cartuja
05.30 Oporto.Braga, Portugal: Teatro Circo
05.31 Lisbon, Portugal: Lisbon Coliseu
06.01 Santiago de Compostela.Galicia, Spain: Palacio de Congresos, Sala Braque
06.03 San Sebastian, Spain: Kursaal
06.04 Barcelona, Spain: Auditori Barcelona
07.11.14 Manchester, TN: Bonnaroo Festival
07.22.25 Detroit Lakes, MN: 10,000 Lakes Festival
08.21 Erfurt.Hohenfelden, Denmark: Highfield Festival

* with Pronto
** with Akron/Family