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Wilco

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Members
6 Male

Popularity
61

Followers
794,591

Origin
Chicago

Genre
Alternative Rock

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Country

Mood
Quirky

Active
1994 to Present...

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Current Record Label
Dawn Raid Entertainment

Most Loved Tracks

	Track	Last.FM Listens	Youtube views	Loves
	Heavy Metal Drummer	3,292,971		8 users
	I Am Trying to Break Your Heart	3,003,393		8 users
	Jesus, Etc.	5,940,360	2,027,172 views	8 users
	Kamera	2,470,669		8 users
	War on War	2,025,680		7 users
	Impossible Germany	2,603,494		1 users

Music Video Links

Normal American Kids	Someone to Lose	Handshake Drugs
Outtasite (Outta Mind)	Jesus, Etc.	How to Fight Loneliness

Artist Biography
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Formed in Belleville, Illinois in 1994 from the ashes of alt-country pioneers Uncle Tupelo, Wilco has spent three decades restlessly reshaping its sound. Led by singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy, the Chicago-based band started out rooted in twangy, country-inflected rock — pedal steel, plainspoken lyrics, a nod to Gram Parsons and The Band. But by Summerteeth they'd folded in lush, Beach Boys–style pop melodies and studio experimentation, and by 2002's landmark Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, they'd pushed further still: warm, melodic songwriting collided with tape hiss, radio static, skronking dissonance, and long instrumental passages that felt more like sound collage than rock music. It's an album that can turn from a gentle piano melody into a wall of noise without warning, and that push-and-pull between beauty and chaos became a defining feature of the band's music.

That tension still runs through everything Wilco does. Drummer Glenn Kotche brings a jazz-trained, polyrhythmic complexity to songs that might otherwise sound like simple pop; guitarist Nels Cline, a fixture since 2004, is capable of both aching, spare lines and full-on skronky freakouts, often within the same solo. Live, the band stretches songs out, leaning into extended jams and textured, exploratory arrangements that studio versions only hint at.

Across a catalog that includes Being There, A Ghost Is Born, Cruel Country, and Cousin, Wilco moves fluidly between hushed acoustic balladry, driving guitar rock, alt-country twang, and bursts of experimental noise — often blending several of those modes inside a single song. Expect a set that can be tender one moment and gloriously abrasive the next.


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