Jay Bennett, the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who played with Wilco for the three-album stretch including “Being There,” “Summerteeth” and “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” has died in his sleep at age 45. Bennett, who in late 2008 released his latest solo album “Whatever Happened I Apologize” via the free digital download label Rock Proper, was preparing […]
Dispatch from the Midwest: Casey Meehan [left], the Chicago-based artist who launched the online music distributor that offered free downloads of Jay Bennett’s album last year, today releases the album by his new project, Jitney. The album, “86-300,” is available for free at Rock Proper. Jitney’s album – which is quite a tour de force […]
If the Henry Clay People and Nico Stai have a sense of humor (and they might), each ought to play a cover song tonight at the second installment of Indie 103.1’s Check One Twosdays at the Echoplex. The Henry Clays could play a Neil Young tune, and Nico Stai one by Wilco — as a […]
There’s a point about halfway through the first batch of songs to emerge from the Long Beach quartet Two Guns when a certain optimism surfaces. Everything’s gonna be all right. It’s the same vague sentience that set in after I heard Wilco’s “Summerteeth,” or, more recently, “Ghost Stories” by L.A.’s Everest: Just because your relationships […]
