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It is not Wilco's fault we live in the time we live in, this time of instant gratification and auto-tune. If we're being fair, maybe pop music these days is what pop music should have always been, a sonic wallpaper we plaster over what Walker Percy called the "everyday" of our existence.
A 20th-anniversary boxed set and a documentary from last year focused on a former band member help explain the growing pains that plagued the rock band as it completed “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.”
The Venue hosts a tribute to Jay Bennett, Daughtry plays the Genesee Theatre, Erykah Badu hits Ravinia, The Million Reasons take the stage again, and much more.
The first album recorded by Jeff Tweedy's band Wilco was called "A.M." Released on March 28, 1995, it came not long after the breakup of Uncle Tupelo, the influential trio from Belleville, Ill., that included Tweedy with his high school pals, Jay Farrar and Mike Heidorn.