{"id":805398,"date":"2020-03-18T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=969014"},"modified":"2020-03-18T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:00:14","slug":"watch-wilco-perform-surprise-concert-at-a-chicago-basketball-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-wilco-perform-surprise-concert-at-a-chicago-basketball-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Wilco Perform Surprise Concert at a Chicago Basketball Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wilco-basketball-court.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wilco\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wilco\" data-tag=\"wilco\">Wilco<\/a> performed a surprise concert at a Chicago basketball court, playing songs from their recent album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/wilcos-provisionally-anti-depressant-ode-to-joy-893843\/\">Ode to Joy.<\/a> <\/em>Held last December, the show is now part of Songkick\u2019s live series.<\/p>\n<p>The band launched into \u201cVia Chicago\u201d from 1999\u2019s<em> Summerteeth<\/em> before playing several <em>Ode to Joy<\/em> tracks, including the singles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/song-you-need-to-know-wilco-love-is-everywhere-beware-859537\/\">\u201cLove is Everywhere (Beware)\u201d<\/a> and \u201cEveryone Hides,\u201d the latter of which you can watch above. Clips of the full performance are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLpXPsXwkzhIsZ40plMcULL9lRZWWEp73v\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frontman Jeff Tweedy also took part in a Q&amp;A, with actor-comedian T. J. Jagodowski taking questions from the audience. Tweedy chose not to answer what his favorite burrito in Chicago is, but he did discuss being friends with Nick Offerman and his recent discovery of jackfruit.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLpXPsXwkzhIsZ40plMcULL9lRZWWEp73v&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He also described how he names albums, and also shared a title that\u2019s been floating around for the last ten years that no one else in the band likes: <em>Open Kimono<\/em>.&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s a good title,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a haiku. It paints a picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilco recently postponed a portion of their <a href=\"https:\/\/wilcoworld.net\/shows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">spring tour<\/a> in wake of the coronavirus outbreak. However, they\u2019re still slated to embark on a co-headlining tour with Sleater-Kinney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wilco-sleater-kinney-tour-965028\/\">this summer<\/a>, which kicks off August 6th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wilco-chicago-basketball-court-show-969014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilco performed a surprise concert at a Chicago basketball court, playing songs from their recent album, Ode to Joy. Held last December, the show is now part of Songkick\u2019s live series. The band launched into \u201cVia Chicago\u201d from 1999\u2019s Summerteeth before playing several Ode to Joy tracks, including the singles \u201cLove is Everywhere (Beware)\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 00:59:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}