Great news for those of you who “go to concerts to relax.” Purchase your tickets at their official site.

Beck’s Record Club is nothing new at this point. Previous guests have included MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Nigel Goodrich, Jamie Lidell and many others. For the club’s latest effort, Beck brings together Wilco and Feist to cover Skip Spence’s album, Oar. Check out the video of “Little Hands” below.

[Weekly roundup of the week's notable CD releases. Free and legal MP3 samples are provided where available so you can try 'em before you buy. Check out our upcoming CD releases calendar for a comprehensive list of 2009 releases.]
Bad Veins — Bad Veins – “Gold and Warm”
Fiery Furnaces — I’m Going Away – “The [...]

Welcome back to Video Round-Up, where the SD crew picks through the flurry of videos circulating this particular week and posts the highlights.
This week, there’s lots of action on the “live” front, including some notable live performances by Paul McCartney, Weezer, Grizzly Bear, Wilco and Feist, Japandroids, Spoon, and Cymbals Eat Guitars. After that, enjoy [...]

Yep, it’s time again for the quintessential “so far” list — no music site is complete without one! 2009 is shaping up to be an interesting year, with old favorites and newcomers alike issuing strong releases. In an attempt to make some sense out of everything, our staff got together to vote on our favorites.
We’d [...]

Well, it’s two weeks after the fact and I’m finally able to wrap my head around the musical smorgasbord that was Bonnaroo 2009. 75,000 people descended on Manchester, TN, (population: roughly 9,500 for 361 days of the year), for the festival’s eighth year.
The musical equivalent of Willy Wonka’s world of pure imagination, Bonnaroo once again [...]

Jay Bennett, best known as a former member of Wilco, died early Sunday morning at the age of 45. According to a spokesman for his family, Bennett died in Urbana, IL, where he had been running a recording studio. The cause of death has not yet been released.

In response to a leaked version of Wilco’s latest release, Wilco (The Album), the band has decided to stream the whole thing on their website. Enjoy the “officially sanctioned stream” and post your initial thoughts below.
Listen to the Wilco (The Album) stream now.

Pitchfork reports:
…The new Wilco album will be out in June. It doesn’t have an album title yet, but we do know a few of the song titles: “Wilco, the Song” (which the band played on “The Colbert Report” last year), “Deeper Down”, “My Country Has Disappeared”, “Sunny Feeling”, and “One Wing”.
Since you’ve got a while [...]

Anyone who’s ever caught a Wilco concert or heard Kicking Televsion, their two-disc live album, knows that they’re in a league of their own live. If any further proof is needed, take a sneak peek at their upcoming live DVD, Ashes of American Flags below.
The film was shot in gorgeous high definition and features live [...]