In the six weeks since nationwide Black Lives Matter protests rose up after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, musicians have been reckoning with their own complicit role in the longstanding structural racism of the music industry. Those efforts have ranged from the largely symbolic (removing the word “urban” from radio …
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Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy called for the creation of a program that would allow songwriters and musicians to regularly donate a portion of their royalties to organizations fighting for racial justice. Tweedy opened his statement by noting that the modern music industry is “built almost entirely on black art” and that …
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Jeff Tweedy has added to his already-busy autumn with a new solo album titled Warm, the Wilco frontman’s second solo LP following the retrospective Together at Last in 2017. Warm arrives November 30th via Tweedy’s dBpm Records. The album was recorded at Chicago studio The Loft alongside collaborators like Glenn …
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