The Wake

Wilco recently played a five night stand at Chicago’s Riviera Theater. Rolling Stone recapped the career spanning shows and much to my chagrin, Wilco had Wisconsin’s own New Glarus backstage.

Pre-show, the band snacks on seafood curry and jasmine rice while roadies tap a keg of the hard-to-get Wisconsin microbrew New Glarus. (”We discovered it at a venue in Milwaukee,” says Stirratt.) Tweedy, who’s sipping sparkling water and munching chips, drives each night from his nearby home. And he’s saving his fitness routine for the road. “I’ll usually go for a hike or a run before the show,” he says. The tour, which wraps on March 9th, includes a stop at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of Tweedy’s favorite venues. “It’s probably the only place that Bob Wills and the Sex Pistols both played,” he says. “Maybe there’s another place like that, but I don’t know it.” For more behind-the-scenes photos of Wilco, click here.

Spotted Cow has to be one of the best beers on the market. I suggest you go out tonight, pick up a six pack and listen to some Wilco. I couldn’t ask for anything more myself. Here’s some shitty YouTube footage of a classic. I see a DVD in the future.

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Tags: Chicago, New Glarus Brewery, Riveria Theater, Wilco, Wisconsin