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Wilco co-founder Jay Bennett dies, band to release new album in June

 The new album cover for Wilco's next, due in June

Just as the band is bandwidthing it up with its plans for a new self-titled album and tour, some sad news out of Wilco world with the death of one of its co-founders, the versatile, Jay Bennett, who passed away in his sleep this week at the age of 45.
Wilco has become one of those bands that, like Radiohead and a few others, fans wait for each album and show as anxiously, apparently, as their next church service, according to religiondispatches.org.
In other Wilco news, the band has just released a new live DVD, “Ashes of American Flags” and also released the cover image for the new album, due out in June. This month Rolling Stone magazine did a track-by-track review of the self-titled album. As did Quietus.com.

The band is planning for a summer tour, and so, to size them up, here are a few videos for your examination purposes to see how the band has evolved over the years.

Wilco live in Amsterdam

At Bannaroo in 2007

Live on David Letterman

 

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