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Created On: Friday, 13 June 2008
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 Wilco The Chicago-based act continues to build its summer trek, adding new dates to a headlining tour that now looks set to keep the band on the road through late August.
Wilco, led by singer/guitarist Jeff Tweedy, will kick off the run July 25 way up north in Fairbanks, AK, the first of two shows outside the contiguous US, before returning in early August for a hometown appearance at the Aug. 1-3 Lollapalooza Festival.
According to a recent interview with Wilco guitarist Nels Cline published in Madison, WI's Capital Times newspaper, the group plans to enter a recording studio to begin work on material a new studio album, but Cline didn't know if any of the new material would be unveiled during the band's summer road trip.
"It's not up to me," Cline told the interviewer.
Their tour dates will be:
Fairbanks, AK, The Blue Loon (July 25) Anchorage, AK, The Moose's Tooth (26) Chicago, IL, Lollapalooza (August 1,3) Indianapolis, IN, White River State Park (4) Jacksonville, FL, Florida Theatre (6) Charleston, SC, North Charleston Performing Arts Center (7) Cary, NC, Koka Booth Amphitheatre (8) Baltimore, MD, Virgin Music Festival (9) Wilmington, DE, Grand Opera House (10) Lenox, MA, Tanglewood (12) Brooklyn, NY, McCarren Park Pool (13) Jackson Hole, WY, Jackson Hole Music Festival (16) Salt Lake City, UT, Red Butte Garden (18) Boise, ID, The Winery at Eagle Knoll (20) Spokane, WA, INB Performing Arts Center (21) Bend, OR, Les Schwab Amphitheater (23) San Francisco, CA, Outside Lands Festival (24)
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