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It doesn't even matter that this isn't a video in the traditional sense. This isn't even a "lyrics" video. It's just the great Mavis Staples, covering Funkadelic, as produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.

Here's Can You Get To That.

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Even monsters deserve love.

Here's the new video from Wilco, with artwork based on the Nathaniel Murphy drawings that inspired the song.

This is Sunloathe.

(By the way, my Blogger host finally did away with its old interface -- the one it's been using since I started this little experiment of mine more than six years ago -- and have pushed everything and everyone over to a new and not the least bit improved behind-the-scenes design. I hate it. Hate the hell out of it to the point where despite repeated pleas to transfer to the new system, I stubbornly held onto the doing things the old way in the hope that Google would eventually get the hint and give people the option of sticking with the original interface. Obviously that didn't happen. If I wanted Wordpress I would've gone with freaking Wordpress. Bottom line: Things may occasionally look a little different around here, unless they finally ironed the bugs out of this new system.)

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The new Wilco album, The Whole Love, will be available beginning a week from tomrrow -- and here's the first single from it.

This is Born Alone.

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As the "Best of the 00s" retrospectives inevitably begin ramping up, this masterpiece of a record will sit comfortably near the top of the albums list.

From Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, here's a song whose lyrics read like poetry.

It's Radio Cure.