Chances are you’ve seen this video all over the net in the past week, but it’s too cool for us not to share. Wilco collaborated with King Features for the video for The Whole Love‘s upbeat groover “Dawned On me.” The result is the first original, hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in over 30 years. And yep, the gangs all here: Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Swee’Pea, Nels Cline, John Stirratt…you get the picture. Anyway, watch the fun, Wilco-soundtracked nostalgia trip below:
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Seeing how our staff has distinct tastes and opinions on music, it would be nearly impossible for us to determine a 10 Albums of 2011 list as a single entity without excessive bloodshed. So over the next couple of days, we’ll be posting Top 10 Albums of 2011 lists as determined by individual Loud Loop Press staff members. Today, associate editor Audrey Leon offers up her list for Top 10 Albums of 2011.
What a long strange trip it has been. All obligatory yearbook quotes aside, 2011 has been an interesting year for music. I spent all year questing after that one (or ten) album that would kick my ass, make me want to dance and/or make me fall in love so hard I can’t breathe by the end of it. Odd requirements, I know, but at least now I have many excellent contenders for future ex-husbands.
Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.
Yes, Tweedy and Co. have teamed with Chicago’s kernel institution, Garrett Popcorn, for a collectable The Whole Love tin of the sweet, sweet Midwestern maize.
From November 1 until November 24 Chicago area Garrett Popcorn Shops will offer a The Whole Love bundle, which is a one gallon (!!!) tin of Garrett’s Chicago Mix popcorn that features a lid with The Whole Love cover art and includes a CD of the record.
The cost is $43.99 (I’m assuming that is a little more than your average popcorn tin?), but $4 from each tin sold will be donated to the Jane Addams Hull House Association to aid in their work to improve social conditions for undeserved communities.
So, I leave you with this Chicago: Does anyone actually eat this stuff?
Wilco plan to release a limited edition cassette of its new album The Whole Love that will feature a few Hipstamatic photos submitted by fans.
All any Wilco fan needs to participate is listen to The Whole Love for inspiration, take a Hipstamatic photo and name it after one of the tracks on the album. Simple enough, yeah?
The deadline for submissions is this Saturday, Oct. 15. So get cracking because if Wilco says they’re bringing back cassettes, then they’re bringing ‘em back. The group will then choose the top five photos to be featured on the cassette cover.
For more information on how to enter and to see the submissions so far, click here.
As odd as it may sound that Wilco is finally hitting their stride on their eighth studio album, it might be true. After two landmark records, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born, Wilco opted for a more roots-y, straightforward feel for their most recent releases, Sky Blue Sky and Wilco (The Album), which resulted in good but not great. This time around, however, The Whole Love finds Wilco striking a perfect balance between the familiar and the adventurous.
Move over 
