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Wilco Tickets – On the Road Again

Wilco is ready for 2010, mapping out a winter U.S./Canadia tour while finishing up the band’s current fall set. The group, which finished its current tour Oct. 18-19 in Chicago’s UIC Pavilion, will return to the big stage Feb. 7 at Missoula, Mont.‘s Adams Center before continuing touring through Portland, Ore.; Seattle, Wash.; Vancouver; Edmonton; Calgary; Saskatoon; Duluth, Minn.; Madison, Wis.; East Lansing, Mich.; Hamilton and London, Ontario; Montreal; Ottawa and finally Halifax on Mar. 3. 
The guys of Wilco aren’t really taking a break between their U.S. fall stint and their winter one, though; instead, they will be heading to Europe for several live shows, for which the dates are currently posted on their website. If you want to see Wilco in action this winter, you better act now to get your hands on Wilco tickets from http://www.stubhub.com.
The set promoted by Wilco on tour is the self-titled follow-up to 2007’s Sky Blue Sky, a June 2009 release via the Nonesuch label. The much-anticipated album featured the group’s first duet and debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 upon release. “Most of us are feeling that this record, this lineup, epitomizes Wilco,” drummer Glenn Kotche said to LiveDaily. “This is the longest it’s ever been a steady lineup in Wilco. We’re on our five years with this membership, which the other lineups hadn’t even come close to that.”
The band Wilco first formed from the bones of the roots rock outfit Uncle Tupelo in 1994 with members Jeff Tweedy, Ken Coomer, John Stirratt and Max Johnston (the latter two part-time members), and Jay Bennett. The group’s debut album appeared in 1995, and the quintet followed it up with 1996’s Being There, a two-disc feature.
Just after the release of their sophomore set, Max Johnston left the group and was replaced by Bob Egan. Meanwhile, Stirratt, Bennett and Coomer started focusing on their side project, Courtesy Move, while still working steadily with Wilco, which then released the third Summerteeth and Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2. At that point, Ken Coomer left the band and was replaced by Glenn Kotche, and before finishing the fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, guitarist Bennett left Wilco, as well.
The departures led to label tensions, so the group (which included Tweedy, Kotche, Stirratt and Leroy Bach) bought the studio tapes from the unreleased set and toured in support of their new material. The album was eventually released on Nonesuch Records while Tweedy worked on the 2002 Ethan Hawke film, released the same year.
Once Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was released, Leroy Bach left the group and was subsequently replaced by guitarist Nels Cline, keyboardist Mike Jorgensen and multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone.  The group remained focused, however, working on A Ghost is Born after the public announcement that Tweedy was going into rehab, which was followed up by Kicking Television: Live in Chicago, the group’s hometown, and finally their seventh studio set Sky Blue Sky. The group released its most recent and first synonymous set a month after Bennett’s accidental overdose in his home, and Wilco has since been touring in support of its psychedelic power pop music.