Mike Spry

“‘The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State,’ Mr. Trump wrote on social media. ‘This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear.

Peter Anspach and Rick Mitarotonda discuss the band’s new album Dripfield, staying level-headed, and their official take on jam bands. America loves it some labels. The calculus of our understanding must be as simple as possible. Try filling out a job application or tax form without defining yourself several times over so that in some cubicle far away, you can be properly designated. Watch CNN during an election: White suburban straight women vote in this way and no other.

Reflections on the latest installment of Wilco’s weekend festival in North Adams, Massachusetts—and a few that preceded it. It’s a cold, rainy October night in 1997—perhaps a redundant weather report for Vancouver. I get out of a cab in front of the Starfish Room. At the same time, from a white Econoline tour van parked in front of the club emerges a plaid-clad boilerman and we meet at the door, head up the treacherous damp staircase together.