Wilco releasing new song to benefit Southern Poverty Law Center

[Tanuki]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chicagoinc/ct-wilco-all-lives-you-say-20170815-story.html

"Chicago band Wilco released a new song Monday to raise money for the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that monitors hate groups.

Fans can download "All Lives, You Say?," a reference to the "all lives matter" response to the Black Lives Matter movement, for $1 at Wilco's Bandcamp page.

The donations will be made in honor of Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy's father, Robert,who died Aug. 4 at 83 in downstate Belleville.

"My dad was named after a Civil War general, and he voted for Barack Obama twice. He used to say 'If you know better, you can do better.' America — we know better. We can do better," Tweedy said in a statement.

The new music comes days after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., and nearly a year after Wilco dropped its most recent album "Schmilco." The band is in the middle of a fall tour that doesn't include any local dates. Tweedy is scheduled to play the Ellnora guitar festival in Urbana on Sept. 16."


 

[underpants]

1. Jerry's guitar was auctioned for the SPLC too

Good for Wilco