Waxahatchee, Thundercat and extra to play Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky competition

Wilco have introduced the lineup for the second version of their very own competition, Sky Blue Sky.

The vacation spot competition will come to the Onerous Rock Lodge in Riviera Maya, Mexico subsequent 12 months, and have Stephen Malkmus, Waxahatchee, Thundercat and extra.

Additionally taking part in the competition, which is about to happen over the weekend of January 17-22, 2022, are Spoon, Kurt Vile & The Violators and Wilco themselves, who will play three exhibits over the course of the occasion.

See the complete lineup for Sky Blue Sky beneath, and get tickets here from Could 27.

Final 12 months, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy introduced that he could be donating 5% of his songwriting royalties to Black Lives Matter shifting forwards, and set out a plan for reparations to be made throughout the music business.

“The fashionable music business is constructed virtually totally on Black artwork. The wealth that rightfully belonged to Black artists was stolen outright and to this present day continues to develop outdoors their communities,” he wrote.

Tweedy added: “It’s not an exaggeration to say our tradition wouldn’t be our tradition with out black genius. There’s a shameful historical past there, and there are issues the business ought to nonetheless be ashamed of. There are issues about the best way Black artists are handled right now which are totally different and unfair. It isn’t an equal taking part in area.”

Elsewhere, Tweedy is about to seem on ‘The Superior Album’, the forthcoming album from fictional band Mouse Rat, Chris Pratt’s band from TV present Parks and Recreation.

Within the present’s sixth collection, Tweedy seems as Scott Tanner of fictional native band Land Ho! and can characteristic on the album as his character on the songs ‘Pickled Ginger’ and ‘Chilly Water’.