Nels Cline
2021Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
Lee Ranaldo, Jonathan Lethem
Filmed during dozens of recording sessions, Hello Hello Hello is a story of the creative process - Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) collaborating with producer Raül Refree, across a year and 3,842 miles with a little help from their friends. Novelist Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude) plays writer/lyricist/muse to Ranaldo's artist/composer wanderings, across soundscapes created alongside friends and musical guest artists including Nels Cline (Wilco), Sharon Van Etten, Alan Licht, Kid Millions (Oneida), and Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth). Theirs is an unusually intimate and personal process in the creation of Ranaldo's album, Electric Trim (Mute, 2017), a bold, new sound and a lush and striking departure from Ranaldo's signature work.
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
Wilco: Live from Columbia City Theater
Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt
It was an afternoon of contrasts when Wilco performed for a packed room of KEXP donors at Columbia City Theater on August 10, 2015. You've never seen a sold out show so quiet, so reverently enraptured, as the band presented song after song in their set, ranging from old favorites to new singles from their recent surprise full-length, Star Wars. But once each song ended? The roar of applause was deafening, and the love from fans so intense, that even frontman Jeff Tweedy seemed taken aback, lowering his hand jokingly at the audience to get us to stop cheering. But no one could resist singing quietly along with the Woody Guthrie track "California Stars," uniting the entire room in song. It was a beautiful moment, encapsulating what brought us all together that day: raising funds for KEXP's New Home, so we can continue to enrich lives with "music that matters."
Wilco: Live from Columbia City Theater