WILCO New Album Plans, Tour Updates

      MUSIC NEWS- Wilco will enter the recording studio in October to start work on a new album anticipated for a spring 2009 release, according to Jeff Tweedy on a recent Albany, N.Y. radio station WAMC interview!  This follow-up to their 2007 "Sky Blue Sky" will be out on Nonesuch.  No word yet on track info or album name. 

In related news, Wilco is part of the lineup for Neil Young's 2008 Bridge School Benefit concert, held this year on October 25 & 26 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.  School co-founder Neil Young anchors the bill that, along with Wilco, features Jack Johnson, Cat Power, Sarah McLachlan and Death Cab for Cutie.  The first day has performances from those artists and Norah Jones. ZZ Top performs only on day one, while Smashing Pumpkins and Josh Groban perform only on day two. Mr Young, who hosts the annual, mostly-acoustic event, has played every year since he launched the benefit show in 1986.  Proceeds from the event support the Bridge School's work with children that have severe physical and speech impediments.  This year's show is in the middle of Young's fall North American tour.  He has support from Death Cab For Cutie on the first leg of his tour and Wilco on the second portion.