Straying away, but not that far away from 2002’s Yankee Foxtrot Hotel and 2004’s A Ghost Is Born, Wilco has teamed up with Nels Cline — one of Rolling Stone’s top 20 New Guitar Gods — for their latest album, Sky Blue Sky (TMT Review), which was released last year. In support, Wilco has been hitting the road hard and are continuing to ride highways until they run out of highways to ride, adding the ever popular Lollapolooza that will have them playing alongside the likes of Thom Yorke and Nine Inch Nails.

And you know what? Tweedy lives in my neighborhood. Actually that’s just a rumor, but I’m pretty sure, like 85% sure, he lives in my neighborhood. And if that’s true, he probably lives in my neighborhood for the same reasons I do: it’s quiet and away from all the skinny hipster kids, but not so far that, when we both want to pretend we are skinny hipster kids, we can slip into our Levi’s and take the train on down to hipster park.

But I do know this for a fact: Tweedy babysat this one boy I knew from a class I took downtown Chicago one summer, ages ago. And I know this for a fact, too: Tweedy is a cool and sweet guy.

The boys are out expanding that yellow brick road, so they never ever have to leave the Land of Oz:

04.30.08 - Rochester, MN - May Civic Center 05.01.08 - Fargo, ND - Fargo Civic Auditorium 05.02.08 - Winnipeg, MB - Burton Cummings Theatre 05.04.08 - Bozeman, MT - Emerson Cultural Center 05.05.08 - Missoula, MT - Adam’s Center 05.07.08 - Grand Junction, CO - Avalon Theatre 05.08.08 - Colorado Springs, CO - Pikes Peak Center 05.09.08 - Albuquerque, NM - Popejoy Hall 05.11.08 - Austin, TX - Stubb’s 05.12.08 - Austin, TX - Stubb’s 05.14.08 - Lawrence, KS - 10th and New Hampshire 05.15.08 - St Louis, MO - The Pageant 05.16.08 - St.Louis, MO - The Pageant 05.17.08 - St.Louis, MO - The Pageant 07.25.08 - Fairbanks, AK - The Blue Loon 07.26.08 - Anchorage, AK - The Moose’s Tooth 08.01.08 - Chicago, IL - Lollapolooza 08.02.08 - Chicago, IL - Lollapolooza 08.03.08 - Chicago, IL - Lollapolooza 08.07.08 - Charleston, SC - North Charleston PAC 08.10.08 - Wilmington, DE - Grand Opera House 08.12.08 - Lenox, MA - Tanglewood 08.13.08 - Brooklyn NY - Mccarren Pool 08.24.08 - San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival 08.29.08 - Country Laois, Ireland - Electric Picnic, Stradbally Hall 08.30.08 - Country Laois, Ireland - Electric Picnic, Stradbally Hall 08.31.08 - Country Laois, Ireland - Electric Picnic, Stradbally Hall