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After receiving treatment for a longtime addiction to painkillers, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy was recently released from a Chicago rehab clinic, and is officially ready to get back in the game, supporting Wilco's forthcoming full-length, A Ghost Is Born. "It's something I've struggled with for a long time," Tweedy told Rolling Stone, "and even further back, I struggled with depression and anxiety and panic disorder. I went to a dual diagnosis center that treated the chemical dependency and the depression. I had never put it together that these things were intertwined, the depression, the migraines and the medication. I'm not embarrassed about it at all. It was a really beautiful experience. I spent a lot of time sitting in a room with crack addicts whose lives were total wrecks, but they were putting their lives back together. All my best friends now are crack addicts."

With that setback finally out of the way, Wilco are preparing for an intense touring regimen that, after a few celebratory shows at Otto's in Dekalb, Illinois, will kick off May 28th at Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival. Currently, the band has 32 shows planned in support of A Ghost Is Born, which is due out on June 22nd, with many more to follow. In June, they'll play six U.S. dates, before jetting off to 19 more shows in Europe. They aren't scheduled to return to North America until August, when they'll hit Lollapalooza in Detroit, Toronto and Cleveland, and the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. Dates:

05-19 Dekalb, IL - Otto's
05-20 Dekalb, IL - Otto's
05-28 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
06-06 Pittsburgh, PA - Three Rivers Arts Festival
06-07 Poughkeepsie, NY - The Chance
06-08 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
06-09 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
06-11 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival
06-12 Chicago, IL - The Vic

06-20 Oslo, Norway - Norwegian Wood Festival
06-22 Birmingham, UK - Academy
06-23 Portsmouth, UK - Wedgewood Rooms
06-25 Somerset, UK - Glastonbury Festival
06-26 Hamburg, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-27 Stuttgart, Germany - Southside Festival
06-29 Brescia, Italy - San Barnadinon Institute
06-30 Zurich, Switzerland - Volkshaus
07-01 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
07-03 Bonn, Germany - Rheinkultur Festival
07-04 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
07-06 Copenhagen, Denmark - Klub Vega
07-07 Gothenburg, Sweden - Tradgar Accelerator Festival
07-08 Stockholm, Sweden - Munchen Brewery Accelerator Festival
07-10 Weert, Holland - Bospop Festival
07-11 Dublin, Ireland - Oxegen Festival
07-13 Glasgow, Scotland - Queen Margaret Union
07-14 Manchester, UK - Academy
07-15 London, UK - Astoria

08-03 Detroit, MI - Lollapalooza
08-06 Toronto, ON - Lollapalooza
08-08 Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival
08-10 Cleveland, OH - Lollapalooza