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Party people of Lake Wobegon! Whoot whoot! Throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care, 'cause Wilco's coming to town.

On May 12, Jeff Tweedy and his band of dirty, dangerous Chicago rock n rollers will invade Garrison Keillor's beloved down-home radio show "A Prairie Home Companion", blasting small-town eardrums from here to Fargo. The show airs from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Central -- check your local listings for which station carries it, or listen on one of them newfangled computing machines.

Thanks to reader Josh Dibley for the heads up.

While Wilco will probably play a charming set of feel-good favorites and end with a "California Stars" sing-along, part of me really, really wants them to just get up there and play the noize part of "Less Than You Think" for a half hour.

The show will be broadcast from the State Theater in big, bad Minneapolis, but rest assured, it will probably sound like a barn dance to all of you out there in radioland.

Since this is not the movie version of "Prairie Home Companion", Lindsay Lohan will not be there. (Sorry, Dad.) Nor will Meryl Streep. (Sorry, Mom.)

Wilco's new album, Sky Blue Sky, is out on Nonesuch on May 15, but you can hear it right now, streaming from the band's website or on Rhapsody. The band will appear on "Letterman" on May 15, and will spend most of the summer on the road.

And check out Pitchfork's interview with Jeff Tweedy here!

Wilco tour dates:

05-12 Minneapolis, MN - State Theater (Prairie Home Companion)
05-19 Somerset, England - Butlins Minehead (ATP)
05-20 London, England - Shepherds Bush Empire
05-21 London, England - Shepherds Bush Empire
05-23 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall *
05-24 Berlin, Germany - Kesselhaus *
05-25 Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit 36 *
05-26 Dresden, Germany - Alter Schlachthof *
05-28 Stuttgart, Germany - Longhorn *
05-29 Paris, France - Le Bataclan *
05-30 Gent, Belgium - De Vooruit *
05-31 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso *
06-02 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
06-13 Davenport, IA - Adler Theater #
06-14 Cincinnati, OH - Aronoff Center #
06-15 Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theater #
06-17 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
06-19 Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park Amphitheatre #
06-20 Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium #
06-21 Washington, DC - Merriweather Post Pavilion #
06-22 Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theater #
06-24 Northampton, MA - The Pines #
06-25 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom #
06-26 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw #
06-28 Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion #
06-29 Shelburne, VT - The Green at Shelburne Museum #
06-30 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall #
07-07 Kongsberg, Norway - Kongsberg Jazz Festival
07-08 Copenhagen, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-13 Suffolk, England - Latitude Festival
07-14 Glasgow, Scotland - Indian Summer Festival
07-15 Dour, Belgium - Dour Festival
07-17 Turin, Italy - Spaciale Festival
07-20 Benicassim, Spain - Festival Internacional de Benicassim

* with Carla Bozulich
# with Low