With an eye toward their Wordstock appearance and next week's LiveWire! taping, tonight we offer up an encore presentation of our in-studio session with Portland's Weinland, who for a time will probably also be addendumed, "The Band Formerly Known As John Weinland." The band stopped by our Portland studios late this past summer and put down a stunning set of new and old tunes, so nice we're playing it twice. There's been plenty of news for them since, including wrapping up work on their forthcoming Badman Records full-length, entitled La Lamentor and slated for an early March '08 release. Next weekend's performance is part of LiveWire!'s 3rd Annual Wordstock Extravaganza, and they'll be sharing the stage with Peter Sagal, Harry Shearer (no relation to Weinland frontman Adam, apparently), Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding), Carrie Akre, and others.

Also tonight, we'll get to the first we've heard from the outstanding and outstandingly large compilation of Bob Dylan covers that make up the I'm Not There soundtrack. Perhaps inspired by the fact that the Todd Haynes film features portrayals of Dylan by six different actors, the soundtrack takes that even further with 34 of his tunes covered by an impressive and diverse list, Calexico, Willie Nelson, Jeff Tweedy, Cat Power, Sonic Youth, Eddie Vedder, Iron & Wine, John Doe, Stephen Malkmus, and Yo La Tengo among them. The thing is, it sounds every bit as good as it looks on paper.

Plus, we'll hear music from several artists performing in the area this weekend, including Saturday Looks Good to Me, The Bird & the Bee, and more, AND new and recent releases from Jens Lekman, Ween, Soulsavers, and more.

Hear: OPB in-studio with Weinland

See: photos from Weinland's OPB session

Posted by jpetersen on Saturday, November 3 at 8:55pm