Jeff Tweedy Covers Beck, Harry Nilsson During ‘Twilight Override’ Tour Stop At Belasco In L.A. [Photos/Videos]

Jeff Tweedy was bowled over by one thing innocuous, exactly due to how innocuous it was. During a lull between songs at The Belasco in downtown Los Angeles on Friday evening, a fan within the crowd on the Wilco frontman’s present shouted, merely, “Music!”

“Did you just say ‘music’?” Tweedy requested, frivolously incredulous, with amusing.

Little did that fan know, his innocuous shout would change into a meme—actually, the meme of the night—for the way plainly true it was. Indeed, this specific Tweedy chook would unwittingly flip the 1,500-capacity room right into a pandemonium of parrots as a result of, nicely, they have been all there for precisely that.

And music is strictly what Tweedy and his close-knit band offered on the outset of the California leg of the Twilight Override Tour. With his sons, Sammy and Spencer Tweedy, by his aspect—together with neighborhood kids-turned-bandmates in Macie Stewart, Sima Cunningham, and Liam Kazar—the 58-year-old Illinois boy guided the viewers via his newest solo album, 2025’s Twilight Override, together with choose songs from each his solo catalogue and that of his band Tweedy, whose core consists of Jeff and Spencer.

After Macie’s candy opening set, Tweedy and his full band started their proceedings with the opening quartet of songs off the newest launch. From the pure spirit of “One Tiny Flower” and the wistful L.A. reminiscences of “Caught Up In The Past”, to the spoken-word inner musings of “Parking Lot”, Tweedy didn’t waste any time bringing his core inventive self to bear on the efficiency.

Come “Forever Never Ends”, he invoked one thing of a youthful self, when Andy briefly left his multi-instrumental submit to sing the refrain at middle stage.

From that time on, Tweedy appeared to loosen, letting his dry wit and self-effacing persona shine beneath a dim highlight. He laid to relaxation any hopes of Wilco songs seeping into the setlist when he teased older materials “but not as old as some of you probably hoped” en path to “Low Key” and “World Away”, from the 2014 Tweedy album Sukierae. He shared a foolish story about his struggles with Sharpies—a peek at his “inner dialogue”—and warned the gang that there can be a “quiet” track incoming, and that they need to hush themselves accordingly, earlier than strolling into “Stray Cats in Spain”. Tweedy gave the viewers an identical heads-up previous to “New Orleans”, facetiously hoping {that a} slower second wouldn’t give attendees an excuse to raid the bar.

Though he quipped about being the identical mixed age because the bandmates he’d identified since their respective childhoods, Tweedy appeared to have essentially the most enjoyable of anybody taking part in along with his varied guitar-shaped toys. Between his Gibson Signature SG electrical, Jolana Iris, a collection of Fenders, and his many acoustics (Gibson and Martin alike), he saved his guitar tech a lot busy. But no piece of apparatus appeared to deliver Tweedy as a lot pleasure—or draw as a lot of a response from the gang—as his blue Kawai Moonsault, which he busted out for the Tweedy track “Flowering”.

Along the best way, Tweedy and his band seamlessly dipped out and in of his freshest materials, as if it had been woven into his catalogue for years. The vibe shift from “Mirrors” to “Western Clear Skies” was no extra pronounced than that which ensued into “Having Been Is No Way To Be”, from 2018’s WARM, or between the electrified “Gwendolyn” and sweetly acoustic “Love Is The King”, off the 2020 album named after the latter.

For all that Tweedy did to nod to his in depth non-Wilco discography—together with the drum-heavy psychedelia of “Diamond Light, Pt. 1”—Twilight Override dominated the evening, and rightfully so. With its 30 tracks unfold throughout three discs, it supplied no scarcity of splendid materials for the band to deliver to life. Even their greatest efforts managed to lend life to solely half of the album, with “No One’s Moving On” becoming a member of with the quotable “Feel Free” and the energetic “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter”, with its catchy chorus of “The dead don’t die,” at finish of the primary set.

The encore occasioned the return of “Music!” as a full-blown, Belasco-wide chant to attract the band again onstage. Once the night’s foremost meme subsided, Tweedy and firm settled again in with “Family Ghost”, which they devoted to your entire crowd after utilizing it to honor stray Americans at their most up-to-date European reveals.

From there, the band launched into its nightly ritual (at the very least on this tour) of one-time-only covers from artists native to the venue’s metropolis. In the case of L.A., Tweedy and firm selected Beck’s “Loser”—led by Sammy on the traditional hip-hop-style vocals—and Harry Nilsson’s “Jump Into The Fire”, with Jeff rocking out again within the lead.

The present then resulted in the identical means because the album it was billed to advertise: with the track “Enough”, in all of its abrupt glory. The band walked offstage to cheers, with some members hoping for extra chants of “Music!” to see them off.

Not that they have been in for a lot of a post-performance trek. Tweedy and his group can be again in downtown L.A. the following evening, for a lot the identical present (besides the encore) on the United Theater. Come Sunday, they’ll head up Interstate 101 to entertain extra followers by the seashore on the Majestic Ventura Theater, earlier than persevering with on to Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Napa, and Redding, with dates within the Pacific Northwest bridging March and April.

Wherever he goes, one factor is for certain: Jeff Tweedy will deliver loads of music with him.

And now, maybe, even some such chants in addition.

Jeff Tweedy – “Loser” (Beck) – 3/20/26

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Jeff Tweedy – “Jump Into The Fire” (Harry Nilson) – 3/20/26

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