Things are looking up for our dear Jeff Tweedy. He's spending time with the family, helping out around the house, smiling a lot more and playing cherry music with his band. Here, in light of Wilco's seventh LP, Sky Blue Sky, Tweedy sits down at the dinner table with Filter to discuss the prior storm surrounding his gang of No Depression allstars, their current easy breezy masterpiece, and the clear skies ahead.

Also in Issue 25: Leonard Cohen shares the wealth of his hard-earned wisdom while insisting that he's no teacher; Canadian songstress Feist gets takes a deep breath before she lets us in on the secret of laughter; Beastie Boy MCA interrogates punk rock revolutionaries the Bad Brains; we pay respect to the gangly, awkward poised and spectacled genius of Pulp and the inimitable Jarvis Cocker; Smog’s Bill Callahan sheds his pseudonymous moniker, and speaks straight from the soul (while contributing original artwork); we go a round (read: booze and boxing) with the National, who manage to stand tall throughout; and acclaimed journalist Michael Azzerad takes us into the heart and mind of Kurt Cobain as we discuss the film, Kurt Cobain About A Son.