My Music Journal 2025: July 18, 2025

 

Friday, July 18, 2025

Time: 4:23 PM
Song: You’re Gone
Artist: Uncle Tupelo
Mode of Consumption: Listening “Release Radar” on Spotify.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/3Rf7lj0sNBomD4thfLjO7t?si=13bb477802094db5

Well, here’s a mystery.

In my Release Radar, the song “You’re Gone” appears by Uncle Tupelo. When I click on it, it takes me to a screen showing this as a single released in 2025. Hmmm.

My little knowledge about the band who was an underground alternative country group in the 1990s is that the two main figures in the group – Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar – would never reunite.

I had heard nothing to alter that belief that past few months or years.

Tweedy was still going strong as a frontman for Wilco, and as a solo act often working/performing with his son. Farrar has had minor, but steady success in Son Volt.

Let’s go to the Google machine. Did Uncle Tupelo reunite to release a song?

Nothing appears other than minor notes that this song was set to be released on July 17, 2025.

Maybe it’s an old song maybe that got lost in the shuffle back in the day that the group decided to release. It seems like that would appear in Google though. I don’t know, I like Uncle Tupelo, but I am far from an expert on their catalog.

A new collaboration though certainly would have attracted music writers and bloggers. Heck, I might be the first person to write about it, and I hardly consider myself a music writer.

Update: I decided to look on Twitter and it appears this could be AI generated. How Spotify allows someone to post a song with a band's name on it that they didn't create is beyond me.