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UM Productions announced Friday that rock supergroup Wilco will perform a concert at the Adams Center on May 5. The band, which last appeared in Missoula in 2003 as the opening act for R.E.M., will headline its first concert in Missoula since performing at the University Center Ballroom in November of 2001.

Tickets to the concert go on sale to the general public on Friday, March 21, at 8:30 a.m., at a price of $29 plus fees. Tickets will be sold via GrizTix outlets including the Source at the UC, Worden's Market, the Adams Center Box Office, Southgate Mall, by phone at 243-4051 or 1-888-MONTANA, and online at www.griztix.com. Both general admission and reserved seating will be available.

UM students, faculty and staff will be able to purchase tickets during a presale period beginning on Tuesday, March 18, at 10 a.m. and ending on Thursday, March 20, at 4:30 p.m. Those presale tickets, which cost $24 plus fees, may be purchased only on campus at the Adams Center Box Office or the Source at the UC, with valid Griz Card.

Led by singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy, Wilco emerged from the Americana music scene of the 1990s to become one of rock's most unpredictable and creative bands of the new millennium. Its 2002 album, “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” combined gritty yet melodic guitar rock with unusual time signatures and unconventional drum beats to create an album that was described as “complex and dangerously catchy, lyrically sophisticated and provocative, noisy and somehow serene - a masterpiece” by PitchforkMedia.com in a rare 10-out-of-10 review.

The album, ironically, was rejected by the band's label as being “a career-ender,” but it in fact launched the group into a new stratosphere of popularity after it was picked up and released by the Nonesuch label. The independent film, “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,” chronicled the band's tribulations with the record.

The band's follow-up records, 2004's “A Ghost is Born” and 2007's “Sky Blue Sky,” further cemented the group's reputation as the most adventurous roots-rock band in the modern American scene.

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