In the 1990s, American alternative rock was bursting with ideas, scenes and short-lived revolutions. Many of the bands that helped define the era burned brightly and disappeared just as quickly, but Wilco took a different path. Emerging from the ashes of the pioneering alt-country group Uncle Tupelo, Jeff Tweedy and his collaborators refused to settle into a fixed identity, instead treating the band as a constantly evolving idea. Alongside their restless experimentation, Wilco’s enduring strength has always been the songs themselves: richly detailed lyrics, quietly devastating melodies and a rare ability to turn uncertainty into something both intimate and expansive. That tension between experimentation and classic songcraft became strikingly clear on “Summerteeth” (1999), where pop ambition, studio playfulness and emotional unease were pushed to the foreground, before reaching a defining moment with “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” (2002) — an album that allowed fragmentation, noise and restraint to coexist with some of the band’s most unforgettable writing. Rather than resolving that contradiction, Wilco have continued to work inside it. Some that the recent EP “Hot Sun Cool Shroud” (2024) underlines. Three decades into their career, Wilco remain not a legacy act but a living one, and this summer one of modern rock’s most influential and uncompromising bands are coming to Way Out West.