May’s classic album of the month is (I’m sure you guessed it already) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco.  Here’s the story behind this album which you may have heard already. I’ll let wikipedia tell it (edited):

Shortly after the recording sessions for Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, Wilco purchased a studio in Irving Park, Chicago, which they named the Wilco Loft.^[45]
The band recorded some tracks in the studio in early 2000 for a fourth
studio album.
Wilco had recorded an entire album of music at this point, but Tweedy
was unhappy with the drum parts. Tweedy brought drummer Glen Kotchke in to re-record the drum parts. This angered the rest of the band as they felt they might be replaced also.

Although Bennett (Co-songwriter) sought to act as both mixer and engineer for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,
Tweedy was unsure of Bennett’s abilities against those of Jim O’Rourke.
Tweedy and Bennett frequently argued over whether the album should be
accessible to a general listener, or attempt to cover new musical
ground.^[48]
Unbeknownst to Bennett, Tweedy invited O’Rourke to remix “I Am Trying
to Break Your Heart”, and the results impressed the other band
members—even Bennett. Tensions grew between Bennett and O’Rourke
because Bennett wanted to mix every song on the album. O’Rourke cut the contributions of other members on several of the songs. The album was completed in 2001, and Bennett left the band immediately afterwards.^[50] The recording of the album was documented by Sam Jones and released in 2002 as the film I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.

Time Warner, which owned Warner Brothers, merged with America Online
in 2001, leading to more pressure on Warner’s record labels to cut
costs. Over 600 employees of Warner Music Group were fired, including
Howie Klein, the president of Reprise Records. In absence of Klein,
David Kahne became the interim head of Reprise.^[51] Kahne assigned Mio Vukovic to monitor the progress of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and to offer suggestions. Music journalist Greg Kot claims that Vukovic
disdained the album and was unhappy that Wilco ignored his suggestions.^[52]
He brought the album to Kahne, who felt that there was no single on the
album. In June 2001, the album was rejected by Reprise and Wilco was asked to leave the label.^[53]

Wilco managed to negotiate terms to a buy-out from Reprise. Music
journalist Greg Kot claims that instead of financial compensation, the
band agreed to leave the label with the master tapes of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.^[54] The label was already receiving bad publicity for its treatment of the band and were willing to accommodate Wilco’s request.^[55] However, Allmusic claims that Wilco “bought the finished studio tapes from Warner/Reprise
for a reported $50,000 and left the label altogether” after Wilco was “[u]nwilling to change the album to make it more ‘commercially viable’”^[56]

As the band searched for a new label to release the album, they
decided to stream it at their official website to discourage illegal
trading of low-quality MP3s.^[58] The band signed with Nonesuch Records, another Time Warner subsidiary, and the album was released in the spring of 2002. When it was released, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot reached number thirteen on the Billboard 200, Wilco’s highest chart position to that date.^[59] Yankee Hotel Foxtrot sold over 590,000 copies, and to date remains Wilco’s best selling album.^[60] Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
was met with wide critical acclaim: it topped 2002′s Pazz & Jop
critics’ poll, was named one of the 100 greatest albums of all time by Q Magazine, and was named one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone.^[61][62][63]

Thanks Wiki.  Now you know the story.  Here’s a song.

Wilco-Jesus, Etc.