Though Wilco [ tickets ] is currently taking a break from a relentless string of live performances that began last summer, the group will be back on the road in February.

The band so far has lined up more than a dozen dates, focusing on the Midwest and South. Tickets for the February shows will roll out throughout December. Pre-sale tickets will be offered; details are available at Wilco's website.

Prior to the February run, the Chicago rock band will usher in the New Year with a show at New York's Madison Square Garden that also features The Flaming Lips and Sleater-Kinney.

Wilco's latest album, "A Ghost is Born," hit stores in June. The band co-produced the set with Jim O'Rourke, who engineered the group's previous release, 2002's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."

Joining Wilco's touring band this year are keyboardist/guitarist Pat Sansone (The Autumn Defense) and guitarist Nels Cline.

Earlier this year, the band was sidelined for a time when Tweedy checked himself into a Chicago rehab clinic for treatment of an addiction to painkillers that he said he developed while battling migraine headaches.