Fresh off My Morning Jacket’s 20th anniversary reissue of Z, the band will appear on the latest episode of Austin City Limits. Jim James and company will also be inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame alongside the performance, with director Cameron Crowe presenting the award. The band’s …
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Jim James was going through a lot circa 2005, when he wrote the songs for what would become My Morning Jacket‘s classic fourth album, Z. Two of his close friends had taken their own lives, and James was drinking too much and grappling with depression. “I thought it would be …
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A few years ago, Jim James got to witness Brian Wilson‘s magic in realtime. They were in the studio together recording “Right Where I Belong,” a song from the documentary film Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road. The record turned out to be the last original song Wilson would release in …
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My Morning Jacket have occasionally been tagged a jam band, albeit one that exists on the less slapstick-y end of the jam spectrum. But they’ve also often been at their best when compacting their rangily spiritualist 21st century Southern rock into digestible studio servings. That is definitely the case with …
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What has rainbow grilled cheese platters, giant dancing bear cutouts, and Woody Harrelson wearing a tie dye tie? The MusiCares’ annual Persons of the Year Charity Gala, where the Grateful Dead are the 2025 honorees (with some “Friend of the Devil” food cake to celebrate.) “It’s an incredible honor and …
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My Morning Jacket are back, and their new album is is, their first studio LP in nearly four years. Jim James and the Lexington, Kentucky five-piece’s 10th studio album finds the band teaming with producer Brendan O’Brien for the 10-song LP, their first time working with an outside producer in …
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Park City Song Summit is back for a third year. On Tuesday, the Utah-based festival announced its lineup for this August featuring Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, My Morning Jacket, and Mavis Staples as headliners for the three-day event set for Aug. 15 through Aug. 17 at the Canyons …
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My Morning Jacket and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats have teamed up for a co-headlining tour that runs through September. Dubbed the Eye to Eye Tour, the bands will perform equal-length sets and switch the order of their performances with each show. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March …
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Sting, Incubus, Devo, and My Morning Jacket will shake the sands of Redondo Beach, California’s waterfront, this spring at the fifth installment of the BeachLife Festival. Other performers include Seal, Dirty Heads, Local Natives, Santigold, Trey Anastasio, Fleet Foxes, ZZ Top, and Courtney Barnett. Tickets for the three-day fest, which …
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The 11th edition of the Peach Music Festival is underway on Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania, with a roster of artists that highlight the fest’s musical-exploration aesthetic: headliners Tedeschi Trucks Band, Ziggy Marley, Lettuce, and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead all close out the fest today. Last night, Saturday headliners My …
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