Over the course of more than 20 years, My Morning Jacket has gradually mutated from a Southern indie rock curiosity to, perhaps predictably, stalwarts of the jamband scene. Phish is on pause? No worries. My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James […]
This week’s 17th edition of WXPN’s Non-COMMvention drew hundreds of programmers, managers, publicists, and a variety of Triple A (Adult Album Alternative) radio and music insiders from across the US. The iconic Philadelphia station, which is the home of the […]
Last Saturday on the first of August My Morning Jacket took the St. Augustine Amphitheatre by storm. They’re on tour to promote their new album entitled The Waterfall. For having never seen these guys before they definately are within the jam band […]
My Morning Jacket’s mystical musical powers seemed to be waning on their last two albums. There was a restlessness at play, a desire to shrug off the shackles of cosmic Americana rock and show they could do anything, or at […]
Okay, I love My Morning Jacket. I’d never seen them live. I got an invitation from the fantastic KCRW to attend a live show at Mack Sennet Studios to see them play their excellent new album, The Waterfall. I was there. Gnarly […]
This disc should come with one of those “you must be this tall to ride” amusement park signs: The fifth studio album from My Morning Jacket roars through myriad peaks, dips, and loop-de-loops in 55 minutes. Sussing out who might […]
My Morning Jacket never quite breaks loose, and swings only insofar as all American music swings, or pays lip service to the idea. At times, they’re reminiscent of a calibrated sludge-rock group like the Move. They shuffle big blocks of […]
Z is buoyant, an interstate away from the Jacket’s major-label debut It Still Moves, which sounded as if our shaggy heroes were constructing a silo between themselves and their clingy early fans. As one of those pitiful mouthbreathers, I didn’t […]
Do not underestimate My Morning Jacket. Like the Byrds or Lone Justice, they are an act that defies easy classification, providing a perfect gateway for fans of one genre into the joys of another. Such is their draw that folks […]
Its obvious from the leadoff/title track of their sophomore album that Louisvilles My Morning Jacket has big plans. Frontman Jim James is told to forget his musical dreams, to which he responds, Thats when my knife rises, their life ends […]
