In the wake of last week's tragedies, My Morning Jacket drop one of their best songs in years.

Jim James has always been about that blue tuxedo, 70s slow dance, soul prom sound. In addition to throwing actual prom shows with My Morning Jacket, he’s readily embraced kitschy sentimental sounds and ideas that may have been seen as tacky to other singers save for Destroyer. His saving grace is a winking sense of […]

Aaron Frank reps Louisville like DeJuan Wheat. It’s easy to look at the artwork and promotion leading up to Circuital and guess that My Morning Jacket’s sixth album is heavily conceptual.  It’s not — even though the Louisville quintet’s last two albums attempted something similar. Instead, Circuital comes off like it’s trying to articulate a […]

My Morning Jacket |Storytellers |Free Music Videos |New Artists Jim James talking grandmothers, vans, flashes of light, and setlist staple, “Golden.” It’s been three years since Evil Urges and My Morning Jacket is long overdue for new material that doesn’t sound like “Highly Suspicious.” Hence next month’s Circuital, with its eponymous lead single that can […]

Three different people texted me from the Greek Theatre last Thursday night to tell me that Jim James was “melting faces.” One of them was Frank N’ Beats baron, Aaron Frank, so I suspect that it was the truth, or at least something closely resembling it. Clearly, I blew it by staying home and attempting […]