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This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s. Portishead – Third (Island Records) Muscular synthesizers, drum breaks and abrupt endings keeping the tension high. In a few words this is how Portishead’s third studio release, suggestively titled “Third,” sounds like. An amalgam of noise, distortions and Eastern Bloc minimalism is what the first listener might…
Sticking with the theme of popular rock bands’ guitarists doin’ their own “string” (thing), I notice that My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel has emerged from under his floppy fringe, politely brandishing a brand new album, All Birds Say, which is due out at the (wag)tail end of August. Strangely, his website seems to wilfully ignore the existence of Broemel’s previous album, Lose What’s Left, presumably because it was made pre-indie-fame, as opposed to ignoring it…
This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) At the beginning of the decade, one of the nation’s most talented songwriters Sufjan Stevens endeavored in a project as ambitious as it was preposterous, called The Fifty States project. Sufjan intended to share his vision on American life and culture…
On this year’s Memorial Day weekend (29-31 May) all attention will be shifted towards the little town of Gorge, Washington where the massive Sasquatch 2010 Festival is set to unfold. A complete and final press release is yet to have been released, but even so the line-up is more than impressive. The headlining acts for the fest are newly reformed Pavement, joined by My Morning Jacket and Massive Attack who all share top bunks for…
As previously reported, yesterday night American Dad was all about Louisville’s finest, My Morning Jacket. I didn’t get to see the full episode yet, but from the couple of teasers and short rips on youtube it looks damn hilarious. A lot more humorous than one would expect anyway, even though they had plenty of material to go work with. Bellow you can find a few YouTube clips of scenes from the last night’s American Dad…
If The Simpsons managed to land a Coldplay guest spot for their forthcoming 20th anniversary episode, there’s no reason another satirical TV show can’t have a top band guesting. Seth MacFarlane’s American Dad is going all indie on the show’s November 22nd episode,which will be all My Morning Jacket-centric. The episode is even titled “My Morning Straitjacket”. For the fans, here’s a quick synopsis: Stan Smith (the main character) becomes obsessed with the band My…
Have I ever mentioned what’s my second favorite super group of the year? Coming before The Dead Weather, and beneath the Josh Homme/Dave Grohl/J.P Jones extravaganza (you can’t possibly compete with this. sorry) is the newly confirmed Monsters of Folk, comprised of Jim James (My Morning Jacket), M. Ward (solo/She & Him), Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes). Exactly what I thought too! The first single off the MoF’s upcoming self titled is “Say…
Quick news thingy: courtesy of the ever-regrettable Pitchfork.com, it’s been revealed that My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James will be releasing an EP of George Harrison covers, entitled Tribute To (through ATO). Consisting of two Beatles songs that Harrison wrote, and four songs from Harrison’s All Things Must Pass solo record. And, in true “I do most things just to amuse myself” Jim James style, he’ll be releasing it under the devilishly cunning pseudonym, Yim…
Finally, My Morning Jacket, or whoever’s handling their promotion, thought about making a video for my favorite track off Evil Urges, the harmonic epic “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 2.” The video features a googly-eyed critter on a quest to free some fireflies and reunite them with some werido orchids, going through jungles, infected caves in the process. Nothing beats this little fellow. Anyway, the video’s beautifully animated and directed by The Mixtape…
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