My Morning Jacket Announces OH & MI Dates...

My Morning Jacket is proud to announce additional US tour dates in celebration of their forthcoming album, Circuital. Joining them on the road will be Neko Case, who will be opening the stage most of August. The band will donate $1 from every ticket sold to local charity.

Tour Dates:
7/2 Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
8/2 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
8/3 Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater

Tour Dates w/ Neko Case:
8/7 Indianapolis, IN – The Lawn at White River State Park
8/8 Columbus, OH – LC Pavilion
8/10 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
8/12 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
8/14 Boston, MA – Bank Of America Pavilion
8/16 Detroit, MI – Meadow Brook
8/17 Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
8/20 Alpharetta, GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
8/21 Charlotte, NC – Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheater

Video: My Morning Jacket Announce Live Stream...

MMJ Storytellers Premieres June 3rd...

From VH1.com:
My Morning Jacket front man Jim James declared “[touring] ain’t what like the Beastie Boys promised!” as they ripped into fan-favorite “One Big Holiday” in front of an intimate 200 member-audience last night at the taping of VH1 Storytellers at Metropolis Studios in New York, NY.

The hour-long VH1 Storytellers episode will feature the band performing a selection of songs including “Gideon,” “Dondante,” and a new track, “Wonderful,” from their upcoming album. While introducing “Dondante,” an emotional James told the story of the childhood friend who gave him his first guitar, formed their first band and collectively dreamed of appearing on VH1 Storytellers. That friend has since died, but James explained that he was with them on stage in spirit as their boyhood dream came true last night.

James also spoke of hitting the road during the beginning of the band’s burgeoning career. Prior to setting out on tour in a new van, James was spending Christmas with his grandmother, who asked James if he would be playing music in bars. When James responded with a yes, his grandmother said that “bars are dark and lonely places,” a warning that turned into a key line of the song “Golden.”

Viewers at home will gain a unique opportunity to hear My Morning Jacket share additional stories and insight into their unique songwriting process. This exclusive performance, VH1 Storytellers: My Morning Jacket will premiere on Friday, June 3rd.

Several online-exclusive performances from the show will be available at Storytellers.VH1.com leading up to and following the on-air premiere. The full show will be available at Storytellers.VH1.com following the on-air premiere on Friday, June 3rd.

Now, for you die-hard My Morning Jacket fans out there, here was last night’s VH1 Storytellers setlist:
“Wordless Chorus”
“The Way That He Sings”
“Golden”
“Circuital”
“Movin Away”
“Dondante”
“Gideon”
“Smokin’ From Shootin’”
“Movin Away”
“Wonderful (The Way I Feel)”
“Lullabys, Legends & Lies (by Shel Silverstein)”
“One Big Holiday”

MMJ Play Louisville w/ Youth Orchestra...

From MyMorningJacket.com:

On Friday, October 29th, My Morning Jacket will be performing at University of Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center. Supporting the band will be the Louisville Youth Orchestra (LYO) and Louisville band Wax Fang. One dollar from every ticket sold will be going to the Louisville Youth Orchestra Continuing Education Scholarship, which raises money for at-risk youth to be able to attend school. The LYO was founded with the mission to provide high quality musical experiences and the opportunity to perform for the benefit of the Louisville community and its young musicians regardless of race, creed or economic circumstances. It is one of the oldest and largest youth orchestras in the US. The show will also continue the tradition of creating a “Local Louisville Village” inside the KFC Yum! Center, providing locally based businesses and non-profit organizations with a presence at their show.

Tickets for the show go on sale to the public on Saturday, August 14th at 10AM. A limited amount of tickets will be available at Ear X-Tacy on Thursday August 12th at 10AM, in celebration of the store’s 25th anniversary and its new location at 2226 Bardstown Road. In addition, My Morning Jacket will also be hosting a pre-sale to fans beginning at the same time. Check the MMJ shows page for information regarding the pre-sale, and other My Morning Jacket shows.

My Morning Jacket Takes 5 in NYC...

Eleven years into their career, Louisville’s My Morning Jacket have released five highly acclaimed, classic albums, the live concert album and DVD Okonokos, and have been revered for their legendary live performances. With such an expansive catalogue, it’s been impossible in recent years for the band to perform every last MMJ favorite for one venue… that is, until this October. In an unprecedented move, New York City’s Terminal 5 will be presenting a historic five night run of shows where the band will perform one of their albums in its entirety on each night.

The stint will kick off on Monday, October 18th with a performance of the Jacket’s debut, 1999’s The Tennessee Fire, and will be followed chronologically by their other four full-lengths, ending with 2008’s Evil Urges on Saturday the 23rd. After the given album is performed each night, the audience will be treated to a mix of favorites from the band’s catalog as well. The series of shows are sure to put a magnifying glass over the chameleonic band’s history, highlighting their remarkable tendency to perpetually evolve.

All of the dates will individually go on sale June 18th but for fans who want the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of experiencing all five nights, there will be a special pre-sale. Five-show ticket packages will go on sale June 14th. As with their current upcoming headlining tour dates in August, the band will be donating $1 from each ticket to a local charity. Please see below for more info on each charity and to purchase tickets, head over to www.terminal5nyc.com.

October 18 - The Tennesee Fire / Charity: Safe Haven of Pike County
www.safehavenofpikecounty.org

October 19 - At Dawn / Charity: The Innocence Project
www.innocenceproject.org

October 21 - It Still Moves / Charity: 826NYC
www.826nyc.org

October 22 - Z / Charity: New York Cares
www.newyorkcares.org

October 23 - Evil Urges / Charity: Sustainable South Bronx
www.ssbx.org

Break Out Your Spring (My Morning) Jacket...

This notice to fans announcing a Live EP release popped up on their site:

hello friends. we are proud to announce and release a lil live ep that was recorded right in our very own hometown of louisville, ky. a few songs were taken from our in-store appearance at our beloved and fabled record haven “ear-x-tacy” and a few of them were taken from our concert at the fabled “waterfront park.” see if you can guess which is from which. we are excited to make this a special release that you can only get at your favorite local independent record store, as now more than ever we all need to take the time to celebrate what our favorite local record stores and businesses mean to us - the value of community/human to human non- internet related physical and spiritual contact and supporting the hardworking people in your community who strive everyday to keep it unique and keep it local. we are fortunate in our travels to get to see many wonderful things, but one of the most distressing things is the increasing “normalization” of the world and how all these places are starting to look the same- everywhere you look more and more towns are starting to be filled with the same gigantic corporations, and while some of these huge companies undoubtedly provide valuable services, it is so important that we realize that it is our local businesses and people (and natural landscapes, but that's a different letter) that are what make different towns worth coming to…things you can only get in one place, made and sold by people who believe in what they are doing…people who are trying to keep good weirdness alive in this crazy dome. god* bless all of you, and god* bless the world and all that kinda shit.

-yer pals, my morning jacket

p.s.- *the word “god*” is used here meaning anything you want it to mean and is a trademark of globo-chem worldwide.

The EP (in both CD and limited edition double 10″ vinyl) will be available at finer independent retailers beginning on Record Store Day, April 18.

Find a Independent Record Store nearest you.


My Morning Jacket from Tugboat Productions on Vimeo.

The track list is comprised of live cuts from two different shows in Louisville ~ one at local record shop, Ear-X-Tacy, and a performance at local landmark, Waterfront Park.

Tracklist For Celebración De La Ciudad Natal:
1. Evil Urges
2. Highly Suspicious
3. Gideon
4. Where To Begin
5. Librarian
6. Phone Went West
7. Dondante

MMJ Has New Year's Eve Covered...

By all accounts My Morning Jacket rang in the New Year in style at Madison Square Garden. Luckily, those who could not make this performance can enjoy it's goodness through the magic of Archive.org...someone who taped the show already has it posted & it sounds great! Over 30 songs including some classic covers...Celebration, Get Down On It, Express Yourself, Move On Up (see the video below). The countdown to midnight complete with Kool & the Gang's Celebration looked amazing (in all white tuxes).

Great photos on Brooklyn Vegan.

Intro & Move On Up


NYE Countdown & Celebration


Celebration 2 & Get Down On It


Express Yourself