My Morning Jacket & Others - "Dear New Orleans" Benefit Album

On top of getting a kick a*s bunch of tunes, you'll be helping out a good cause. Order this today! You've got our favorites, My Morning Jacket, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Steve Earle and plenty more. It's got 31 tracks and is only $12 and, if feeling generous, you can toss them an extra couple few pieces of scratch just to be a good person.

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New Video -MGMT - "Congratulations"

(Via Pitchfork)

Video: MGMT: "Congratulations": "
You're never going to believe this, but the new MGMT video is pretty weird! The clip for 'Congratulations' finds the boys wandering through the desert, watching in horror as their adorable beaked camel-monster buddy gradually loses limbs and falls to pieces. If you have a ton of affection for cute, rubbery Star Wars-looking critters, you may want to sit this one out. For everyone else, prepare yourself for a particularly freaky bum-out below, via Pedestrian.tv.

Jeff Luke Photography - My Morning Jacket - 2010-08-17 - Chicago, IL

 Since starting this blog I've had the opportunity to meet all sorts of people from all sorts of places that do all sorts of things. One of those people from one of those places is the immensely talented photographer Jeff Luke from Minneapolis, MN. We met at the pair of rescheduled My Morning Jacket concerts (after Jim's fall) in Chicago and have kept in touch ever since. His camera seems to be an extension of his body that is capable of capturing the perfect moment in time, every time. I'll stop talking though, check out the shots at his fantastic new website and try to tell me differently.

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Jeff Luke Photography - MMJ - 2010-08-17

My Morning Jacket and Rufus Leaking see a double rainbow

My Morning Jacket - Chicago, IL - 2010-08-17

The above photo's are from the remarkably talented Jeff Luke.

Photo by the marvelous Erica McKeehan. More MMJ Chicago shots here.

Kelly Casey, you are officially a hero of mine. Thank you so so much for taping the Chicago My Morning Jacket show. It was an excellent night and this recording will serve as a great reminder of it.

Check out "Masterplan" below.

01. Opening Song

02. Rolling Back*> 

03. The Way That He Sings

04. Gideon>

05. Mahgeetah

06. Dancefloors

07. Masterplan

08. Golden

09. Circuital

10. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Part 1

11. Anytime

12. Tonite I Want To Celebrate With You

13. Carried Away

14. I'm Amazed

15. Easy Morning Rebel>

16. Dondante

17. Smokin' From Shootin'>

18. Run Thru**> 

19. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Part 2>

20. Lay Low***

21. Encore: Bermuda Highway

22. Wordless Chorus

23. Off The Record

24. Steam Engine

25. One Big Holiday

*Instramental

**Second half, from the jam through the end

***Just the solo

Download - My Morning Jacket - Chicago, IL - 2010-08-17

My Morning Jacket - The Best Band on Planet Earth

Last night was a loud reminder why My Morning Jacket is the best band on this planet. They are a seemingly unstoppable force that simply can't be ignored. Whether it be collaborations with legendary song writers (John Prine most notably), teaming up with legends in the making (Monsters of Folk), working with established rap acts (The Roots), destroying huge festivals, playing with Jack White (Carl Broemel) or lending a hand to Dan Auerbach (Patrick in the Fast Five), you can't throw a stone in the legitimate music world without hitting one of these guys. And yes, while amazing on their own dabbling in various projects they truly are an incredibly fine, tight band that, when together, have a chemistry that science (or anything for that matter) can't explain.

As time lapses in between Jacket concerts I sort of forget what an event a My Morning Jacket concert actually is. It's a trip, it takes you places while standing in one spot. The way they weave genres of music into a seemless blanket of sound is an amazing feat that not many bands, ever, are or have been capable of. Their energy absorbs you the moment they hit the stage. For the time they're up there you're living inside their ever expanding bubble of incredible power.

Ugh. I just want to see more, thinking about not feeling the pulse of their songs played live damn near depresses me.

What the hell am I even writing about at this point?!?

LAST NIGHTS SHOW

Was truly incredible and maybe the best I've ever seen them. There was an insane amount of force coming from the boys last night. They were on. I mean, they're always on but last night, man o man, they were on and it was intense. As you can see by the set list below, they played one hell of a show. It would be super excellent if they released the new song "Circuital" on a 7 inch to tide us over until the next album. It's a great song to see live, I love Carl's lead guitar, it just grabs you and the guys kill it. I've seen some of these songs 10+ times live and you know what? Not a damn one of them is wearing on me. They consistantly put on the best concert I've ever seen. It's tough to even write about the show because it is difficult to convey the way I feel about it with words. It makes me want to hug you and then look you in the eyes and tell how incredible this all is. My Morning Jacket changes me and it makes me feel like no other music ever has. They are the best band on planet Earth.

My Morning Jacket - Live at Red Rocks - 2008-08-21

Photo by the great Amira Chrourou.

My excitement for tomorrow nights My Morning Jacket show at Northerly Island in Chicago can only be described with this picture:

For those of you not able to catch our boys on tour this time around take solace in this awesome awesome recording for their stop in Colorado at the world renowned Red Rocks Amphitheater. Check out "Cobra" below.

01. Anytime

02. Off The Record

03. Gideon

04. Evil Urges

05. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 1

06. The Way That He Sings

07. What A Wonderful Man

08. I'm Amazed

09. Thank You Too

10. Sec Walkin'

11. Golden

12. Two Halves

13. War Begun

14. Lay Low

15. Aluminum Park

16. Mahgeetah

17. Phone Went West

18. Bermuda Highway

19. Librarian

20. Dondante

21. Smokin' From Shootin' >

22. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2 *

Encore

23. Crowd

24. Wordless Chorus

25. Highly Suspicious

26. Cobra

27. Steam Engine

28. Run Thru

29. Dancefloors

30. One Big Holiday

Download - My Morning Jacket - Live at Red Rocks - 2008-08-21

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - 1980-03-06 - Hammersmith Odeon - London

Having drinks outside listening to some Petty just sounds right this evening. Enjoy your nights ladies and gentleman.

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For those of you going to My Morning Jacket at the Greek tonight, have f*cking fun!!!


 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Century City

01 Intro

02 Shadow of a Doubt - A Complex Kid

03 Anything That's Rock and Roll

04 Fooled Again - I Don't Like It

05 Here Come My Girl

06 Even the Losers

07 The Wild One Forever

08 I Need to Know

09 Don't Do Me Like That

10 Cry to Me

11 Stories We Could Tell

12 Refugee

13 Listen to Her Heart

14 American Girl

15 Breakdown

16 Too Much Ain't Enough

17 Shout

18 Girls Were Made to Love

19 Strangered in the Night

20 Don't Bring Me Down

21 Something Else

22 Century City

Download - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - 1980-03-06 - Hammersmith Odeon - London

My Morning Jacket - San Diego, CA - 2010-08-11 Setlist and Pictures

Nice looking setlist!!!! Cannot wait to hear the new song. Coltrane from the MMJ forum described it like this, thanks Coltrane!:

The new song (?) was awesome. Jim on acoustic starting by himself (with a sprinkle of Bo). Sounded laid back and rolling right along.....and then Carl, Patrick and Tommy burst in and exploded the whole thing!!! Carl thrashed for a bit, then it settled into another few verses.....man, i can't describe it! It felt like a five or six minute song. the lyrics were very interesting too. If it truly was a new song (for a new record), it's a pretty cool direction.

Check out some cool shots from last night here.

Check out a bit of "Dondante" after the setlist.

Pearl Jam - 1993-11-05 - Indio, CA

The famous "shoe show." It sounds like it was pretty friggin' rough, here is some info from Five Horizons.com:

This show, originally planned for the LA area, was problematic with respect to parking and cold temperatures. The unruly crowd was moshing in line during the soundcheck and to PA music! Before PJ started, a roadie sang a hysterical rendition of 'Copa Cabana.' The audience is launching shoes at the stage even before and during the opening acts. In fact, during Eleven's set, a shoe hits Jack Iron's bass drum, he stops the song and says that if he finds out who threw it he would make him pay for the damages (quite pissed). Finally, PJ hits the stage, with the audience behaving outrageously. Prior to 'Deep,' Ed remarks, "Kill your local r*pist, but torture him first, then serve him to your enemy for dinner." Later: "The first guy I met today gave me this book and asked if I wanted to know the secret for living forever." Tossing it into the crowd, he says, "Why the f*ck would I want to live forever?" (TSE edit - At the end of "Alive") During 'Porch,' Ed invites the audience to spit at him. The agitated crowd, continuing to throw stuff onto the stage, leads Ed to comment that "... me and Jeff are going to the front gate and when you exit, we are going to beat the sh*t out of every barefoot person here"  and "... throw a gun so I can shoot you." The band eventually plays from behind their amps so they won't be hit by the flying shoes. This audience was awful. The recording of 'Blood' from this show is released on the 'Daughter' single. 'F*ck Me in the Brain' was released later on the third fan club single (as 'Ramblings'). The guys deserve a medal for playing this long and this well despite the rowdy crowd.

Check out "Glorified G" and the "Shoe Rant" right here:

 

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01 Release

02 Go

03 Animal

04 Why Go

05 Dissident

06 Jeremy

07 Glorified G

08 Daughter

09 Alive

10 Rearviewmirror

11 Improv

12 Blood

13 Rats

14 Once

15 Porch

16 F*ck Me In The Brain

17 Shoe The Shoeless

18 Encore Break

19 Sonic Reducer

20 Even Flow

21 White Flag

22 Indifference

23 Baba O' Riley

Download - Pearl Jam - 1993-11-05 - Indio, CA