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mel.opho.be (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
During an interview with BBC6 Music, Jim James discussed what the future looks like for My Morning Jacket and Monsters of Folk . Spoiler Alert: MMJ is slowly working on a few tracks but minus any real pressure and MoF will probably do another album someday. You can read the interview blurbs below: On My Morning Jacket: “We toured so much over the last couple of years and really have run...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Monsters of Folk are a modern super group of sorts, its principles all highly-visible figures of alternative rock. Jim James (nee Yim Yames) is the titular leader of Southern eclectics My Morning Jacket. M Ward is the contemporary archetype of singer/songwriter, who in addition to performing appropriately solo, also does regular tours as part of a duo dubbed She and Him (with actress Zooey Deschanel)....
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PopWreckoning (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Fall in Philly is a beautiful thing—especially when the soundtrack to the season is one that includes M. Ward, Mike Mogis, Jim James, Conor Oberst AND Bob Dylan. The city has seen itself nearly taken over by both contemporary and classic folk musicians this November—first with Dylan’s performance at the Liacouras Center and then Monsters [...]
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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Filed under: News , Video , Television As Spinner previously reported , My Morning Jacket made its animated television debut on FOX's ' American Dad .' Airing on Sunday night, the indie folk-rock band did more than just a three-second cameo. The show featured 'American Dad' Stan Smith fighting his daughter's admiration for the band. However, after hearing frontman Jim James ' falsetto, Stan...
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MTV Newsroom (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... argues against but then falls completely in love with their jammy style and the pipes of frontman Jim James. In a particularly amazing sequence, Stan tries to explain what he sees when he hears the band's "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 2" (from last year's smash album Evil Urges , where most of last night's music came from). It involves a vision quest that contains a bunch of owls, a...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Not that the rather flippant name of this ensemble, made up of Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, M Ward and the (unbilled) drummer Will Johnson is a misnomer. It's another chance for the non-purists among us to redefine what folk can be nowadays, to the chagrin of those who never forgave Dylan for going electric. For although the guitarists are wont to...
