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The first considerations when attending a music festival on the beach are sartorial.
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The first considerations when attending a music festival on the beach are sartorial.
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"This is the best American crowd we've seen in a long, long time."
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Currently mid-way through touring his recent solo record Regions of Light and Sound of God , Jim James has revealed that he will return to the studio with band My Morning Jacket after the summer.
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Jim James is currently touring the country in support of his debut solo album Regions of Light and Sound of God , but in October he'll reconvene with the rest of My Morning Jacket to begin work on a new studio album.
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Jim James is currently on the road with his solo band playing cuts from his recent LP Regions of Light and Sound of God , but he's already thinking about My Morning Jacket 's next album.
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ENS West Coast contributor Dave Tobias hit another great show recently and is generous enough to share his experience.
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Merrill Garbus and Jim James have teamed to release this remix of "A New Life" as a promotion for the Global Citizen Ticket Initiative.
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Last week, Jim James and My Morning Jacket lent a hand in launching the world hunger and social awareness program, Global Citizen Tickets Initiative, which allows fans to enter into lotteries for two donated tickets at participating artists' shows for the next three years.
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Sir Jim James, you and your creations are the Regions of Light and Sound of God to my senses.
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The downside to having one of the year's best lineups ?
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It's a strange juxtaposition going from witnessing a caped James fronting My Morning Jacket at a packed Madison Square Garden, which holds roughly 20,000 during concerts, to seeing his dancing, up-close in a Blues Brothers-themed suit, 20 blocks south at Webster Hall, which fills with a little more than 1,400 at the main stage.
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The Red Bull Music Academy NYC residency continues tonight and runs through May 31 with tons of cool events.
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Tickets to the Governors Ball after-party with Japandroids at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.
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As ominous blue lights darted through the expanses of Louisville's ornate Brown Theatre, Jim James and his four-piece band strode onstage to a murky synth drone.
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Winnipeg hardcore band Comeback Kid are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their debut full length, Turn It Around , on a tour this year where they'll be playing songs from that album and its followup, Wake the Dead.
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My next Fuel/Friends house concert is one week from today!
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As mentioned , Newport Folk Festival is returning this year to Fort Adams State Park from July 26 to 28 , and since we last spoke, the lineup has been revealed.
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"I think we're going to look back on the Internet in 50 to 100 years as a big mistake," said My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James at a SXSW Music Q&A with MTV Networks' Bill Flanagan.
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Alabama-based alternative trio El Cantador recorded their new album, Translation Wave , at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center of Arts and Education in Ocean Springs, MS, where the band took full advantage of their studio and theater rooms during a six-day residency.
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Today, Pitchfork.tv presents a special performance from My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James at the McKittrick Hotel in Manhattan, home of the interactive theater piece Sleep No More. He performed "State of the Art" from his new solo album Regions of Light and Sound of God , and discussed the complicated role technology plays in our lives as well as his connection to Sleep No More.
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Glaswegian indie-poppers, Camera Obscura will release a new album this year.
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Given his status as one of those people who seems to have been everywhere and done everything, Ahmir " ?uestlove " Thompson is the perfect person to write a memoir.
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The Roots ' Black Thought has revealed he's working on a "blues" solo record, with a little help from some famous friends.
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In well over a decade, My Morning Jacket have established one of the more interesting and rewarding career trajectories in rock, with experimentation and humour never far from their palette.
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Last night's 23rd annual Tibet House Benefit concert at Carnegie Hall -- curated by Philip Glass and featuring tUne-yArDs, Ariel Pink, Jim James, Ira Glass, and Patti Smith among others-- was one of the least least self-important benefit concerts I've ever seen.
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The 23rd Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert went down at Carnegie Hall last night (2/21) with Jim James, Merrill Garbus (aka tUnE-yArDs), Ariel Pink, Patti Smith, Rahzel, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Smith, and artistic director Philip Glass , with backing from Scorchio Quartet , dancing from This American Life 's Ira Glass , and an opening Monk chant.
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Six monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery opened Thursday's event with a chant blessing, a meditative introduction to a prolific, if jarring, handful of musicians Tibet House co-founder Philip Glass recruited from a list of 80.
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From the front door of New York's McKittrick Hotel to the intimate theater inside where Jim James , singer-guitarist of My Morning Jacket , performed the songs from his new solo album last night, it was a long trip through zigzagging barely-lit hallways, several flights of stairs and a couple of lounges, one with a blues trio holding forth.
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Last night at Brooklyn's Music Hall Of Williamsburg, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James performed the music from his new solo album Regions Of Light And Sound Of God. Questlove and Allison Brie ( Community , Mad Men ) were both in attendance and watched form the side of the stage.
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NYHC vets Judge reuniting to headline Black and Blue Bowl!
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They were hooked: The moment singer-songwriter Jim James and his bandmates from My Morning Jacket first wandered into the immersive, genre-bending show "Sleep No More," there was no turning back.
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Galaxie 500, Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean & Britta, Dean & Britta's Dean Wareham and Luna, Dean & Britta's Britta Phillips.
Read MoreHypnotic, psychedelic, soulful and ragged, My Morning Jacket are one of the most distinctive bands to come out of the American rock underground in the past decade.
Read MoreMy Morning Jacket frontman Jim James has shared the video for "A New Life" off his recent solo debut Regions of Light and Sound of God. The clip begins with James performing the tune on an acoustic guitar in the dark.
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HAIM , who open for Mumford & Sons tonight at Barclays Center, will release their new EP on April 1 and you can stream a track from it, "Falling," below.
Read More"Hey, open the door / I want a new life," goes the refrain to Jim James' "A New Life," a cut from the My Morning Jacket frontman's new solo effort Regions of Light and Sound of God. It's a strong but simple statement, and the new video for the song starts fittingly with James plucking a guitar in an empty room, before he throws on a jacket, grabs his six-string and opens a door.
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Last week, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James released his solo debut Regions Of Light And Sound Of Go d.
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It's pretty hard to image Jim James being able to top the amazing rendition of his Regions of Light and Sound of God track "A New Life" when he appeared as the musical guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
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My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James gets weird in his new video for "A New Life", off his recent solo debut, Regions of Light and Sound of God.
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Jim James delivered one of my favorite live late-night performances earlier this week on Fallon (who hosts Night Beds tonight).
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