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Jim James played Webster Hall with Cold Specks (pics)

- Source: Brooklyn Vegan

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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El Cantador – “Pilgrims”

- Source: Obscure Sound

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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Watch My Morning Jacket's Jim James Perform "State of the Art" at Sleep No More

- Source: Pitchfork Media

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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A New Life: Jim James

- Source: ClashMusic.com

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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Tibet House US 23rd Annual Benefit in pics (Jim James, Merrill Garbus, Ariel Pink, Patti Smith, Philip Glass, & Rahzel)

- Source: Brooklyn Vegan

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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Jim James Energizes His Songs of Praise in New York

- Source: Rolling Stone

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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Jim James Opens Doors in 'A New Life'

- Source: Rolling Stone

"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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