A few days ago, we heard a cover of Fela Kuti’s “Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am” by My Morning Jacket featuring Merrill Garbus (of tUnE-yArDs) and Brittany Howard (of the Alabama Shakes). The cover is part of a tribute compilation, Red Hot + Fela, organized by the AIDS awareness group Red Hot. Last night, the [...]

The AIDS awareness group Red Hot has given us many great benefit compilations over the years, including 1993′s epochal No Alternative (“Unseen Power of the Picket Fence” FTW!) and 2009′s equally epochal Dark Was The Night. They also released a Fela Kuti tribute called Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit o...

Last year the people involved with the original CBGBs held a music festival and this year it’s coming back again in less than two weeks. The group has organized a free concert in Times Square on 10/12 featuring My Morning Jacket, Grizzly Bear, Divine Fits, the Wallflowers, a James Murphy DJ set, and more. It’s [...]

Right now, Wilco is on the huge AmericanaramA tour with Bob Dylan and My Morning Jacket, and a few nights ago, the big show came to the Jones Beach Theater on Long Island. For that show, as well as a few others, Beck joined the bill, and he also came to the stage for a [...]

My Morning Jacket are a big deal, a total festival-crossover band, and your dad probably already likes them. But it’s still a bit weird to see a network newsmagazine doing a big piece on them. That happened yesterday, as CBS Sunday Morning dedicated six and a half minutes to MMJ, exposing thousands of political-junkie types [...]