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 [...]

Oh his new album Wrote A Song For Everyone, the former Creedence Clearwater Revival yowler John Fogerty has recruited a whole mess of famous people to help him revive a bunch of his old band’s songs. The album’s roster of guests is a pretty schizophrenic one; it’s got My Morning Jacket, Dawes, Jennifer Hudson, Kid [...

In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2008, My Morning Jacket frontman and songwriter Jim James identified four artists he considered to be MMJ’s “big-brother bands”: Wilco, Björk, Radiohead, and Pearl Jam. While that spectrum alone is telling — this was the anything goes era of Evil Urges — that last one is pa...

Wilco, My Morning Jacket and Richard Thompson will also play the 26-date festival    

As a huge Mark Kozelek fan, I can’t help but wonder how one goes about assembling a John Denver tribute album in 2013 and doesn’t find space for a Kozelek rendition; is it because he put out his own Denver tribute back in 2000 (featuring Low, Bonnie Prince Billy, and THREE Red House Painters tracks)? [...]