Fans of folk-rock outfits My Morning Jacket and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats are in for a dream show this fall. The two legendary acts are doing the co-headlining Eye To Eye Tour beginning on September 10 in Wilmington, North Carolina at Live Oak Bank Pavilion and concluding on September 28 in Raleigh, North Carolina at the Coastal Credit Union Music Park. Artist presale tickets go live on Tuesday, March 26 at 10 AM local time. You can register for presale right here. General tickets will go live on Friday, March 29 at 10 AM local time and can… Read more »
My Morning Jacket are giving their fans what they want and have decided to tour 32 upcoming dates for their self titled album. The people should be glad to know that they will be all over the place, so plenty of people will be able to snag tickets close to home. They’ll start off in Mobile, Alabama on May 14th and go all the way until August 26th at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. Inbewteen those dates, they can be seen in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Europe, and all over the states. Some of these dates are due to… Read more »
It’s 4 a.m. on the last night of the South by Southwest music conference, and Jim James is belting out Rod Stewart’s “You’re in My Heart.” A few hours earlier, the My Morning Jacket frontman dazzled an intimate crowd at an Austin church with a mostly solo acoustic set, and the full band’s three other performances during the week were some of the most acclaimed of the industry event. But of all the places James could be right now, it’s a cozy terrace suite at Austin’s famed Driskill Hotel, surrounded by a few close friends, a bucket of Miller Lites… Read more »
My Morning Jacket will follow up its performance at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee, with a headlining run, beginning June 20 at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The route includes theaters, large clubs and amphitheaters, and almost all dates will be “an evening with” format, featuring extended sets from the band. The tour is in support of the band’s June 10 ATO release, “Evil Urges.” MMJ frontman Jim James said the band will work plenty of the new material into these shows. “That’s the problem we always have sitting around trying to make a set list,” he… Read more »
Lead guitarist Johnny Quaid and keyboardist Danny Cash have quit My Morning Jacket after four years in the band. Both departures were amicable and both Quaid and Cash cited a desire to step back from the rigorous work schedule that the Louisville, Kentucky, troupe took on in support of its third album and major-label debut, 2003’s It Still Moves. Quaid and Cash were on board for MMJ’s debut, 1999’s Tennessee Fire, and its other independent release, 2001’s At Dawn. With buzz from press and other musicians over their high-energy live shows and unique brand of reverb-drenched rock & roll, the… Read more »
He had one of the biggest opening sales weeks of 2008, and now, Lil Wayne is the year’s most-nominated Grammy contender. Wayne and his latest LP, “Tha Carter III,” lead the pack with a total of eight nominations, while one of the year’s other biggest sellers, Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends,” garnered seven nods. Jay-Z, Ne-Yo and Kanye West each earned six nods, while Alison Krauss, John Mayer, Robert Plant, Radiohead and Jazmine Sullivan received five each. Adele is up for four – including Best New Artist – as are Lupe Fiasco and T.I. The… Read more »
— Today we talk about Paramore’s next single, upcoming music festivals, and Miley’s promo for “Flowers”. — It’s Like That with Paramore We’re starting to feel like we owe Paramore a limb after how much life they’ve been giving us. The band kept things simple by posting that they’re dropping their next single “C’est Comme Ca” on the 12th. (In case you were wondering, ‘c’est comme ça’ means “it’s like that” in French.) We’re just two days away from a new single and a month away from the entire album. If you want more good news, it was also announced… Read more »
