Review: Rolling the dice with My Morning Jacket
You never know quite what you are going to get out of performance from My Morning Jacket (also known as MMJ). The southern rockers don’t tote around a consistent set list from show to show, and their catalogue is so expansive that it provides them a massive well from which to pull from. On the band's current tour in support of this year's excellent The Waterfall, fans can help form each night’s set list in what the band is calling the “Spontaneous Curation Series,” which allows audience members the opportunity to suggest song choices prior to the concert through online [...]
Giveaway: My Morning Jacket begin 3 nights of bliss at the Masonic this Thursday
My Morning Jacket love the Bay Area. Their live album Okonokos was a recording they did at our very own Fillmore back in 2005, long before they broke out at what seems to be a career-defining moment of playing a 4 hour set at 2008's Bonnaroo Music Festival. Wherever you may have heard the band (Jim James, Tom Blankenship, Patrick Hallahan, Bo Koster and Carl Broemel), their music has certainly morphed over time into a unique blend of southern harmonies, jam rock sessions and a multitude of genres backed by some serious guitar solos. They have a live show schedule of epic proportion as [...]