Jun
02

Short Circuital: My Morning Jacket’s Smooth Homecoming

Aaron Frank reps Louisville like DeJuan Wheat. It’s easy to look at the artwork and promotion leading up to Circuital and guess that My Morning Jacket’s sixth album is heavily conceptual.  It’s not — even though the Louisville quintet’s last two albums attempted something similar. Instead, Circuital comes off like it’s trying to articulate a… Continue reading »

Apr
12

You Can Always Edit Out Talk

My Morning Jacket |Storytellers |Free Music Videos |New Artists Jim James talking grandmothers, vans, flashes of light, and setlist staple, “Golden.” It’s been three years since Evil Urges and My Morning Jacket is long overdue for new material that doesn’t sound like “Highly Suspicious.” Hence next month’s Circuital, with its eponymous lead single that can… Continue reading »

Aug
15

My Morning Jacket-”Circuital”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ll128_-yzY Three different people texted me from the Greek Theatre last Thursday night to tell me that Jim James was “melting faces.” One of them was Frank N’ Beats baron, Aaron Frank, so I suspect that it was the truth, or at least something closely resembling it. Clearly, I blew it by staying home and… Continue reading »