March, 2012
Tonight’s a night to listen to My Morning Jacket. What am I talking about? Every night is a night to listen to My Morning Jacket.
I am forever inspired by the passion it takes to drive a public radio station. In the winter of 1999, I experienced what would be the first of many trips to WFPK’s studio. There, in the basement of the old Louisville Public Library, I stood impressed. The studio wasn’t slick, it wasn’t packed with new equipment. But the passion that guided the staff was palpable, and listeners can feel it coming through the airwaves.
—Patrick Hallahan shares “The top 10 reasons I love Louisville, Ky. public radio station WFPK.” Read all ten online at Louisville’s LEO Weekly. (via publicradiomusicmonth)
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“Jim James (from My Morning Jacket) / Rolling Stone magazine, Australia. April 2012.
My portrait of Jim James—my tenth collaboration with Rolling Stone—is finally here. For this occasion I tried to evoke the aesthetics of some forgotten children’s activity book to depict My Morning Jacket’s lead man and the tunes, beats and rhythms that have influenced his work across time.
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My Morning Jacket last night
“Sometimes you go see a band, and you think you know the kind of show you’re in for. A bit of a folksy sing-a-long to the tracks you know, and hopefully a good performance of those you don’t.
MMJ last night blew my fucking mind. From the moment they walked on stage it felt like a big band playing a small venue. The music was LOUD, louder than I’d experience in years. The band were focused (Jim James said exactly 11 words to the audience in the first 2 hours), energetic, and insanely good. Well, Jim James was insanely good, the drummer was good and the keyboardist.
The only reason I left early was because someone was smoking reefer next to me, and I’m not a keen drug user (I don’t handle weed particularly well) so me and my mate jetted out of there. But nothing in their albums had prepared me for the live show they put on. They absolutely rocked hard, the ten minutes of mental jamming they added on to the end of every track was just insane. Jim James is masterful, he keeps the crowd on a knife edge as he slowly ramps up his energy in each song until he explodes and it eminates out from him. The band jump around, the crowd go ballistic, and I go deaf.
Would see them again and again and again. His hauntingly seductive voice (when you actually hear it, you can go 20 or 30 minutes without him singing a lyric) is a haze-inducing forerunner to the southern rock being played behind it. And when the southern rock turns heavy (which it inevitably does), the voice rises with it, turning in to a tone-perfect screech.
Seriously, they exceeded every expectation I had. Love them!”
The Artist Formally Known as Yim Yames
From now on, on all of Olliges/James/Yames’ projects where his hair length reaches between his shoulder and the bottom lobe of his right ear, he will be officially credited as #?^ In a statement, Yames explained that “#?^ feels just right to me—You are where you’re at and I am here. Yim Yames is just so stiff and formal. It lacked whimsy.” The Yim Yames moniker will still be utilized for corporate gigs and when Olliges flies business class. Meanwhile, #?^ plans to tour with members of NIN, GnR and others as part of a new super group the Arena-Size Acronyms.
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“We are very honored that Mr. Patrick Hallahan is playing one of the prototype player date kits tomorrow night (Saturday the 25th // 10 pm eastern) at the Spirit Awards in Los Angeles. Excited for the player date’s national tv debut and to hear the Jacket! click the photo to go to the Spirit Awards web-site.”
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