My Morning Jacket

Thanks for tuning in to our broadcast of My Morning Jacket: Live at Radio City Music Hall. By all accounts it was a show for the ages - further proof that this band is the future of rock 'n roll, and the future is NOW.

Our New Year's Eve ticket contest is now closed, but there are still tickets available if you want to see My Morning Jacket live this December 31st at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

 We can't get enough MMJ here at WNEW. If you missed the Live at Radio City broadcast, check out these two tracks from the show:

One Big Holiday

Thank You Too

 

 

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BAND BIO

There’s an old saying that every human cell in the body is changed over a period of seven years, thus every seven years we become a new person. If this is the case My Morning Jacket has defied this idiom by collectively shedding its skin innumerable times since its inception a decade ago in Louisville, Kentucky.

The past several My Morning Jacket albums have each reflected the passion that the band shares for music of all categories while continuing to nurture their signature aesthetic. Stylistically, Evil Urges is the album that My Morning Jacket has been making for almost ten years. Their previous work has emboldened them with the confidence to continue to grow in ways few artists would be capable of achieving. Admirably, Jim James’ songwriting manages to remain as organic and cohesive as ever, making their musical leaps forward fluid, logical, entertaining, and inspiring.

More than ever before, the band treated the studio itself as a musical instrument for the recording of Evil Urges. Thus co-producers Jim James and Joe Chiccarelli (The Shins, White Stripes) truly collaborated on the band’s most ambitious and convincingly executed album to date.

Although their last album, Okonokos, has been hailed as one of the best live albums of the new millennium, My Morning Jacket is a band that holds no desire to merely replicate their past work. As kinetic and transcendent as their legendary shows are, the band is not attempting to achieve concert realism with the recording of the new album. Within opening track, “Evil Urges,” alone, this focused eclecticism is immediately evident. It is clear that My Morning Jacket have officially outgrown their ‘best live band’ label. Now, Jim James (guitar, vox), Two Tone Tommy (bass), Patrick Hallahan (drums), Carl Broemel (guitar) and Bo Koster (keys) are ready to be the best band, period.

Comments

[Brett]

So, when is the MMJ show playing? It's Oct. 2nd, 2:15pm ET... and no MMJ. Technical Difficulties?

[Deb]

Still no show playing or are we not looking in the right place? 2:20 pm

[Phreebird]

I wanna hear some Jacket!! WTF? I didn't create an acct to hear the counting freacking crowes!!! What's the deal?

[dale abbott]

where is the concert for mmj i have clicked on the live button per instructions and nothing. it is 10-02-2008 2:28 pm am i stupid and missing something.

[Kyle]

Why isn't MMJ playing right now?

[Curt]

Thanks for the hype. I wanted some MMJ, NOT Jewel.

[deb]

Hmmm, it’s Oct. 2…it’s well past 2 pm eastern and central time…no one has responded to these postings…guess MMJ isn’t happening today. Disappointing.

[bob anonymous]

you people are incomptent no encore on saturday night why don't you give up and work for lehman brothers

[Mad at you]

You guys totally suck. Nice ploy to get people to listen to your crap station though, plugging the eff out of a show you never intended to play. Thanks for no My Morning Jacket a holes.

[dave]

WTF. Sat night 9:23 pm. Rushed home to hear MMJ. Why am I hearing Elvis Costello et al instead. This blows

[jackie treehorn]

WTF? Why advertise a show that you aren't going to play? Do you really think I'm going to stay and listen to OAR?

[pissedoff]

are you people going to grow a pair and man up and let us why we heard every other rock group but not my morning jacket?

[floyd]

what a joke, thats two different radio stations that couldn't get this right. just archive it online if your never going to air it.

[Kyle]

This better work...

[Kyle]

Okay, I have heard the 100th apology in the last 10 minutes...but when are we going to get this going...

[NickyScarfa]

It's 10:10ET. Still no MMJ. I wonder if they slept in......

[brian]

finally

[floyd]

Wow, all this waiting, all these problems, and all these apologies and you guys don't even play the whole show but skip large chunks of it. What a disaster this has been. WNEW should be ashamed of themselves.

[floyd]

"As far as we’re concerned, part of having a good relationship means we can trust each other – and we know you’ve been burned by radio stations before. We want you to have higher expectations of us – and we want to meet and surpass them."

Well you you just failed miserably WNEW, and you burned us bad like the many times before.

[Norm - wnew.com Program Director]

Dear (?) Floyd - we're sorry to have inflicted our technical problems on you and all the other Jacket fans over these past few weeks -- right thru the first hour or two of our scheduled marathon MMJ broadcast which was intended to atone for our previous sins and hopefully redeem us. This new technology is complicated, and your patience as we come to grips with it is appreciated.
But please don't be critical of us for the content of the show not meeting your expectations. We worked very closely with the band's management to gain permission to stream this performance and they provided us with an edited version of the show recorded and mixed by their sound engineer. When we realized the version of the show they approved was somewhat truncated, we certainly never intended to mislead anyone by stating you'd hear it "in its entirety." The final cut is always up to the individual artist and their management. Sorry for any confusion. Hopefully, we'll have a full-length show from them at some point in the future.