My Morning Jacket!!!! Circuital!!!!!

[sbessiso]

MOTHERFUCKING YEAH.

Kentucky classic-rock explorers My Morning Jacket are festival mainstays with a rich and busy side-project schedule, but they haven't released a new album since 2008's Evil Urges. This spring, they'll finally return in full force when they release the new album Circuital, as Rolling Stone reports. Talking to the band, RS learned a few key details about the album-- like the fact that it includes a song with the awesome title "Holdin' On to Black Metal". And that the genesis of the album belongs to Muppets.

According to Rolling Stone, the band recorded the LP in their hometown of Louisville, setting up a studio in a church gymnasium. Frontman Jim James calls the album "the most live record we've ever done." James also says, "We want people to have almost the exact opposite experience they had last time. I definitely had some goals of wanting to make this one warmer and somehow more contained and more concise of a statement."

James wrote a couple of tracks, "Wonderful" and "Out of My System", for an amazing Muppets collaboration that never came to pass. Rolling Stone writes, "An exec recruited My Morning Jacket to record music for a new version of the Electric Mayhem band (the one with Animal on drums), promising a Gorillaz-style tour where MMJ would play behind a curtain while Muppet holograms bashed away onstage. The psyched band began writing and demo'ing, but the exec got fired and the project disappeared." Damn. James also had songs rejected by Jason Segal's upcoming Muppet movie.

The band has a few live shows coming up-- mostly festival gigs-- and we've got those listed out below. They're also set to appear on an episode of "VH1 Storytellers" this summer. Also below, check out footage of the band playing their classic "Wordless Chorus" live on the "Late Show With David Letterman" last year.

My Morning Jacket:

04-17 Lexington, KY - Memorial Coliseum (University of Kentucky)
05-20-22 Gulf Shores, AL - Hangout Festival
06-02-05 Ozark, AR - Wakarusa Festival
06-02-05 Hunter, NY - Mountain Jam
06-09-12 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival
06-30 - 07-03 Quincy, CA - High Sierra Music Festival

[stinkbutt]

I hope that song is actually about Black Metal

[sbessiso]

seriously? is no one else excited??

[getbetter]

I'm trying to justify spending the money to see them at the High Sierra Music festival to hear song from the new album.

[ficklecycle]

Wrong section.

[suprefan]

[sbessiso]

Wrong section.

what?

ohhh whoopsie. can someone fix that for me pleeease?

[TallGuyCM]

06-09-12 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival

So they're already booked for Bonnaroo next year?

[sbessiso]

MY MORNING JACKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

i cannot wait for the new album. I better catch them a few times this year. Also the title is weird

[PotVsKtl]

Kill yourself.

[sbessiso]

Dumb.

[PotVsKtl]

Yes, that's one of the issues.

[sbessiso]

Dude, its MMJ. Love them or leave.

[TheScenestar]

Misc Lounge?

[amyzzz]

This is in the wrong section, dude.

[sbessiso]

wow you guys are obnoxious. I PMed Tessa kindly asking her to fix this simple mistake for me. jesus.

[GolfWang]

sweeeeet

[obzen]

Yo fuck this shit, homie.

[tessalasset]

It's alright Salah. You done right.

[sbessiso]

[softbulletin]

[dine with a cannibal]

I'm so hyped for new MMJ, they kill it live, can't wait to catch them again some time soon.

and seriously you people who were whining about the wrong section need to get a life.

[TallGuyCM]

Frontman Jim James calls the album "the most live record we've ever done."

This pleases me greatly.

[Llama of Time]

Awesome, I'm excited.

I really want to see them live. Well, I saw the end of one of their sets at a fest, like the last 3-4 songs, but just those were great and made me really want to see a full set (I really regret not catching the beginning of it). Wish I could see them at Roo or Wakarusa and get a super long set.

[seyrnon]

so
so
psyched

[sbessiso]

[sbessiso]

TOUR DATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MMJ has new dates to promote the new album!

6/17 Chicago, IL Auditorium Theatre
6/22 Los Angeles, CA Pantages Theatre
6/24 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
6/26 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
6/28 Portland, OR Edgefield
6/29 Vancouver, BC Orpheum
7/11 Toronto, ON Kool Haus
7/12 Montreal, QC Metropolis
8/4 Denver, CO Red Rocks

[Bumblebee]

First ever marathon length show they've ever played in Western Canada.

In the past 6 years the only show was a 45 minute slot at Pemberton 2008.

[Aurgasm]

TOUR DATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See you at the red rocks.

[sbessiso]

you know I just noticed that, its not till August so totally possible. Been dying to check out Denver