Jim James

Yim Yames — Tribute To

My Morning Jacket lead singer Jim James' tribute to late Beatle George Harrison as Yim Yames is a clear success for a few reasons. The first is the absolute earnestness in which he approaches these Harrison songs. James doesn't try to reinvent these classics as so many Beatles cover song manglers do, instead simply stripping down Harrison's...
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Yim Yames' Tribute To

I Read The News Today... For Feb. 7, 2011

Toronto singer/songwriter and former Local Rabbits member Peter Elkas will release a new album entitled Repeat Offender on Feb. 22 through Joel Plaskett's New Scotland Records. He'll be on the road promoting it in March. —peterelkas.com Mike Skinner has officially retired The Streets. We're sad, so we're going to go listen to every Streets album...
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Monsters Of Folk — "The Right Place"

Monsters Of Folk's black-and-white clip for "The Right Place," the first single from their self-titled debut album, places the supergroup's members — My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, M. Ward and producer Mike Mogis — in a studio in a trailer. Monsters Of Folk is out now.
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Monsters Of Folk Tour Starting In Vancouver

Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, M. Ward and producer Mike Mogis — who are collectively known as Monsters Of Folk — have announced a North American and European fall dates in support of their upcoming self-titled debut album. The tour kicks off mid-October and runs until mid-November. Canadian dates in Vancouver and...
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Free Monsters Of Folk MP3 Available On Their Site

Monsters Of Folk — the supergroup of Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, producer Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket singer/guitarist Jim James and M. Ward — are offering a free download of a track that will appear on their upcoming self titled debut album. "Say Please" is the first single from Monsters Of Folk, which comes out Sept. 22 through...
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Jim James' George Harrison Tribute Coming

My Morning Jacket singer/guitarist Jim James will release Tribute To, a six-song EP of George Harrison covers under the moniker Yim Yames, through ATO Records on Aug. 4. James (or Yames?) recorded the tracks on Tribute To after Harrison's death from cancer in 2001. Four of the tracks are from All Things Must Pass, Harrison's 1970 solo album,...
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Gallagher Back; Bennington And James Out

Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher returned to the stage for the first time since he was attacked on stage at Toronto's Virgin Festival a month ago when his band launched their U.K. tour at Liverpool's Echo Arena on Tuesday night. Gallagher suffered three broken ribs in the assault, which forced Oasis to postpone a number of North American shows. To...
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My Morning Jacket

2007 Lollapalooza - Day Two

Photographer: 
Noah Love
Venue: 
Butler Field
City: 
Chicago, IL
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