RISING COLORADO BAND KIND HEARTED STRANGERS SET FOR NORTHEAST DATES
When it came time for Kind Hearted Strangers to record their second album, "Now.here," which will be released on April 7, the road dogs did what they do best: just play. "Basically, every day began...
ReadmoreSTRAND OF OAKS LOOKS BACK ON EVE OF RETURN TO WILKES-BARRE
After his breakthrough album "HEAL" and its 2017 follow-up, "Hard Love," Tim Showalter, who performs as Strand of Oaks, was spent. "I pretty much stopped," Showalter tells Highway 81 Revisited. "An...
ReadmoreMY MORNING JACKET’S CARL BROEMEL IS ALL ‘WISHED OUT’ ON NEW ALBUM
Payday at the Chinese restaurant was always a big day for young dishwasher Carl Broemel. The eatery paid in cash, so Carl would pocket the money, bolt the Indianapolis eatery and skateboard to Karma R...
ReadmoreJIM JAMES STREAMS NEW ALBUM ON NPR; TOUR INCLUDES NYC, PHILLY STOPS
My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James' new solo album, "Eternally Even," is streaming in its entirety via NPR's "First Listen Series." The album will be released Nov. 4, and James will kick off a U.S. ...
ReadmoreMY MORNING JACKET: NEW ALBUM ‘THE WATERFALL’ COMING MAY 4
My Morning Jacket have announced the May 4 release of "Waterfall," the band's first album in four years. According to a press release: "On the new release there are moments that reach back to early...
ReadmoreMUSIC WORLD PAYS TRIBUTE TO LOU REED
Photo of Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson at 2010 Coney Island Mermaid Parade by Jim Gavenus Tributes to Lou Reed, who died Saturday, have been pouring in from rock musicians including David Bowie, Pearl...
ReadmoreMMJ LEADS THE CHARGE AT CBGB FESTIVAL
By Nikki M. Mascali Photos by Kyle Roarty NEW YORK -- When CBGB OMFUG opened in 1973, it was intended to be a home for country, bluegrass, blues and “Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers.” Thou...
ReadmoreBOB DYLAN, WILCO AND MY MORNING JACKET IN CAMDEN
By Michael Lello CAMDEN, N.J. – It’s easy for music fans that missed the 1960s to feel they were shortchanged. Woodstock; the New York folk scene; Monterey Pop; The Allman Brothers, The Band and the...
ReadmoreAN INTERVIEW WITH FLOATING ACTION’S SETH KAUFFMAN
You might not expect My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses and the crowd at The Bog in Scranton to have much in common. But the three groups have at least one shared trait: when Floating Action plays, the...
ReadmoreCONCERT REVIEW: MY MORNING JACKET, BAND OF HORSES IN PHILADELPHIA
IMG_7144a Jim James of My Morning Jacket (File photos by Jason Riedmiller) The Mann Center for the Performing Arts is tucked away in the Cent...
Readmore