My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
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- My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
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- Murder Ballads and Southern Grooves: The Raconteurs are Back
My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone – Jun 12, 2008
It’s a beautifully miscegenatedmess: “Thank You Too” conjures the Stylistics “Aluminum Park” conjuresthe Replacements and it’s all good. That shape-shifting is fitting fora band whose leader recently appeared in whiteface in Todd Haynes’surreal Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There which dealt with an icon whosemusic could never be reduced to mere tradition. James seems well awarethat any definition of “classic rock” that doesn’t include PrinceRadiohead and Wilco is pretty bereft. Now with Evil Urges he can addMy Morning Jacket to that list.
Concert stages are red hot this summer
Republican – MassLive.com – The Republican – MassLive.com – Jun 12, 2008
(Joel returns to Mohegan Sun June 28 and July 3 aswell. ) Stevie Wonder also plays the casino resort June 19 whileformer Beatle Ringo Starr does likewise June 22. Actress-turned-pop phenomenon Demi Lovato plays Six Flagsin Agawam on June 26 and then on June 27 Gen-Xers can pullout their ripped jeans to see Pearl Jam rock the New EnglandDodge Music Center in Hartford Soul music greats GladysKnight and Al Green share a bill at the MGM Grand atFoxwoods Resort Casino on June 29. July kicks off with a bang as Coldplay hits the XL Centerin Hartford while classic rockers Chicago and the DoobieBrothers team up for a July 4 concert at Mohegan Sun.
Pop|Rock|Folk|Jazz|Etc.
Washington Post – Jun 12, 2008
Farragut Square Park 17th and K streets NW. GHZ Thursday 6 to 8 Classic rock music. Veterans Park Woodmont and Norfolk avenues Bethesda. FAIRFAX SYMPHONY DIXIELAND BAND Thursday at 7.
Murder Ballads and Southern Grooves: The Raconteurs are Back
Rolling Stone – Jun 12, 2008
“We had about three weeks and I wanted to get asmuch on tape before I had to leave for the White Stripes’ [IckyThump] tour” White says. (The band members — who allfollowed White to Nashville when he moved there three years ago— later reconvened to finish the disc. ) The EnnioMorricone-inspired “Switch and the Spur” and the horn-fueled “ManyShades of Black” add more layers on the Raconteurs’ retro-rock base— although they are still willing to go deep intoclassic-rock territory as with their cover of Terry Reid’s “RichKid Blues. ” “When we finished it we were thinking ‘Wow thisreally plays into people thinking that we’re some kind of Seventiesretro band’ ” White says. “But we threw all that aside — wejust thought that the song was beautiful. Over two nights at Stubb’s the Raconteurs are firing on allcylinders. Keeler has a bit of John Bonham in him throwing hisbody into every hit.
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