My Morning Jacket gets Evil, sells out Radio City

You've probably heard the tale of Robert Johnson's alleged deal with Satan wherein the legendary bluesman exchanged his soul for the ability to "play that guitar like nobody ever played it before" as well as "all the whiskey and women" he could handle. Now, we don't encourage rumor mongering here at Paste News HQ, but we are stone-cold positive that My Morning Jacket has been trafficking in some similarly shady business dealings.

As previously reported, MMJ will perform at Radio City Music Hall on June 20. Tickets went on sale last Friday (Jan. 18) and sold out in an astounding 22 minutes. Don't get it twisted. We love those Louisvillians as much as the next publication, but the seating capacity of Radio City pushes 6,000. This means that tickets were going at a rate of about 272 per minute. That's just silly. And by "silly," we mean "indicative of a deal with the devil himself."

We know what you're thinking. "Geez, Paste, that's a wonderfully half-baked argument you got there." Well, hold up a second, naysayer! It was announced today that My Morning Jacket's (also previously reported) forthcoming album will be titled Evil Urges.

Evil Urges! Case closed.

Related links:
MyMorningJacket.com
Paste Blogs: My Morning Jacket "Quick Hit" video from ACL '07
My Morning Jacket on MySpace

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