Jim James and Joanna Newsom Featured on New Roots Album

Jim James and Joanna Newsom Featured on New Roots Album

The Roots’ forthcoming album, How I Got Over, has been in the works for quite a while. But with one track featuring My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and another sampling Joanna Newsom’s “The Book of Right On,” it’s probably worth the wait to see what ?uestlove and the rest of The Roots crew have come up with (via Spinner)....  read more

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Hall of Champions: All-Star Musicians Team With Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Hall of Champions: All-Star Musicians Team With Preservation Hall Jazz Band

The new album of surprising collaborations...  read more

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Yim Yames - Louisville, KY - Seelbach Hotel - 2/14/10

Yim Yames - Louisville, KY - Seelbach Hotel - 2/14/10

On Valentine's Night, My Morning Jacket's Jim James put on a suit and his Yim Yames moniker to perform for 300 lucky folks in a Kentucky hotel. Paste was there...  read more

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Preservation Hall w/Tom Waits, Jim James, Buddy Miller & More

Preservation Hall w/Tom Waits, Jim James, Buddy Miller & More

Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, Ani DiFranco, Richie Havens, Andrew Bird, Steve Earle and others sound even better when backed by on the nation's finest jazz ensembles.  read more

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Preservation Hall w/Tom Waits, Jim James, Buddy Miller & More

Preservation Hall w/Tom Waits, Jim James, Buddy Miller & More

Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, Ani DiFranco, Richie Havens, Andrew Bird, Steve Earle and others sound even better when backed by on the nation's finest jazz ensembles.  read more

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My Morning Jacket Frontman Jim James' Record Label Releases First Album

My Morning Jacket Frontman Jim James' Record Label Releases First Album

What do you do when you’re the member of a veteran rock band know for its triumphant live show, been nominated for a Grammy and contributed to a notable, recent supergroup? If you’re Jack White or Jim James, you launch a record label, of course. James’ imprint, Removador Recordings and Solutions, which he founded with cousin and former MMJ guitarist Johnny Quaid, is officially in business....  read more

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Tom Waits, Louis Armstrong, Brandi Carlile, Many More Featured on Preservation Hall Jazz Band Comp

Tom Waits, Louis Armstrong, Brandi Carlile, Many More Featured on Preservation Hall Jazz Band Comp

As Tom Waits first noted last month, he will be one of several notable folks featured on the latest project by New Orleans’ Preservation Jazz Hall Band....  read more

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Monsters of Folk: Monsters of Folk

Monsters of Folk: <em>Monsters of Folk</em>

There’s no way Monsters of Folk could ever...  read more

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Monsters of Folk "The Right Place" Video (Awesome of the Day)

Monsters of Folk "The Right Place" Video (Awesome of the Day)

There's something gimmicky about most super-groups, but Monsters of Folk just seems like a really stacked band. The only gimmick was the rule that only Jim James, Conor Oberst, M. Ward and Mike Mogis would play on the self-titled record, which came out today. They take turns singing and playing drums, bass, piano and guitars, and the whole thing comes across as four of our generation's greatest talents having a really good time creatively. The harmonies are unsurprisingly gorgeous, as James and Oberst show on the band's black-and-white, Airstream-and-yard-gnome-filled video for "The Right Place." You can read our interview with...  read more

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Monsters of Folk "The Right Place" Video (Awesome of the Day)

Monsters of Folk "The Right Place" Video (Awesome of the Day)

There's something gimmicky about most super-groups, but Monsters of Folk just seems like a really stacked band. The only gimmick was the rule that only Jim James, Conor Oberst, M. Ward and Mike Mogis would play on the self-titled record, which came out today. They take turns singing and playing drums, bass, piano and guitars, and the whole thing comes across as four of our generation's greatest talents having a really good time creatively. The harmonies are unsurprisingly gorgeous, as James and Oberst show on the band's black-and-white, Airstream-and-yard-gnome-filled video for "The Right Place." You can read our interview with...  read more

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