Subject: My Morning Jacket

• Good shows coming up!

  Happy new year! If 2007 goes right, you'll be able to count on this wee blog to keep you informed on all things . . . well, all things that we think you should like, I guess. That means: show reviews, band recommendations, random stuff from Ziegler and more contributions from (hopefully) more contributors. Got a band you'd like us to check out? Let us know. Or let me know. I'm here to help! In the meantime, here's some upcoming shows you might like to see, if you don't already know about them:

  January 3, 2007

• My Morning Jacket at HOB Anaheim, 01/05/07

  I haven't been excited by any music in a long, long time. Wait, wait. Was that pretentious enough for you? No? Well, how about this: I haven't been excited by any new music in a long, long time. But Friday night's My Morning Jacket show at the House of Blues, Anaheim was the first concert in awhile that I was actually anticipating. Hell, I was even standing on the floor and—lucky me—next to two thirty-something bros, double-fisting Rockstars and Budweisers, with Peter Pan compl

  January 9, 2007

• Coachella lineup to be announced today

  That's the word coming from a story in today's LA Times. Confirmed: My Morning Jacket, Rilo Kiley (who've never been as good as they were the night I saw them years ago at Chain Reaction--so long ago, the Weekly archives don't go back that far!), Jack Johnson, the Raconteurs, the Verve (of "Bittersweet Symphony" fame? Really? Who took their one hit and laughably thought they could sell out the then-Arrowhead Pond with it back in 1998? I know, I was there.) But it's weird. The lineup will be an

  January 21, 2008

• Coachella lineup announced

  Via Coachella.com: FRIDAY, APRIL 25: Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Col

  January 22, 2008

• Current TV's Fix: The Future (or Present) of Music Journalism?

  Fix Extended Play is a new online video music magazine hosted by Douglas Caballero for a company called Current. The premiere episode (view all 21 minutes of it here) includes feature-y segments on Portland punks the Thermals, M.I.A.-ish electro diva Santogold, UK electronic-pop chameleons Hot Chip (surprisingly hyping experimental-noise unit Gang Gang Dance) and shamrock punks Dropkick Murphys. Next week's ish goes live Tuesday March 11 at 7 p.m. PT, and features Moby, Spoon, Diplo, Radical

  March 6, 2008

• Top 10 Americana Albums of 2008

  Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic Furr smells more like the Kinks than Neil Young. [Editor's note: That's why we put it on our indie-rock list.] We likewise discarded Shearwater's near-masterpiece Rook, despite the fact that the alb

  December 19, 2008

• The Whigs Remind Us That Great Bands Still Come From Athens, Georgia

  September 11, 2008

• Everest See the Mountaintop

  February 19, 2009

• [CD Review] Various artists, 'Dark Was the Night' (4AD)

  February 19, 2009

• Richard Swift

  March 12, 2009

• [Trendzilla] Summer-Music-Festival Hippiewear

  June 26, 2008

• Hotter Than the Temperature at Coachella? Black Lips, Animal Collective, Duffy and 43 More

  April 17, 2008

• Sunday - 11/25

  The SWEA Christmas Fair at the Costa Mesa Neighborhood Community Center, Band of Horses at the Glass House, Greyhound Adoption Show & Tell at Petco

  November 22, 2007

• CD Review

  Band of Horses, Cease to Begin (Sub Pop)

  October 11, 2007

• Trendzilla

  Ironic facial hair

  June 21, 2007

• Secretly Good

  Giving a fuck about Richard Swift
  

  April 5, 2007

• Oh, the Humanity of a Heist

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in character-driven, theft-thriller The Lookout

  March 29, 2007

• Believing

  My Morning Jacket

  January 4, 2007

• Kkkcuf Amerikkka

  Jan. 4-Jan. 11

  January 4, 2007

• Mediocre? You Can't Be Serious

  In defense of Coachella

  May 4, 2006

• Album Review

  Band of Horses, Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)

  April 6, 2006

• This Week in Name Changes

  January 5, 2006

• The Inmates are Running the Asylum

  November 25, 2004

• Get Yourself Arrested

  February 5, 2004

• Never Heard of Him? Perfect!

  July 25, 2002

• What You Missed: Shipwreck at the Queen Mary, Reagan Youth, Monsters of Folk

  Doug Neill​Is it really over? We stopped by a few places this weekend. Things got a little messy, as you can see up there. First, photog Doug Neill had a double-header on Saturday night and stopped by both the Shipwreck event at the Queen Mary and Reagan Youth at Alex's Bar in Long Beach... you can make your own crude jokes about zombies and old farts, if you'd like. Every year, the Queen Mary makes way for all sorts of spooky mazes filled with high school students in rubber masks. Check out t

  October 19, 2009