IFC Outside Lands interview

On the 14th of August 2010 My Morning Jacket performed at The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. On the 3rd of September 2010 IFC published an interview with the band, made during the festival.

IFC Outside Lands interview

Jim James: We've always just had a nice romantic relationship with San Fransisco, every time we come here it feels pretty special. You come into the city and it's San Fransisco, it's speaks loudly on its own, you don't even have to really do much to feel the magic. It's just lit up in a very special way.

All: We're My Morning Jacket and this is Outside Lands

Jim James: I'll kinda get an idea that'll pop out and I'll mess with a little bit, send it to the guys we'll get together and mess with it and sometimes that initial messing with will be the actual version you hear and other times it'll go through many different phases, evaluations and re-shufflings and re-contextualizings and
Patrick Hallahan: Discombobulating
Jim James: Discombobulating

Jim James: It's just all about the spirits that are there at that time, I mean you could play a festival that feels absolutely weird, you know, and there might be ten thousand people out there or you can play a tiny room that feels weird and there's only three people in it our or you can play for three people and it's the greatest show you've ever had.
Carl Broemel: It's weird if you expect it to be great, it probably won't be and if you don't expect it to be great, it could be like the greatest, you might catch an awesome show in a really random place.
Jim James: Just really depends on what the universe has in store for you.

Pancake Mountain (2010)

On August 19th 2010 Pancake Mountain uploaded a video documenting My Morning Jacket's trip to Pancake Mountain to participate in the Speed Quiz.

The Changing of Music and the Influence of Bands In Communities, Causecast (2010)

On August 17 2010 Causecast uploaded a video interview with My Morning Jacket. In the interview the band talks to Causecast about being mislabeled when they started, donating $1 from every ticket of every show to a local charity, working with Air Traffic Control to learn about the good local charities, and how New Orleans is the creative music center of the universe.

Big Day Out Festival, Gold Coast, Australia (2009)

Tom Blankenship, Carl Broemel, Bo Koster and Jim James on Big Day Out, photo by kathleenjoyful

The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994. As of 2003, it has featured seven or eight stages (depending on the venue) accommodating popular contemporary rock music, electronic music, mainstream international acts and local acts.

My Morning Jacket performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast and Auckland.

On January 18, My Morning Jacket performed at Gold Coast, Australia. Setlist included Mahgeeta, Evil Urges, Off The Record, Gideon, Golden, I'm Amazed, Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt.2, Wordless Chorus, Highly Suspicious, Anytime and One Big Holiday.

On January 22, My Morning Jacket performed at The Metro in Sydney, Australia. Setlist included It Beats 4 U, Evil Urges, Off The Record, I'm Amazed, The Way That He Sings, Lowdown, Librarian, Highly Suspicious, Mahgeetah, Anytime and One Big Holiday. A taping of the show can be found and downloaded at The Steam Engine.

Short interview and video of Highly Suspicious performed at The Metro in Sydney, Australia

David Letterman (2006)

On June 8th 2006 My Morning Jacket performed Gideon with members of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, conducted by Keith Lockhart, with whom they played two shows at Boston Symphony Hall later that month.