Stereogum — Tomorrow we’re gonna recognize the 239th anniversary of America’s independence and the 10th anniversary of Sufjan Stevens’ epic independent LP Illinois. In honor of the day, Hrishikesh Hirway of the great music podcast Song Exploder asked me an... more info

Stereogum — Last month, director and band photographer Danny Clinch launched a Kickstarter to raise funds for a documentary about Blind Melon’s late frontman Shannon Hoon, which will be made up of home-video footage that Hoon shot during the band’s rise to f... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Author Joshua Ferris is writing a series of articles at Popular Mechanics about learning to fly. Rolling Stone interviewed Jim James about the new My Morning Jacket album The Waterfall. This Podcast Will Change Your Life interviewed author Jim Ruland... more info

Stereogum — My Morning Jacket will release their seventh full-length record, The Waterfall, next month, and we’ve already heard the first single “Big Decisions.” Today, the band presented another song from the album on NPR’s All Songs Considered. When Th... more info

Stereogum — My Morning Jacket did a Reddit AMA a few hours ago, and Jim James further confirmed that he’s one of the most empathetic, thoughtful people in the industry right now. Someone asked him how he felt about the new My Morning Jacket album The Waterfall... more info

Stereogum — The all-star Bob Dylan tribute band known as the New Basement Tapes released Lost On The River, their album of refurbished Dylan songwriting scraps, earlier this month. Tonight at 9 p.m. EST Showtime will air Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued,... more info

Stereogum — The New Basement Tapes — which features Elvis Costello, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford, among others — is a supergroup that exists entirely to finish up unfinished songs from Bob Dylan and the Band’s Basem... more info

Stereogum — The New Basement Tapes — aka the supergroup made up of Elvis Costello, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Marcus Mumford, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, and Carolina Chocolate Drop’s Rhiannon Giddens — made their first late-night TV appearance on Fal... more info

Stereogum — My Morning Jacket recorded a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” as a part of North Face’s “Your Land” campaign. The folk classic — which MMJ frontman Jim James calls “the most eternal song when it comes to America” �... more info

Stereogum — A few months back, producer T Bone Burnett announced that he had recruited Elvis Costello, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, and Mumford And Sons’ Marcus Mumford to record unfinished songs from Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes sessions. The band ca... more info