Stereogum — The new movie No Escape is sadly not a remake of the 1994 B-movie in which Ray Liotta tries to survive in a dystopian prison colony. Instead, it’s a thriller about Pierce Brosnan trying to help Owen Wilson’s family escape a Southeast Asian coup. ... more info

Stereogum — My Morning Jacket’s Jim James just released a new solo song titled “Take Care Of You,” which is slated to be released on the soundtrack for the upcoming film No Escape. John Erick Dowdle directed the feature, which stars Owen Wilson, Lake Bell,... more info

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