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News Roundup: 5/18/2010

5535 days ago

Allmusic Blog — Jim James will join Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore for the summer-long Appalachian Voices Tour. James previously produced Sollee and Moore’s Dear Companion, a collaborative album whose proceeds helped raise awareness of mountaintop mining’s d... more info

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Jim James, Superchunk, Delphic, Cults & other tickets

5535 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets go on AmEx presale at noon for the Jim James (actually Yim Yames, Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore) show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. My Morning Jacket has upcoming shows too. Tickets are on sale at noon for... more info

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Roots Album Gets Release Date, Cover

5536 days ago

Pitchfork — The eleventh album from the Roots, How I Got Over, is due out June 22 on Def Jam after several delays. Drummer ?uestlove reported the info on his Twitter and also linked to the LP cover, which you can see above. As previously reported, the album feat... more info

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My Morning Jacket's Jim James Announces Benefit Tour

5536 days ago

Pitchfork — Earlier this year, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James (or, as he prefers to be known these days, Yim Yames) produced Dear Companion, a collaborative album from fellow Kentucky singer-songwriters Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore. The album raised ... more info

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Jim James, Daniel Martin Moore & Ben Sollee are going on an Appalachian Voices tour (dates)

5536 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Something, Somewhere, Sometime (MP3) Jim James w/ Monsters of Folk in L.A. 2009 (more by Graeme Flegenheimer) Yim Yames [Jim James], singer-songwriter Daniel Martin Moore and genre-bending cellist and voca... more info

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The Roots and John Legend Prep Arcade Fire-Inspired Covers LP

5541 days ago

Pitchfork — Rolling Stone reports that the Roots and John Legend have teamed up to record an album of covers of 60s and 70s socially conscious soul songs. The project was originally inspired by an attempt at an Arcade Fire cover, but that song didn't end up maki... more info

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Doug Burr

5548 days ago

Some Velvet Blog — Denton, Texas singer-songwriter Doug Burr is bringing new ideas to the "tradition" of the singer-songwriter. Like Tweedy, Ray LaMontagne, Jim James, Conor, Bon Iver, Josh Ritter and The Low Anthem's Ben Knox Miller, Burr may draw on the past yet he c... more info

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My Morning Jacket â€“ â€œFriends Againâ€ (Live)

5550 days ago

Stereogum — My Morning Jacket is in the middle of their tour with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and in addition to bringing out a ton of covers, Jim James and co. are also debuting new MMJ material “Friends Again” is lose and mellow, though that may be a ... more info

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Live Video: Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore

5556 days ago

KEXP Seattle — A common cause brought musicians Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore together with producer Yim Yames (aka Jim James of My Morning Jacket): the effort to put an end to the destructive Mountaintop Removal method of coal mining in central Appalachia. Al... more info

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