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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

411 Mania — ...but when will it be out? more info

Stereogum — The Roots’ forthcoming How I Got Over will feature John Legend and Jim James, as well as a sample of The Milk-Eyed Mender’s “Book OF Right-On.” Newsom didn’t re-record it — she appears in sampled form. For his part, Jim James re-made Mons... more info