Rollo & Grady — MP3: My Morning Jacket – Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield) [via] Bookmark It Hide Sites 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

Pitchfork — Jam-friendly festival mainstays My Morning Jacket just wrapped a spring tour, during which they played some new tunes. You Ain't No Picasso has high-quality boots of the lite-soul rambler "Friends Again" and starry-eyed ballad "Carried Away", which i... more info

All About Jazz — NPR Music's A Blog Supreme is in New Orleans for the Jazz and Heritage Festival. WBGO's Josh Jackson will be there too: together, they are photographing, interviewing, seafood-eating and blogging their way through the first weekend of festivities. ... more info

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All About Jazz — Indulging one niche may be the modern festival formula, but it doesn't apply to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which expects huge crowds this year with a bill that accommodates Simon and Garfunkel, Drake, My Morning Jacket, Ledisi, Teren... more info

Stereogum — We mentioned Jim James’s appearance on the Preservation Hall’s Benefit LP a couple months back. The house jazz band started a short tour with My Morning Jacket yesterday that will continue to May 2. As you can see in the gallery, the two bands di... more info

Undercover, Australia — A John Prine tribute album featuring My Morning Jacket and Bon Iver is on the way. more info

Pitchfork — Veteran singer-songwriter John Prine gets the tribute-album treatment with Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, out June 22 on Prine's own Oh Boy imprint. It features My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Bon Iver... more info

Silent Uproar — MG&V is a new group featuring John McCauley of Deer Tick, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit. The trio premiered recently at SXSW and will issue their debut album, History From Below, on June 8th via Rounder. The record was pr... more info