Austinist Preview and Giveaway: My Morning Jacket @ Stubb's

Where in the hell did My Morning Jacket come from? If you answered "Louisville, Kentucky", you're only half right. Few people know this, but MMJ was actually birthed collectively from a anthropomorphic bear-god, assuming human form so as not to scare off prospective audiences. They learned to play music on instruments they found while foraging at an abandoned mining camp. No, seriously. The reverb that coats their hauntingly translucent albums like so much honey (bears love honey) is a product of the demands that their bear-like hearing requires, having different aural canals than us human-borns. We, like so many others, curl up with MMJ in the evening hours to fall asleep (a la teddy bears). Earlier in their career, MMJ was one of the most unabashedly hirsute band in all of Christendom, because it got to be too damned time consuming to try and hide or shave all that hair/fur.

For demi-god bears they sure make some great music, though. Who could forget It Still Moves? It was like discovering The Band, playing their hearts out at the bottom of a well, and not calling for help because it sounded too cool. Last year's Z was an unqualified sonic success, too. Critics and fans alike couldn't help but slather praise on Jim James and the boys like MMJ slathers the aforementioned reverb on everything. But it works, and MMJ has proved themselves a bear-god-like force in the musical community, complete with their own mythologies (see Bonnaroo and above) and epic catalogue. Sigh. It would be awesome if they came to Austin. What's that? They are? OMFG!

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My Morning Jacket
w/Wax Fang
Saturday, November 18th
Stubb's BBQ, Outside Stage [map]
Doors @ 7pm [Tickets]