My Morning Jacket - Z is 10

Yesterday, My Morning Jacket's Z turned 10. It's the band's fourth album and was an instant critical success. It's one of my all time favourite albums. I love the original yet highly accessible nature of the songs on this album. There's a great mix of rock riffs, soulful melodies, pop hooks and tons and tons of passion.

Take a listen to my favourite tunes:

"Wordless Chorus"

"It Beats 4 U"

"Gideon"

"What a Wonderful Man"

"Off the Record"

"Anytime"

"Lay Low"

Pic from My Morning Jacket.

New music from My Morning Jacket's new album The Waterfall

My Morning Jacket have a new album called The Waterfall coming out May 4. They've let us hear a new tune called "Big Decisions". It's a cool-sounding rock tune with agonized slide, big chords and an arena-sized chorus.

They're embarking on a tour and they dip into Canada briefly for their June 7 headlining appearance at Field Trip.

Pic from the band's site.

Field Trip Line-Up

Field Trip is back for its third year at Fort York / Garrison Common in Toronto on June 6 and 7. As usual, it's a fantastic line-up of bands covering a wide range of genres. Check out some of the acts I'm most looking forward to, get excited and get your tickets. They're on sale now.

Alabama Shakes

My Morning Jacket

Marina & the Diamonds

Father John Misty

Arkells

The War on Drugs

Purity Ring

Young Empires

Rhye

Dan Mangan & Blacksmith

Kevin Drew & Andy Kim

Lee Fields & the Expressions

Apostle of Hustle

Temples

Five-by-Five: 2005 was a very good year

As I posted last week, 2005 stands out as an amazing year in music for me. I discovered some amazing bands and some of my favourite bands put out their strongest albums in 2005. Here's part two of my Five-by-Five post on amazing tunes from 2005.

"Monster Hospital" from Metric's guitar-driven Live It Out

"Sunken-Eyed Girl" from Mike Doughty's super-solid Haughty Melodic

"Anytime" from My Morning Jacket's unbelievably good Z

"Abel" from The National's near perfect Alligator

The title track from The New Pornographer's stupendous Twin Cinema

Not to mention Hard-Fi's The Stars of CCTV and Maximo Park's A Certain Trigger that I featured in another Five-by-Five post.