{"id":3154,"date":"2025-06-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/my-morning-jacket-z-20th-anniversary-shows\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:00:00","slug":"my-morning-jacket-z-20th-anniversary-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/my-morning-jacket-z-20th-anniversary-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"My Morning Jacket Set \u2018Z\u2019 20th Anniversary Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/01\/My-Morning-Jacket-is-album-announce-photo-credit-Silvia-Grav-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"968\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>My Morning Jacket are expanding their summer and fall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymorningjacket.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\">North American tour<\/a> with five new shows featuring a complete performance of their 2005 album <em>Z<\/em>, in honor of the latter\u2019s 20th anniversary. The dates will be tacked onto previously announced stands in Denver (Aug. 15), Los Angeles (Aug. 19), Brooklyn, N.Y. (Oct. 16), Chicago (Oct. 26) and Atlanta (Nov. 1).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOct. 4 is the 20th anniversary of our album <em>Z<\/em>. It\u2019s pretty wild to think about that,\u201d frontman Jim James says. \u201cTo celebrate two decades of it being out in the ether, we\u2019re excited to be turning five of our shows into special <em>Z<\/em> anniversary shows, where we\u2019ll play that album (and some other songs, don\u2019t worry) front to back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/sarah-mclachlan-new-album\/\">Sarah McLachlan Returns With \u2018Better\u2019 New Album<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/taylor-swift-nashville-performance\/\">Taylor Swift Wows Nashville Club With Surprise Performance<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/jack-white-collected-lyrics\/\">Jack White\u2019s \u2018Collected Lyrics\u2019 Compiled For New Book<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Louisville, Ky.-reared band\u2019s fourth full-length, <em>Z<\/em> marked the first studio contributions from guitarist Carl Broemel and keyboardist Bo Koster, who joined as touring members the prior year.  After three albums of reverb-drenched Southern rock and folk, MMJ took a giant artistic long-jump forward with\u00a0<em>Z<\/em>, 10 tracks of experimental psychedelia mostly devoid of their former alt-country sound and often referred to as America\u2019s reply to Radiohead\u2019s\u00a0<em>OK Computer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to favorite such as the burbling opener \u201cWordless Chorus,\u201d the soaring \u201cGideon\u201d and the rockers \u201cAnytime\u201d and \u201cLay Low,\u201d the album greatly expanded My Morning Jacket\u2019s fanbase, reaching a career-best No. 67 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fun to imagine that My Morning Jacket\u2019s Jim James composes his songs by wailing into an abandoned railroad tunnel, his beard moist with sweat, his corduroy sport coat flapping rakishly in the updraft,\u201d SPIN wrote in its contemporary review. \u201c<em>Z<\/em>\u00a0imagines a dance floor covered in sawdust and a musty smell wafting from under the boards. For every moment of ambient weirdness, there\u2019s a blast of rock guitar that reminds you that the listener isn\u2019t required to do all the work. Somewhere between their love of the blues and their affection for the dark disco of \u2018Blue Monday,\u2019 James and friends manage to make ambitious music seem like fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Aug. 5 in Bend, Or., My Morning Jacket will hit the road in support of their latest LP, <em>is<\/em>, which was produced by Brendan O\u2019Brien (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden). One song from it, \u201cHalf a Lifetime,\u201d dates all the way back to the <em>Z <\/em>era. \u201cIt\u2019s a song we had completely forgotten about because we never made a rough mix of it at the time,\u201d James <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/03\/its-the-universe-speaking-jim-james-on-the-making-of-my-morning-jackets-new-album\/\">told SPIN<\/a> earlier this year. \u201cI was digging through old hard drives and found it; Brendan ended up liking it and picking it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Morning Jacket are expanding their summer and fall North American tour with five new shows featuring a complete performance of their 2005 album Z, in honor of the latter\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2134,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-morning-jacket","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}