For the New Yorkers who saw My Morning Jacket perform on VH1 Storytellers on February 24, this may be old news. So to my friends in other parts of the country I say, guess what! My Morning Jacket are putting out a new album! The Rolling Stone snagged them for an interview and learned the details of Circuital's beginnings:
Some of the first songs written for the disc, including "Wonderful" and the power-poppy "Out of My System," were originally intended to be played by Muppets: An exec recruited My Morning Jacket to record music for a new version of the Electric Mayhem band (the one with Animal on drums), promising a Gorillaz-style tour where MMJ would play behind a curtain while Muppet holograms bashed away onstage. The psyched band began writing and demo'ing, but the exec got fired and the project disappeared.
Can you imagine! Muppets + My Morning Jacket! It's a shame the project didn't go through, and that Jason Segal rejected their songs for his upcoming Muppet movie as well. Fuzzy puppets aside, you can look forward to new material soon, plus tons of face time at these upcoming festivals:
My Morning Jacket 2011 Tour Dates:
04.17 Lexington, KY - Memorial Coliseum (University of Kentucky)
05.20-22 Gulf Shores, AL - Hangout Festival
06.02-05 Ozark, AR - Wakarusa Festival
06.02-05 Hunter, NY - Mountain Jam
06.09-12 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival
06.30 - 07.03 Quincy, CA - High Sierra Music Festival
(via P4K)