Well that was fast. Here’s the full download of My Morning Jacket’s hometown show at Louisville’s Waterfront Park. It’s over three hours long and really good.

ZIP: My Morning Jacket at Louisville’s Waterfront Park 8.16.08

Thanks to The Steam Engine for alerting me to the existence of this bootleg.

I hate to pimp promotions companies, but Production Simple are just about the only thing keeping Kentucky from becoming a desolate wasteland of empty music venues. They’re putting on the Girl Talk, Vampire Weekend and Pinback shows (as well as that last My Morning Jacket show) and now they’re bringing in The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers to Louisville.

The Hold Steady w/ the Drive-By Truckers: Thursday October 30th @ Coyote’s at CityBlock. Advance tickets are $23, at the door is $25. 18+ show.

The Hold Steady/Drive-By Truckers Tour Dates
10-30 Louisville, KY - Coyote’s at City Block *
10-31 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium !
11-01 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle !
11-02 Tallahassee, FL - The Moon *
11-03 Raleigh, NC - Lincoln Theatre !
11-05 State College, PA - The State Theatre *
11-06 New York, NY - Terminal 5 !
11-07 New York, NY - Terminal 5 *
11-08 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory !
11-09 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre *
11-11 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Theatre !
11-12 Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Music Hall *
11-13 Bloomington, IN - Bluebird !
11-13 Chicago, IL - Riviera *
11-15 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue !
11-16 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
11-19 Boise, ID - The Big Easy !
11-20 Seattle, WA - Showbox *
11-21 Seattle, WA - Showbox !
11-22 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
11-23 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore !
11-24 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore *
11-25 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern *

* the Hold Steady closing
! Drive-By Truckers closing

Thanks to Chris for this new White Denim song from their upcoming album Exposion.

MP3: White Denim - Sitting
This is a pretty different White Denim than I’m used to hearing. It sounds like the Cold War Kids with a little bit of the Who thrown in. But whatever they’ve got bubbling around in their heads, it’s something that I’m more than happy to have stuck in mine.

White Denim on Myspace

I bought Intelligence’s Deuteronomy a long time ago but just now uploaded it to my computer. In a way, it’s a weird present to myself to have waited so long — I kind of forgot how great these songs are.

MP3: Intelligence - Dating Cops

And as a fun treat, here’s their crab-filled video!

Inteligence: “Dating Cops”

Thanks to BV for the heads-up.

AOL Spinner:
“Carl Newman is currently mixing his as-yet-untitled long-player - set for a January release - and is especially enthusiastic about the lineup of musicians who contribute to the new tunes. “My friend John Wurster, who drums with Superchunk and the Mountain Goats, did most of the drumming,” he says. “A singer named Nicole Atkins did a lot of singing on it. She’s a really killer singer; she kind of reminds me of a cross between Mama Cass and the Shangri-La’s.”

Currently in the home stretch of completing the CD, Newman admits that he is his own best friend and worst enemy when it comes to working on the project. “Every time I make a record, I sit there thinking, ‘It sounds too different,’ and then the next day I think, ‘it sounds the same as everything else,’” he says. “The next day, I’ll go, ‘It’s perfect,’ and the day after that I’ll think, ‘Its all wrong.’ I just put my head down, try to work hard, hope for the best and hope that people buy it so I can continue doing this for a living.” As soon as the solo effort is complete, Newman plans to “immediately” begin work on the next Pornographers record.

As a giant fan of A.C. Newman’s Slow Wonder this is fantastic news to me. The last New Pornographers record was kind of mediocre, so I’m assuming he saved most of his magic for this solo record.

Miles with Not Yoko Ono

Ex-Beulah frontman Miles Kurosky seems to be in a very generous mood lately. First he shared with us an advance peak at his new album with the song “An Apple for Everyone.” Then he gave us the last Beulah song ever recorded: a remix of Yoko Ono. Now we’re again getting a special treat.

This time it’s an alternate version of the same Yoko Ono song, “Let Me Count the Ways.” Strangely when her songs are in Beulah’s hands, she actually sounds quite lovely. A far cry from when I saw her live.

Anyway, head on over to Miles’ Myspace page to listen to both versions of the song and remember how great Beulah was.

Speaking of which, I just grabbed The Coast is Never Clear on vinyl for $13 including shipping and handling on eBay. Barring any online shenanigans, I feel the need to celebrate!

Thanks to I Am Fuel, You Are Friends for the MP3.

I was getting a lot of mixed feelings about Wilco’s new song they unleashed at Lollapalooza, “One Wing” — hell, I was one of those people having mixed feelings. The beginning was a little shaky, but the end was pretty darn good. Well, this might be the song to shoo away any worries about their next record. “Sunny Feeling” sounds like a sunny Summerteeth jam with a little dash of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Love, love it.

MP3: Wilco - Sunny Feeling

Wilco’s new album hits stores whenever they feel like it.

Finishing out their three-hour set at Louisville’s Waterfront Park, Jim James told us about a theory where there’s a version of you at every moment of your life still occupying places you’ve been. After going through an equally puzzling explanation of that theory, Jim simplified it for us: “Think about that the next time you’re out here throwing the frisbee — a part of you is still here with everyone else at this show.”

And what an affirmation of all the great energy in the air — a welcome last thought to a show that was all about the good of Louisville. However, looking back on it, that means that there’s still a part of me that’s stuck in traffic on the way to Louisville and a part of me that’s standing in a really, really long Will Call line. So maybe we’ll just focus on the part of me that’s still there watching My Morning Jacket.

I arrived late to the show after sitting in traffic behind an unfortunate accident. Sliding in during the second song, I snapped a few pictures of Jim before being ushered off to the side of the stage. The show was a great one, to be sure, but didn’t quite hit the levels that their Bonnaroo set did. It was more of a gift to Louisville rather than one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen. Funny — I never thought I’d prefer a show after midnight, in the rain surrounded by thousands of sweaty fans to one in the cool evening with some perfect weather.

But it was a great show. The new songs still sound amazing live (”I’m Amazed” especially) and the old tunes played out great with a crowd of thousands who had spent years getting to know them. In truth it was the classics that got the loudest cheers from the people up front; though Z and Evil Urges material won the most universal acclaim.

In the end, I was just glad to be a part of a My Morning Jacket hometown show. I’ve spent the past two years missing trips, fumbling ticket situations and just generally not being a part of some of Kentucky’s greatest celebrations. But there I was: sitting on the grass with thousands of other people, watching My Morning Jacket, one of the world’s best bands who also happen to shop at Ear-X Tacy, drink Ale-8 and go to shows at Headliner’s.

Who would have thought that the Bluegrass would have given birth to some of the last real rock gods?