Monsters of Folk (Jim James, MWard, Conor Oberst, Mike Moogis, Will Johnson) hit Portland tonight on the second night of their world tour. Expect tunes from their recently released album, Monsters of Folk, as well as numbers from each artists solo career. Featuring the primary members of My Morning Jacket, Bright Eyes, Centro-matic & our very own MWard, this promises to be a great show!BIO: Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Matt Ward, and Saddle Creek auteur Mike Mogis' much-ballyhooed entrée-- what one assumes is our era's Traveling Wilburys. During a 2004 collaboration- and cover-heavy tour billed "An Evening with Bright Eyes, Jim James, and M. Ward," the quartet committed to making an album when time permitted. Recorded in bursts in Malibu and Omaha, Monsters of Folk often took the backseat to its creators' primary concerns. Since that tour, Oberst released three successively weak albums as Bright Eyes before leaving his own label and recasting himself as a wild-eyed, globe-trotting troubadour under his own name for Merge Records. Ward, now Oberst's labelmate, has since released four albums of retro distillations, including Volume One, the debut of his project with actress Zooey Deschanel known as She & Him. James' My Morning Jacket has grown into one of the biggest American rock bands, his distinctive, reverb-heavy vocals and his band's sharp riffs and hooks putting them somewhere between, say, Wilco and the Black Crowes. Meanwhile, Mogis has produced records by Ward, Oberst, Tilly and the Wall, Cursive, and about a dozen others.
URL: http://monstersoffolk.com/
PRESS: Pitchfork / Spin / NPR
MP3/Download: Monsters of Folk - Ahead of the Curve
MP3/Download: Monsters of Folk - Man Named Truth
Monsters of Folk
Wednesday, October 14th
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Time: 8PM / Tix: $25-$50
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