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  Austin City Limits 2010: The Best Photos

  October 11, 2010 –  …
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  The Best Moments of Austin City Limits 2010

  October 11, 2010 – Now in its eighth year, the Austin City Limits festival has worked hard to broaden the city's laid-back, hippies-and-roots-rockers reputation by booking edgier acts like the Pixies, Massive Attack, the Mars Volta, N.E.R.D., and Queens of the Stone Age. For the 2010 incarnation of the ACL Fest, though, they seemed instead to embrace it -- headliners included Phish and the Eagles, respectively, with a Saturday night set from M.I.A. …
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• The Roots, 'How I Got Over' (Def Jam)

  June 24, 2010 – When Jim James addresses a higher power on Monsters of Folk's "Dear God"-gently entreating, "Why do we suffer?"-he sounds like an uneasy supplicant. But on the Roots' "Dear God 2.0" (also featuring James), frontman Black Thought goes B-boy Book of Job, decrying technology, acid rain, tsunamis, stock-market collapse, wars, atrocities. Then he spits bluntly: "Why is the world so ugly when you made it in your image?" Sheeeeit. …
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  Monsters of Folk Kick Off U.S. Tour

  October 14, 2009 – Monsters of Folk -- the indie supergroup featuring M. Ward, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, and Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis -- gave the crowd at Vancouver's Commodore ballroom their money's worth with an epic two-and-a-half-hour set on the opening night of their U.S. …
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  Q&A: Monsters of Folk

  October 12, 2009 – The term "supergroup" tends to get thrown around a lot, but often the tag just doesn't sit right. Consider Damn Yankees. Or Zwan. Or more recently, Chickenfoot. …
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• Monsters of Folk, 'Monsters of Folk' (Shangri-La Music)

  September 1, 2009 – Supergroups suck. Even the ones that don't totally disappoint (Blind Faith, CSNY) are always somehow less than the sum of their parts. Into these dicey straits lurch the cheekily named Monsters of Folk, a collaboration among My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, indie-folk strummer M. Ward, and Bright eyes cohorts Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis. …
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  Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward Supergroup Announces Tour

  July 23, 2009 – Indie supergroup Monsters of Folk has announced plans for a fall tour, kicking off October 13 in Vancouver, BC, before hitting 16 cities across the U.S. The band -- Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, and M. …
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