The Chart Show: My Morning Jacket snag No.1 spot ahead of two big Northrop gigs
by Mark Wheat
June 04, 2015
On Friday, June 26 you have the unique chance of seeing the top two bands on this week's Chart, My Morning Jacket and Hippo Campus, on stage at the newly renovated Northrop on the University of Minnesota campus. The next night My Morning Jacket will be joined by opening act Lizzo! Tickets are still available for both shows.
Submit your Chart Show ballot this week for a chance to win tickets to Mumford and Sons' Gentlemen of the Road Stopover in Waverly, IA, plus a camping pass!
Tame Impala jumped ten places to #4 this week. Kevin Parker and Jay Watson of the band hosted the most recent edition of Theft of the Dial, mixing Timbaland with Queens of the Stone Age and ... Redinho?
One of five new entries, Dawes' new album All Your Favourite Bands is released this week. Frontman Taylor Goldsmith chatted with Jade about the making of the record and how they have grown accustomed to and even look forward to being on tour for long periods of time.
Other new entries come from the Decemberists, Benjamin Booker and JD McPherson, who will be at Rock the Garden this year. Tickets are available for both days, featuring performances by other Chart Show favorites including Modest Mouse, Lucius and Belle and Sebastian, who are inducted to the Chart Show Hall of Fame this week for the second time alongside Hozier for the third.
Blur are back, too, and though we might not be able to see them live here in Minnesota, bassist Alex recently suggested that if their old nemesis Oasis got back together they would open for Blur?!?! What a double bill that would be! Speaking of Oasis, I got to see Noel Gallagher in Chicago last week on his birthday! The crowd kept singing to him and he kept interacting with hecklers in front with mostly hilarious put downs. My favorite song preamble was when he made a big deal of introducing his saxophone player (he had a three-man horn section, something that Oasis would never have), saying that the next song had a long sax solo and then said it was called "Live Forever!" Some of the crowd cheered wildly
expecting one of their favorite Oasis songs, then he derided them as idiots, saying that it doesn't have a sax on it! I worried that his dry and caustic wit was lost on some of the audience members but they were all totally behind him when he ended the show with
"Don't Look Back In Anger" – the whole place was singing along like we were in Manchester!
Catfish and the Bottlemen—recently described as a heady melding of Oasis and Arctic Monkeys—had to delay their tour start stateside when they had problems getting their visas. Their sold out show at the Varsity Theater next Tuesday shouldn't be affected.
Built To Spill have always had a good reputation with indie guitar heads, similar perhaps to My Morning Jacket whose fans buoyed the Idaho heroes up 10 places. Frontman Doug Marsch recently talked about their triple guitar attack with Guitar World.