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My Morning Jacket to Treat KCRW Members to Intimate Live Performance
My Morning Jacket performs "Mahgeetah" on YouTube's Unplugged series, May 31, 2011
If you like KCRW and My Morning Jacket then you'll want to have your fingers warmed up and ready at your keyboard / cellphone at 10 a.m.
On June 21, KCRW is presenting My Morning Jacket live for 250 members and guests at The Village studios in West L.A. Tickets are available for $125 exclusively for KCRW members at 10 a.m. today. If you have any doubt about dropping the cash, clearly you are not aware that My Morning Jacket puts on as good a live show as any touring band today, as evidenced by last night's YouTube stream from Louisville, produced by Todd Haynes.
Click here for more info and to score tix. Rest assured, all proceeds benefit KCRW. Today's pre-sale is exclusively for members. Click here if you need to re-up your membership.
Below, video of MMJ performing "Wordless Chorus" with special guest Erykah Badu from the epic YouTube/Vevo stream from last night's performance.
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