My Morning Jacket on Thursday brought its ongoing outing behind 2025 LP is—cleverly billed as My Morning Jacket is On Tour—to Brooklyn, NY’s recently revitalized Brooklyn Paramount for its first of three shows this weekend.

To kick off the night, Jim James and company reached back 20 years into the past for a full performance of 2005’s acclaimed Z, one of several planned recreations of the album sprinkled across the tour’s schedule.

The 20th anniversary of Z has brought about a period of reflection for the Louisville, KY-native group. In a recent Rolling Stone Podcast interview about the album, which James wrote during a period of deep depression following the deaths of two different friends by suicide, he explained, “I thought it would be our last album,” he says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now that celebrates that album’s 20th anniversary. “That’s why I named it Z. Because I was entertaining taking my own life as well, and I was feeling so pessimistic that I was sure that [the album] wouldn’t work out. I was sure that it would suck and that everybody would hate it and that everything would collapse. That’s how powerful depression is. And thankfully, that wasn’t what happened.”

Instead, Z was just the start for the band’s enduring—and current—lineup of James (vocals, guitar), keyboardist Bo Koster, guitarist Carl Broemel, bassist Tom Blankenship, and drummer Patrick Hallahan.

Related: My Morning Jacket Celebrates 20 Years Of ‘Z’ With Deluxe Reissue, New “Wordless Chorus” Video, More [Video/Audio]

Past and present, beginnings and endings flowed into one another via the Jacket’s thrilling recreation of Z in Brooklyn: This singular unit brought two decades of fruitful connection and life lived to a collection of songs that once marked a new beginning (even as it’s title suggested something much more final). No longer was there any doubt about the vitality and longevity of this music or this band.

Further illustrating that notion, the band went on fit both new is material (“Squid Ink” and “Die For It”) and the live debut of a long forgotten, recently revived Z outtake (“The Devil’s Peanut Butter”) into the non-Z portion of the energized performance. Then and now, My Morning Jacket was—and is—alive and thriving.

Below, check out the full setlist, a selection of crowd-shot videos via YouTube user @dillsnufus, and a gallery of photos from the night via Andrew Blackstein.

My Morning Jacket returns to Brooklyn Paramount on Friday and Saturday nights. From there, the tour is set to continue to Cincinnati, OH (10/20), Madison, WI (10/22), Chicago, IL (10/24, 10/25, 10/26), Nashville, TN (10/29), and Atlanta, GA (10/31). Click below for more details. Find tickets to upcoming My Morning Jacket tour dates here.

MY MORNING JACKET “is” ON TOUR – UPCOMING 2025 DATES

OCTOBER
17 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount §
18 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount §
20 – Cincinnati, OH – MegaCorp Pavilion §
22 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee §
24 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed §
25 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed § (SOLD OUT)
26 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed § *
29 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle §
31 – Atlanta, GA – Fox Theatre §

NOVEMBER
1 – Atlanta, GA – Fox Theatre ^ *

* Z – 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW
§ w/ special guests BALTHVS
^ w/ special guests Babehoven

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Setlist: My Morning Jacket | Brooklyn Paramount | Brooklyn, NY | 10/16/25
Set: [Wordless Chorus, It Beats 4 U, Gideon, What a Wonderful Man, Off the Record, Into the Woods, Anytime, Lay Low, Knot Comes Loose, Dondante], Chills, Where to Begin, Half a Lifetime, The Devil’s Peanut Butter [1], Squid Ink, Wasted > En La Ceremony > Wasted
Encore: Tropics (Erase Traces), Smokin’ From Shootin’, Die for It, Mahgeetah.
Notes: First ten songs (Wordless Chorus through Dondante) comprise full-album performance of 2005’s Z. [1] Live debut.

My Morning Jacket | Brooklyn Paramount | Brooklyn, NY | 10/16/25 | Photos: Andrew Blackstein