Music Forecast 8.13-8.19: My Morning Jacket, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Miguel, Lake Street Dive

My Morning Jacket

In April, My Morning Jacket released The Waterfall, the first album by the Louisville, Kentucky, band in four years. And though the tracks unfurl with guns blazing — a triumphant return to form for the band — the album feels like an extended vacation, with mystical riffs and a hazy, trippy reverb coating such songs as “Tropics (Erase Traces)” and “In Its Infancy (The Waterfall).” Jim James remains a captivating frontman — half rock star, half witch doctor. You don’t need to be a huge My Morning Jacket fan to enjoy this show, but chances are that after you attend, you will be.

Thursday, August 13, Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Road, Swope Park, 816-363-7827)

Rodrigo y Gabriela, with Making Movies

Most acoustic-guitar acts can’t claim Rodrigo y Gabriela’s intense and multidimensional sound. It’s not enough that the Mexico-via-Ireland musicians are guitar virtuosos, bending their intricate melodies and supple rhythms to ethereal patterns. No, these two also marry their influences — flamenco and heavy metal — in an unlikely but wholly successful union. Friday at the Uptown, bear witness to spellbinding musicianship that will stay with you for days. Local Latin-rock fusion band Making Movies opens.

Friday, August 14, Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665)

Gillian Welch

The last album we heard from folk singer and songwriter Gillian Welch was 2011’s The Harrow & the Harvest. That album came after an eight-year drought from Welch and her partner, songwriter and guitarist David Rawlings, and the reward for Welch’s loyal fans was wholly felt. The Harrow & the Harvest is dark, sparse and deeply intuitive. Who knows when we’ll see another album from Welch — perhaps we’ve got another four years to go — but in the meantime, she and Rawlings have announced a new summer tour. The intimate Folly Theater should prove an ideal match for their music. Don’t skip this show.

Friday, August 14, Folly Theater (300 West 12th Street, 816-474-4444)

Miguel

Miguel has come a long way since his earnest 2012 breakthrough album, Kaleidoscope Dream. You may remember that album’s best songs, its title cut and the hit single “Adorn,” as the tracks that gave your significant other bedroom eyes. But this year’s Wildheart is having none of that. Miguel still wants to seduce you, but this time around, his lyrics don’t go probing around the deeper side of your sexuality. Three years later, Miguel is over the romance. But that isn’t to say this Grammy winner won’t pull out all the stops for his Midland concert. Earlier this month, an ab-flashing Miguel crowd-surfed in NYC. Whether you’ve got a partner to gyrate with on Sunday night or you plan on making a friend, at the very least you’ll have better luck here than on Tinder.

Sunday, August 16, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

Lake Street Dive

If Rachael Price ever wanted to strike a career on her own — solo singer, gospel choir ringleader, Broadway superstar, whatever — the path would be easy for her. This woman has a voice that could shatter mirrors and stop traffic with its booming volume and robust phrasing. But Price seems comfortable with her role as frontwoman in Brooklyn four-piece Lake Street Dive, and it’s no wonder. With the help of bassist Bridget Kearney, drummer Mike Calabrese, and guitarist and trumpeter Mike Olson, Price has the perfect support for her voice (and occasional ukulele playing). See Lake Street Dive Tuesday at Knuckleheads in support of last year’s superb Bad Self Portraits.

Tuesday, August 18, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)