Jack White’s Private Q&A: ‘I Don’t Belong Here’
I only go to New York if I have to, nothing feels special there when you’re creative, everyone feels like they’ve seen and done it all, hard for me to be inspired.’
Jack White Has Declared ‘Music Sacred’!
Despite what his label pretends, Jack White has declared music sacred because he is a pompous royalty pissed off that the system allows kids to get his music for free. He is angry that Tidal is going to sink, because why would anyone pick Tidal over Spotify or YouTube when you can use these two for free?
Jay Z Launches Tidal, His New Streaming Service
Jay Z recently purchased the streaming service for some $56 million and he wants to make it as a competitor to Spotify, or Rdio. Alicia called it the ‘beginning of a whole new era’,… but for whom exactly? A new era for Jay Z and Madonna to make even more money? What’s new exactly? A new sound? a better listening experience?
Jack White Wants To Reissue Elvis Presley’s First Recording On Record Store Day
White told his employees at Third Man Records in Nashville that the label will issue this on vinyl on Record Store Day… This piece is totally historic and unique, it’s the King’s first ever record, which was recorded on July 18th 1953 by a 18-year-old Presley at Sam Phillips’ Memphis Recording Service for only $4.
Jack White’s No Banana Tour
So you have it, White doesn’t want you to take journalist classes because you may, one day, reveal that he hates bananas! Have you ever heard something more ridiculous? The student paper answered White in an editorial entitled ‘Setting the record straight about Jack White’, although I don’t think they needed to defend themselves.
Best Of 2015: Best Concerts Through January 31st, 2015
I thought these indie rockers from Cincinatti were great at the time and I thought they were greater when I thought back on it. Essentially, they are a midwestern Shellshag who didn’t make it through the long run as a couple have lived to explain the pitfalls and disasters of romantic love and this night played em down to the ground.
Jack White At Madison Square Garden, Friday, January 30th, Reviewed
White keeps on claiming a luddite’s worship of the analog but really he just swaps one set of tools for another. He is a complete 21st century weirdo. A creeped out. cold as ice, asshole. How can’t you love a show like that?
In Anticipation Of MSG On Saturday, Jack White’s Setlist 2015 (Spotified As Well!!)
5 songs from the excellent Blunderbuss but only 4 off Lazaretto, which suggest he realizes he dogged it proper, 8 White Stripes tracks, rwo from the Raconteurs (the best two as well) and nothing from Dead Weather
Some Of The Best Music Quotes Of 2014
I have more, the ultra narcissist over-the-top one: ‘My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live’, the confessional ones, ‘Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books’
Jack White's Old Single Found In Furniture?
According to Pitchfork, two copies of The Upholsters’ second single, ‘Your Furniture Was Always Dead… I Was Just Afraid to Tell You’ were found by two different individuals, hidden in a piece of furniture!
Not With The Band: Drummers Are The Smartest?
A psychology professor at the University of Washington who ‘used rhythmic light and sound therapy on his students and discovered that their grades improved’. Other studies have even used the same method on middle school boys with ADD, with successful results!
Not With The Band: Women In Music, Have We Really Made Any Progress?
‘I’m tired of men who aren’t professional or even accomplished musicians continually offering to ‘help me out’ (without being asked), as if i did this by accident and i’m gonna flounder without them. or as if the fact that I’m a woman makes me incapable of using technology.”
Farm Aid 2014 Line UP
The event has released its 2014 line up and surprise!! Jack White is on board. The ghastly man who is the color of milk fed veal will bring his sound to Raleigh North Carolina s Walnut Creek Amphitheater on September 13th.
Jack White Performs Three Hour Set In Chicago (About as Long As The Last Three Times I Saw him Combined)
Lazaretto is one of his worst works to date, and three hours of his metallic shredding woulda had me ready to kill him among others. below you’ll find his cover of “Manic Depression” -just what the world needed. White has worn out all the good will his radio city residency had with me and then some
We Review Rolling Stone's Playlist
Rolling Stone magazine has their latest Playlist in their newest issue, seven songs they’ve recommended to us jackjills for our perusal. Not as strong this time I’m afraid, and one song, Tweedy’s (a collaboration between Jeff Tweedy and his 18-year old son) “I’ll Sing It” isn’t on YouTube and the sound has been removed on other sources, so I can’t comment on it, but here be the other six :
Jack White's Elaborate Secret London Gig: An outbreak, An Ambulance And A Few Songs
Fans were asked to complete lab rat maze tests, attempt to master a Rubik’s cube, listen to random songs, honestly, I would have refused and left right there, but they went through the whole game, which didn’t stop there: a patient was declared contagious, people had to hurry into a dark corridor filling with dry ice
Let's Play With Food For The Rock Stars
But let’s imagine for a minute all the possibilities for other bands. If it would be very easy to imagine any entrée inspired by the Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Meat Loaf, Salt-N-Pepa, Spice Girls, the Black Eyed Peas, Korn
One More Time! Jack White Is A Jerk- Suddenly Apologizes
He also claims he “personally championed” Meg White for 15 years, but then apologized, took everything back, and wrote a formal letter saying sorry with his tail between his legs. The man’s grown into a bitter cow who’s too busy falling in love with his own work to respect anyone else. I’m, very unfortunately, disgusted.
US Top 10 Albums 6-27-14
As bad as Lazeretto is, the vinyl sounds awesome: it plays backwards and forwards, there is a holagram of an angel, alternative songs depending on where you put the needle down. The result? The vinyl alone sold an astonishing 40,000 copies and vinyl alone? White would have been at # 4 on the charts. Meanwhile, that country album? Painfully bad.
No Apologies, Whats Up With The Rockers Being So Sorry?
So now Jack White issues this public apology for bad behavior and I cant help but wonder why he is being such a pussy. C’mon already with the apologetic bullshit when we all know it was meant- and that it’s ok to feel as you do. In support of his upcoming release Lazzaretto, he is on a press junket providing an interviewers dream
UK Top 10 ALbums 6-21-14
Hank Marvin still has a beautiful tone to his guitar and these instrumental versions of early 60s to late 70s hits is pretty wonderful, meanwhile at the top of the charts Kasabian are probably the best English rock group ion the world today.
Jack White's "Lazaretto" Reviewed
It is, the word is, mediocre. The songs aren’t good enough, Jack’s voice grates by the end because there isn’t enough oomph to bring it all back home, and int he end, if you think Jack is an asshole any way, there is no reason to do much but dismiss it.
Jack White, “Alone In My House” On Conan Reviewed
So The Adams Family has released a new song and performed it on Conan June 11th. Luckily Gomez and Morticia stopped speaking in French long enough to get this twangy tune in the can. It seems Gomez is no longer able to shower and is boycotting the barber, Morticia has been sucking on helium so much it’s hard to recognize her voice any more.
10 Songs: Friday, June 13th, 2014
Bill Bruisers – The New Pornographers – This is a nicely bruising pop rocker with vocal hooks on top of vocal hooks from a band who have been around forever but for whom I’ve never had all that much time, by this one they got right – B+
Be Here Now: Snapshot Reviews Of New Album Releases 6-10-14
Gypsy Heart Side A EP – Colbie Caillat – A long time fan of the pop singer, this five song 18 minute EP has nary a clunker in the lot: a sweet sound giving Taylor Swift a run for her money. “Blaze” is fabulous – ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A-
Jack White Misses His Youth (and Who Doesn't?)
On the press junket for his soon to be released album Lazaretto he’s babbling like a brook about just about anything. He got a bit introspective and somewhat melancholy over youth- it’s not as if he’s in the twilight of his days but hey let the man chat
10 Songs: Monday, June 9th, 2014
Everybody’s Something – Chance The Rapper – The difference between the version Chance sang at his Governor’s Ball star making turn is this is the way Chance boiled the song down to its “everybody’s somebody’s everything, nobody’s nothing at all” hook and than got a full house who was gagging for it, to sing it with all its heart , the verses and backing track are a touch too dark on Acid Rap – A-
Governors Ball Day Two: Saturday, June 7th, 2014: The Strokes Versus Jack White
Saturday was incredibly busy at Randall’s Island, a complete sell out from one end of the Island to the other with young kids, mostly college sophomores by the looks of it, planting themselves on every available inch of green. But the lineup wasn’t as good as Friday’s line up
Television Lite June 9th – June 13th, 2014
Fall Out Boy is on Ellen. That’s the oddest thing to me. Pop punk old men are sitting on her couch. Im not sure why I find this so striking, they’re not exactly ‘Alternative’ but for some reason I still consider them lesser known.. I have a mental block with them.
Sneak Peaks: New Album Releases For Week Of June 9th, 2014
Sure, you thought it was gonna be Jack White (who I am seeing at Govs Ball today) but no, I’ve heard the new one many times and I think it is solid but not Blunderbuss, it lacks focus and it doesn’t have enough great songs. But Chrissie? Three songs in and I love em all and did you see her with the Roots the other day? Pretty excellent, right? Otherwise, I really wanna hear the Hot Chip cat and I am wondering about Ice T. First Aid Kit? O.A.R.?
Stream Jack White's New 'Lazaretto' Album on iTunes Radio!
By the way, a lazaretto (and I didn’t know this) is a quarantine station for maritime travelers or a leper colony (named after the parable of Lazarus the beggar). Does Jack White feel in quarantine in the music world, does he think he is the leper of these times?
The Jack White Setlist Annonated And Spotified For Your Please
The problem with Jack White is that, now Lou Reed is dead, he must be the hands down biggest asshole in pop music. I am not guessing here, I have a very good friend who worked for him a couple of years back and can’t mention his name without spitting.
Rock Stars Do Apologize Too!
By the same token he did trash Lana Del Rey, Adele who ‘would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive’, and the media recently reminded us he also had a few nice words about his ex-wife and bandmate Meg White, who was ‘uninterested’ and who wasn’t apparently worshipping him as she should hav
10 Songs, Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
Time Forgot – Conor Oberst – Not a bad little folkie whiner but he comes across as such a prick it’s a turn off. He wants to not shave and not have to be nice to people; from what I hear that would be business as usual – B+
Jack White, 'Just One Drink' Reviewed
It’s like George Thorogood , Elvis Presley and The Beatles dropped their DNA and this was created. An incredible Tennessee sound so much so that it sounds like something out of Sun- but it’s Third Man.
Jack White Wants You To Have 'Just One Drink’
Jack White is always insulting the Black Keys for ripping off his sound, but what does he think he is doing with this one? But some people on Twitter were wondering if the song wasn’t some shot at Meg White’s drinking, and this could make the song interesting.
Jack White Explains His Ultra LP
First of all, Jack White looks so stiff and pissed off at the beginning of the video, and the yellow-tied guy is handling the LP with so much precaution that this set the tone for the rest: White’s LP are some rare religious antiquities and should be venerated as such.
Jack White, “High Ball Stepper” Reviewed
Jack has gotten more front porch bluesy since he packed it up for Nashville and I think that may just be the norm. Tennessee has a grip on folk and if it doesnt make you twangy it sorta messes with your brai
Let's Blast Jack White's New Track 'High Ball Stepper’
There are no lyrics for this new Jack White’s tune but honestly ‘High Ball Stepper’ doesn’t need any! Plus, nobody is going to take this stomping, aggressive, blistering, bluesy thing, that the ex-White Stripes frontman dropped on April fools’ day, for a joke
Neil Young And Jack White Have Collaborated On A Covers Album
Him and Bruce and Jack and Bono: they all hate people, they hate em even when they are playing charity gigs for em, they’ve all been around for so long it is too hard to even feign indifference. Indifference is too much for Neil Young, Jack won’t even speak to the audience at an encore. Neil does it through gritted teeth but Jack just wants to deal with the proles when they are delivering his pizza after the show.
Jack White- Token Cracker
No matter what it is, someone with a camera phone took this picture and made my entire day- if not my week. Sticking Jack in there like a marshmallow in the hot chocolate restored my faith in humanity and made me realize just how whacked things have gotten.
Rockin’ Legends Pay Tribute To Jack White
Jack White is 38 years old and has the ego of a much older man. Older as in having accomplished a whole lot more to be arrogant about. One of his greatest characteristics is his smugness. It is part of the whole eccentric image.
'Inside Llewyn Davis' Benefit Concert At The Town Hall, Sunday, September 29th, 2013, Reviewed
Folk isn’t the most exciting of visual life forms and though Willie Watson was a revelation, I still didn’t learn much from the proceedings. Except that the Folk music revival has stalled and that Tom Paxton wasn’t there, is awesome, and I plan to catch him next time he plays.