Jack White colaborara como productor para la icono del Rockabilly Wanda Jackson, AKA LA REINA DEL ROCKABILLY, ya que declaro que viajara a Nashville para entrara a los estudios del lider de bandas como lo White Stripes, Raconteurs y su mas reciente proyecto Dead Weather.

Wanda declaro “Es una de las estrellas mas grande en estos momentos”, en Oklahoma, ya que muchos conocian la etapa de musico de Jack, pero pocos saben de su etapa como productor, de hecho se rumora que sera el quien se encargue de la nueva produccion de los Rolling Stones.

Y si no saben quien es Wanda Jackson ha estado grabando discos por los ultimos 50 años, era pareja del rey Elvis e incluso salio de gira con el. Via THE GUARDIAN

One of my favorite things to do in the 21st century is burn CDs for people. Partly, it is the narcissistic belief that I listen to cooler music than anyone else on earth (Not true! My friends constantly surprise and delight me with new and wonderful music I have never heard before.)

Anywhatthehellhappenedtonapster, I made a CD for a friend and I’ve pretty much been listening to it on repeat for a week or so. (Eventually, I will give her the CD – just.not.yet.)

So I wanted to share it with yalls tonight because obviously, in my infinite wisdom narcissism, I have chosen songs that are ideal for a nice, leisurely jog in the park. Some of them are new, and some are pretty old, but all of them are awesome.

My morning jacket – one big holiday (live)
elbow – the bones of you
matisyahu – one day
Del tha funkee homosapien feat. dinosaur jr. – missing link
Toots & the Maytals – Take me home, country road
Devotchka – queen of the surface streets
Wilco – Jesus, Etc.
Jimmy eat world – bleed american
Raconteurs – steady as she goes
Them crooked vultures – mind eraser, no chaser
The Shins – Phantom Limb
Deadboy & the Elephantmen – Stop, I’m already dead
dangermouse & jemini – ghetto pop life
Dropkick Murphys – Shipping up to Boston
Them crooked vultures – new fang
social d – dear lover
XTC – Dear God
de la soul, teenage fanclub – Fallin’

I go through phases – sometimes I’ll go for weeks on end listening to nothing but death metal, then I’ll listen to ambient/electronic. Then bluegrass. This week, I appear to be on an alt rock kick.

Pay special attention to Them Crooked Vultures – Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die says this band just might save rock n roll…

I think he’s right.

Q&A with Raconteur Brendan Benson for all 37 Metromix sites. Interview went great once Benson got situated but it took a bit of struggling. Here’s the inside baseball part of my introduction, which, understandably, got cut:

The singer-songwriter talked about making his latest release, The Raconteurs, recording with The Stooges and an upcoming album with country singer Ashley Monroe just as he arrived at a tour stop in Germany.

“I’m just getting out of a car now,” hold on a second,” Benson says as he arrives at the Magnet Club in Berlin. “All right, I have to get somewhere quiet … So I think this is quiet enough.”

The interview begins with a question about last night in Amsterdam. His bandmates partied while he stayed in and nursed a cold. Soft spoken, choosing each word carefully, kind of shy while speaking with me, Benson suddenly sounds brusque.

“Hey guys, where’s the backstage?” he inquires. “Sorry, Wade, it’s getting loud in here, man. It’s just fucking…this is retarded. I just got to the venue and I’m trying to find a quiet spot…Bear with me here a second.”

Benson asks two more people for directions, politely greets a gushing staffer and then we continue. The phone connection breaks up on a few, brief occasions but no more interruptions.

Continue reading.

Or for a shorter version that ran in the Indianapolis Star.

While actress Milla Jovovich may be trying to draw in your attention with talk of extraterrestrial owls and an imminent fear of the fourth kind, there’s a phenomenon that has been slowly gaining momentum in the music world….

Bands and musicians have been switching members and pairing up like Xenon Octa-Flouride (XeF8) would, if it ever is going to be invented (thanks Wikipedia!). In layman’s terms, we’ve been getting a lot of new supergroups, side projects, and collaborations – some that could have been foreseen, and others that seem to have appeared out of nowhere.

The Almanac Singers seen here with Bess Hawes, Arthur Stern and Sis Cunningham

Now, the idea of a supergroup is not a recent innovation by any stretch of the imagination – the supergroup goes all the way back to the Almanac Singers - a combination of Millard Lampell, Lee Hayes, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie that got its start in 1940. From the 60’s until today, we have been given plenty more supergroups, such as in 1969 which brought us both The Plastic Ono Band (which included the likes of Eric Clapton, both George Harrison and Ringo Starr, Keith Moon and Alan White – just to name a few) as well as Blind Faith (which also featured Mr. Clapton, but had Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech to boot). 1988 brought us the Traveling Wilburys, which was the tour de force of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. And although they Wilburys only stuck together for about a year after Orbison’s death, that cosmic aligning is something that has not met it’s match… yet.

The Monsters of Folk

Among the recent crop of supergroups is a group I mentioned last week – The Monsters of Folk, which consists of folk songsters Connor Oberst and  Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes, M. Ward of She & Him, and Jim James from My Morning Jacket. They’ve been associated under the Monsters name since 2004, but have all been so busy with their respective main attractions that they weren’t able to release their self-titled first album until this year. You’ve definitely heard their track “Say Please” on the Peak – and both M. Ward and Connor Oberst gave free concerts in NYC this summer!

Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar

Moving down the line from most folky to least, next up is the recent pairing of Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard with Jay Farrar, member of Uncle Tupelo and frontman for Son Volt, the two bands that he played with throughout the 90’s before he launched his solo career in 2001. Gibbard and Farrar first got together in 2007 to record the soundtrack for One Fast Move and I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur. Both the movie and the album came out on October 20th, the day before the 40th anniversary of the prolific author’s death. You can see the music video for “San Fransisco”, the last track on the album, here. And you can expect to see more from them in the future.

Taking a detour into the realm of electronica, at the end of September, Thom Yorke, the lead singer of Radiohead, slipped this little surprise into his blog:

Thom Yorke and Flea

Of course, those shows were sold out in 20 minutes. Flea, as you know, is the Red Hot Chili Peppers Bassist – and he seemed to be ecstatic to be on stage with Yorke, playing cuts from Yorke’s solo album The Eraser (2006). There hasn’t been a follow-up to the October concerts, but that’s something you should keep an eye out for as well.

Jack White and Alison Mosshart sharing the mike at Glastonbury this year

Next up come two really driving groups. First is The Dead Weather, whose song “Hang You Up From the Heavens” I featured in my first week of blog-writing. The Dead Weather was formed by Jack White who’s been extremely active – leaping from the White Stripes, to the Raconteurs, to the recent release of “It Might Get Loud” – a documentary featuring White, The Edge, and Jimmy Page. The band also features Alison Mosshart of the Kills on lead vocals, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age and Jack Lawrence, who played with White in the Raconteurs. And to sweeten the deal, they just announced a show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on November 17th! Tickets for that are going on Sale this friday, so get ‘em quick.

The "Them Crooked Vultures" teaser photo from earlier this fall

And finally, we come to Them Crooked Vultures, or TCV as they call themselves. TCV is big news. On drums is Dave Grohl, from Nirvana and the Foo Fighters. On vocals and guitar is Josh Homme, from the Queens of the Stone Age. The kicker is that John Paul Jones comes soaring in on bass. They’ve got a really great sound, full and rocking, but what remains to be seen is whether TCV will be able to stay afloat once their star power has worn off. Their self-titled first record is due out on Sony in a week, which should be an insta-grab for all hard rock fans. But for now, check out the full album on the band’s website!

So, I apologize about all the name dropping – it’s not something I routinely do. If you think a supergroup has been left out, please let me know. Or if you feel the need to justify the Tinted Windows‘ existence, by all means, please try. But if you do, I’ll kindly remind you that their lead singer is from Hanson, and we’ll go our separate ways. Wikipedia to the rescue once again!

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Peak Keyword: MMBOP

Hello once again good people of blogworld. I felt that it was about time I posted again as it’s been nearly a month, my excuse if you’re interested is that I started a new job just about a month ago and I have been just a little busy. But enough of that and on with the post!

Have you read in the press about the celebrations accompanying the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall? I can’t believe that it was 20 years ago, can you? Anyway part of the celebrations involved a concert near the site of the old east-west barrier which included a twenty minute set from U2. The whole shebang was promoted and I believe set up by MTV. I assume that they have some highly paid and highly skilled PR people working for them. Highly paid maybe but highly skilled I doubt very much. Why do I draw this conclusion? Well largely because in their infinite wisdom MTV decided to ensure that the 10,000 ticket holders were going to be the only people that would see the stage. How did they do this? Well they built a wall of course! Did no one see the irony in this? Many German Radio Stations with tickets to give away in competitions sent them back in protest and I must say that I don’t blame them. You can read about it here

Even the combined weight of the giant members of U2 couldn't crush MTV's Berlin Wall

It’s been a while since I last posted any criticism of the banking industry, but now those poor impoverished bankers (apologies I should have started that with a W rather than a B shouldn’t I?) are getting close to their bonus levels of old the time is surely ripe. What I will never understand is how a bunch of people who came close to destroying the whole industry and have caused serious damage to the world economy should be paid any form of bonus? What the f*ck is that all about. Anyway if that wasn’t bad enough it has been brought to my attention that Wall Street Banks Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley have bullied their way to the front of the queue for the swine flu vaccine H1N1. At the same time many health care workers, pregnant women and people at risk are still waiting. Click here to read the story. It used to be said that in the event of a nuclear catastrophe in the world the creatures that would survive and thrive in post apocalyptic times would be rats and cockroaches. I believe that is still essentially true, however I think that bankers should also be added to that list although perhaps they are just rats and cockroaches already! What do you think? OK as I have said many times before that this is essentially a music blog so let me bring so music into it, something relevant to the story of course.

“Rat In Mi Kitchen” – UB40. The band bought their first instruments with £4,000 compensation that former lead singer Ali Campbell received from injuries he received in a bar fight as a 17-year-old. Compensation people, not a bonus ok!

“Reward” – Teardrop Explodes. One of the bands early singles was “Bouncing Babies” which actually had its own tribute song released by the Freshies, “I Can’t Get Bouncing Babies By The Teardrop Explodes“

A banker with swine flu.........'nuff said!

Another story in yesterdays newspaper was about yet another failure in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Cerne. It has just been returned to service after nearly a year out of action and £23 million of repairs following a serious electrical fault in September 2008. The LHC in simple terms is trying to recreate conditions that existed just before the Big Bang that created the universe billions of years ago. The search for the elusive ‘god particle’ was stopped this time by another power cut. How was this caused? Well when an LHC support worker found the source of the outage he found a piece of bread being eaten by a bird! I wonder if the bread was the remains of an LHC workers lunch or was it manna from heaven? I thought I’d include the last comment to placate any creationists that might be reading this, you’re wrong but at least I placated you! You can read the Guardian’s article on this incident by clicking here. I must add that this is also one of the headlines of the year too! Big Bang Goes Phut As Bird Drops Baguette Into Cern Machinery!

This time those boffins at the large hadron collider in Cern had made sure that their plans for a big bang would not be upset by some bird brained idea. Crustice had to be seen to be done

“Danger High Voltage” – Electric Six. A rather excellent song and listen out for the counter point vocal from none other than Jack White off of the White Stripes, Raconteurs and Dead Weather

And finally I simply have to mention ITV’s X Factor, sadly I have been hooked beyond the point where all the no hopers have gone (well except for john and Edward, although more about them later). Finally this week John and Edward (or Jedward as the tabloids have christened them) made it into the bottom two this weekend. I would have expected Simon Cowell to use his casting vote to cast them out, but he chose to put it to the public vote which meant that Lucie Jones leaves the show. I never have had any respect for Louis Walsh but I used to maintain a degree of respect for Mr Cowell. However that has completely gone now. Given the opportunity to rid us of Jedward he copped out, or did he simply want to get rid of the act most likely to beat one of the acts he is mentoring. At this point I really hope that Jedward win the competition, not because I think that they have any talent or deserve to win, but simply because that would mean Mr Cowell would have to give these two walking toilet brushes a £1 million recording contract. Perhaps that would finally kill off awful TV shows like X Factor. Big Brother is dead now let’s kill the X Factor!

John and Edward

Two toilet brushes

Den hyperaktive vidunderdreng Jack Whites nyeste projekt, The Dead Weather, lyder stilmæssigt som det uægte barn af et beskidt møde i en dunkel baggård mellem hans foregående to bands, The White Stripes og The Raconteurs. Med genistregen Horehound har White og hans nye ensemble begået en af årets plader, lige dele avantgarde og retro.

I aften indtog The Dead Weather så et euforisk Vega og leverede en vital og aldeles brillant koncert, der stadig runger i mine øregange her et par timer senere og vil få en prominent plads på mindernes indre amagerhylde i lang tid fremover.

Bandets såvel fandenivoldske som kokette bastionsfigur, Alison Mosshart (The Kills), udstråler en vild naturkraft, der står i skarp kontrast til hendes mere kølige, flegmatiske bordherrer, guitaristen Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) og bassisten Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs). White selv befinder sig på blæret vis bag trommerne, men holdt sig naturligvis ikke for god til at gribe guitaren og træde frem på scenen et par gange til salens øredøvende begejstring. Således sluttede White og Mosshart sit ordinære sæt af i duet fremme ved mikrofonen med den sumpede ’Will There Be Enough Water?’

Det var en koncert efter alle rockkunstens regler, der manifesterede White som en særlig og utæmmelig begavelse, hvis forkærlighed for det analoge udtryk man kun kan have uanet respekt for i disse så digitalt forhippede tider. Dertil kommer, at han fremstår såre sympatisk og oprigtig, hvilket gør, at man tror ham, når han takkede af med ordene:

”See you again soon. God bless!”

sorry guys I’ve been majorly busy and haven’t been keeping up with my 90210 / Melrose series I promised you. That said, 90210 has really been kicked Melrose’s butt with its musical choices so I’m just gonna give you some of my favorite cuts from the past few eps. Oh and hope you enjoy the photo of Trevor Donovan. He plays Teddy on the show and while his character isn’t overtly interesting he is nice to look at. I guess every show needs their Nate Archibald.

Big Heavy – Amanda Blank
Many Shades of Black – Adele & The Raconteurs
Nobody – Kate Earl | (Live Acoustic Version)
Yea Yeah – Matt and Kim | (Flosstradamus Remix)
Hold the Line – Major Lazer feat. Mr. Lex and Santigold
People – Chester French
Chillin’ – Wale feat. Lady Gaga | (Wideboys Remix)
Never Forget You – Noisettes
Zero (RAC Remix) – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

ps. I love me some RAC. More on that later.

I’m working on my "Best Albums of the 2000’s" to be posted soon. A Top 10 seemed too limiting, so I was gonna do 20. Looks like it’s gonna end up being a Top 50. It’s tough being a music nerd. In the meantime, here’s what Jack White has done this decade. What’s up with 2002? What a slacker!!

2000: The White Stripes, De Stijl
2001: The White Stripes, White Blood Cells; White founds Third Man Records
2003: The White Stripes, Elephant; White contributes to Cold Mountain soundtrack and appears in the film
2004: White produces and performs on Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose
2005: The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan
2006: The Raconteurs, Broken Boy Soldiers
2007: The White Stripes, Icky Thump
2008: The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely; White records “Another Way to Die” with Alicia Keys for Bond flick Quantum of Solace
2009: The Dead Weather, Horehound; White Stripes tour film Under the Great White Northern Lights premieres at Toronto Film Festival; White stars in guitar love-note doc It Might Get Loud with Jimmy Page and U2’s The Edge

Last Saturday one of the cashiers at Amoeba Records on Sunset told me about this new movie called It Might Get Loud featuring Jack White (The White Stripes, Raconteurs), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) and The Edge (U2)

Supposedly it’s about them sitting around together talking about guitars and how they developed their unique sound/styles. I can’t wait to see this. Here’s the trailer:

AFG Must Rock!
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Saying you  don’t particularly ‘ get’ The White Stripes usually elicits the same  sort of incredulity and anger normally reserved for somebody who decides to drop their  trousers and shout “Hallelujah!” whilst receiving Holy Communion at church on Sunday.  But the truth is I never really had much time for The White Stripes, Ok so “Hotel Yorba” had a certain rough-hewn rustic knock about charm, but for some reason they reminded me of  Timbuk 3 (anyone remember them! ) and I never quite managed to sever that ludicrous mental connection. As the popular music press salivated over each new White Stripes release I would offer the same indifferent shrug I normally reserved for the latest Foo Fighters tune. After hearing Mr White’s rather woefully misjudged James Bond /Alicia Keys rock-warble hybrid I felt a shameful sense of schadenfreude “not quite the godhead you’re often made out to be eh Jacky boy ?” I thought. However despite my resistance to all things JW I could appreciate that he is an amazing, innovative guitarist but I believed that the premature anointing of Mr W as some sort of musical deity was somewhat over the top, but hey, ho, I didn’t lose much sleep over it and I’m damn sure Jack didn’t, – I didn’t dislike The White Stripes they just kinda washed over me and I concluded that some bands you just don’t ‘get’. And so The White Stripes existed -I didn’t bother them, they didn’t bother me, everybody was happy. Then along came The Raconteurs, and I admit I was initially seduced by ‘Steady As She Goes’ and we briefly held hands but when I listened to the full album I realised we were never likely to consummate our musical relationship and so it seemed that another Jack White project was  to pass me by … I must admit I did feel I was missing out, but couldn’t quite work out how or in what sense??…..

But now Jacks really gone and upset my apple cart …he’s only gone and produced a sleazy slice of rock n’ roll that even I could not fail to be moved by.  His latest single  “I  Cut Like a Buffalo” from yet another of his ever expanding side projects, The Dead Weather, is the song that really changed everything for me,  it became a musical jemmy that opened a mind that was seemingly forever hermetically sealed to  all things Jack White… after  listening to this track everything slowly started  fall in to place, suddenly I started to “get” the Dead Weather and it proved “I don’t know Jack!”

Alongside Jack, The Dead Weather’s dirge rock is the product of Dean Fertita (Queens Of The Stone Age),  “Little” Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes) and Alison Mosshart (The Kills)  “I Cut Like  Buaffalo” is their latest musical calling card from  their debut album  ‘Horehound’. It’s a track which perfectly captures their gritty rock & dirty blues sound. It’s a dark, organ grinding number containing a Stranglers inspired intro which fuses “Peaches” with “Hanging Around” before  crossing over into Clash territory whilst managing to  retain that whiskey sodden blues quality that sounds utterly authentic, natural  and completely uncontrived. Apparently The Dead Weather formed as the result of a Raconteurs jam session and it kind of has that rough and ready vibe, a raw untreated feel, like it was recorded in a New Orleans crack house on Halloween.  Visceral guitars and juddering beats circle Jack and Alison’s vocals like a pack of hungry wolves as he snarls “Is that you chokin’?/ Or are you just jokin’? I’ve no idea what “Cuts Like A Buffalo” actually means, some say it’s a euphemism for death, others that it’s a slightly unpleasant term for bleeding during sexual congress(nice), but I prefer to think of it as somebody who is thick-skinned -difficult to upset, hurt, or insult-tough, a bit like Mr T.  It’s a tune that has been playing around in my head for weeks, and is a song destined to one day join the canonised classics. It may well also be the catalyst which inspires me to revisit the White Stripes in the hope that the penny will finally drop …..8/10

Graffiti Graphics- Patrick Von Pip

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Jack White gosta de trabalhar muito e de trabalhar rápido. Eis como funciona com os White Stripes: duas semanas em estúdio e sai um disco. Eis como funciona com os Raconteurs, a super banda que montou com Brendan Benson e dois Greenhornes: um ensaio, um primeiro single, e, uns quantos encontros em estúdio mais tarde, um álbum. Em 2007, entrevistado pela britânica “Paste Magazine” após o lançamento de “Icky Thump”, o último dos White Stripes, suspirava: “Findos estão os dias em que entravas no estúdio e tinhas tudo preparado. Ligavas o gravador e tinhas uma faixa. Alguns dos melhores discos alguma vez criados foram feitos nessas circunstâncias. É quase caso para dizer, para que precisamos de toda esta artilharia [moderna]?”.

White é um romântico conservador. Preza a importância do momento no impulso criativo e defende a restrição de meios como forma de capturar um sentido de verdade que, considera, as distracções de grandes estúdios e tecnologia de ponta tendem a ocultar. A ideia do músico gravando contínua e consistentemente, do músico como andarilho que usa os álbuns como forma de partir em viagem, de cidade em cidade, de palco em palco, é essencial para o percebermos. Principalmente agora, quando parece entrar numa imparável espiral de actividade.

E assim nasceram os Dead Weather

Falámos acima dos Raconteurs, banda paralela de White que começou por ser vista como brincadeira de tempos livres mas que, neste momento, já ganhou lugar no cenário rock’n'roll: o público já não compra um disco dos Raconteurs, ou um bilhete para um dos seus concertos, por serem a banda do tipo dos White Stripes, compram-nos pela música onde convivem Led Zeppelin e devaneios prog de bom gosto, onde se ouvem explosões blues-rock e a sensibilidade de cantautor de Brendan Benson. Pois bem, dos Raconteurs nasceu mais um projecto paralelo para White. Chamam-se Dead Weather, têm Alison Mosshart, dos Kills, como vocalista e Jack White, muitos anos depois, na posição de baterista (em Detroit, antes de abraçar definitivamente a guitarra, fora homem das baquetas). Completam a banda Jack Lawrence, o baixista dos Raconteurs, e Dean Fertita, guitarrista dos Queens Of The Stone Age que acompanha os Raconteurs em palco. A nova banda, contudo, é só o início.

Em entrevista à revista nova-iorquina “Self-Titled”, Jack White falou, obviamente, dos Dead Weather e do seu nascimento improvisado. Falou também de outras coisas. Agora que montou as instalações da sua Third Man Records em Nashville, a cidade para onde se mudou há anos, não quer parar um segundo. Está a produzir duas cantoras, Rachelle Garniez e Mildrer, a preparar quarenta canções para um filme dos White Stripes, sobre o qual nada se sabe em concreto e a congeminar intervenções artísticas centradas no estúdio que é também laboratório fotográfico, atelier de design, loja de discos e uma pequena sala de concertos. “Queria reunir tudo”, explicou à Self-Titled: “Merchandise e o trabalho de arte dos discos, as fotos elas mesmas, uma câmara escura. Estamos a fazer tudo o que podemos ali. E depois temos o estúdio num edifício à parte para gravar. É óptimo, tão inclusivo em todo o processo criativo”. Os Dead Weather nasceram ali, na sua micro-Disneylândia rock’n'roll – ou melhor, concretizaram-se ali.

Tudo começou com um azar e a necessidade de improvisar para o ultrapassar. Na ponta final da última digressão dos Raconteurs, Jack White cansara demasiado a voz e não conseguia cantar. Além disso, efeitos secundários do rock’n'roll, deslocara uma vértebra do pescoço. O normal seria cancelar os cinco concertos que restavam e convalescer em casa. Não para White: “Íamos tocar no Ryman Auditorium [em Nashville], e nunca tinha actuado lá com uma banda minha. Tinha que o fazer”. Conhecendo o apreço de Jack White pela história e pelo peso da história, compreendemo-lo. O Ryman Auditorium é uma sala histórica para a country, um espaço por onde passaram Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Elvis Presley ou Patsy Cline, e onde Johnny Cash, entre 1969 e 1971, montou o seu histórico programa televisivo – mais recentemente, foi ali que Jonathan Demme filmou “Heart Of Gold”, o filme-concerto de 2006 com Neil Young. Jack White, naturalmente, tinha de passar por ali.

Para que tal fosse possível, os Raconteurs criaram um alinhamento composto, na sua maioria, pelas canções cantadas por Brendan Benson e pediram ajuda à banda que os acompanhava em digressão, os Kills. Alison Mosshart, a vocalista longilínea, mui “heroin chic”, acedeu imediatamente. Gastou também ela a voz nos concertos que sobravam e, no tempo que demorava a viagem entre Atlanta, cidade onde foi dado o último concerto, e Nashville, para onde se deslocou novamente a trupe toda, nasciam os Dead Weather.

E, depois disto tudo, há o tal filme inesperadamente anunciado. À “Self-Titled”, Jack White declarou que chegará durante 2009 e, sem revelar do que se trata, disse apenas que o próximo passo seria misturar toda a música incluída no projecto – “são cerca de 40 canções, por isso vai custar-me uma série de tempo”. Provavelmente, o tempo que lhe demoraria montar, gravar e editar uma banda paralela aos Dead Weather – que são paralelos aos Raconteurs, que são paralelos aos White Stripes.

in Ípsilon, por Mário Lopes

Hey everybody! I am just cooking with these reviews lately! It’s insane! or is it just inane? I guess we’ll never know for sure! But one fact remains, and that is that if music be the food of love, then play on! Because love is VERY hungry right now, and it needs to gorge on a huge heaping platter of music, deep fried in a harmonic batter, drizzled with melody, double-dipped in a chorus of voices, served hot and fresh. Dig in!

Among The Oak & Ash – Among The Oak & Ash – ***1/2 – An album of folk songs sung by Garrison Starr and Glen Phillips, two of my favorite vocalists. And they add a certain energy to these songs, so it’s not your standard folk sound, but stays very respectful to the originals and makes it very engaging and interesting.

The Duckworth Lewis Method – The Duckworth Lewis Method – ***1/2 – A cool collection of songs from Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy) and Thomas Walsh (Pugwash) all about Cricket. But don’t let that stop you, these are just fun, cool songs. Some are old-timey, some very poppy, all great and melodic, check it out!

David Bazan – Curse Your Branches – *** – David Bazan does a great job of combining his unique vision of music, with his introspective lyrics. And it’s something you don’t get out of a lot of artists. This, his first “solo” release, seems to be even more open than Pedro the Lion stuff, though that’s only a half-step for Bazan, never shy from speaking his mind.

Brendan Benson – My Old, Familiar Friend – **** – I love Brendan Benson. There, I said it. Got a problem? OK, good then. Now that we understand each other, I love this album. After that short detour with the Raconteurs, it’s nice to hear Benson back with all the power-pop bells and whistles still on. Fun, engaging, and delicious!

Cheap Star – Speaking Like An Elephant – ***1/2 – Great power pop ala Big Star, Posies, etc. Great stuff! Stands tall among their influences to make a nice collection of songs. I can only see them getting better.

Hey everybody! I am just cooking with these reviews lately! It’s insane! or is it just inane? I guess we’ll never know for sure! But one fact remains, and that is that if music be the food of love, then play on! Because love is VERY hungry right now, and it needs to gorge on a huge heaping platter of music, deep fried in a harmonic batter, drizzled with melody, double-dipped in a chorus of voices, served hot and fresh. Dig in!

Among The Oak & Ash – Among The Oak & Ash – ***1/2 – An album of folk songs sung by Garrison Starr and Glen Phillips, two of my favorite vocalists. And they add a certain energy to these songs, so it’s not your standard folk sound, but stays very respectful to the originals and makes it very engaging and interesting.

The Duckworth Lewis Method – The Duckworth Lewis Method – ***1/2 – A cool collection of songs from Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy) and Thomas Walsh (Pugwash) all about Cricket. But don’t let that stop you, these are just fun, cool songs. Some are old-timey, some very poppy, all great and melodic, check it out!

David Bazan – Curse Your Branches – *** – David Bazan does a great job of combining his unique vision of music, with his introspective lyrics. And it’s something you don’t get out of a lot of artists. This, his first “solo” release, seems to be even more open than Pedro the Lion stuff, though that’s only a half-step for Bazan, never shy from speaking his mind.

Brendan Benson – My Old, Familiar Friend – **** – I love Brendan Benson. There, I said it. Got a problem? OK, good then. Now that we understand each other, I love this album. After that short detour with the Raconteurs, it’s nice to hear Benson back with all the power-pop bells and whistles still on. Fun, engaging, and delicious!

Cheap Star – Speaking Like An Elephant – ***1/2 – Great power pop ala Big Star, Posies, etc. Great stuff! Stands tall among their influences to make a nice collection of songs. I can only see them getting better.

Versões de músicas da primeira sessão de gravação do White Stripes vão ser liberadas! As faixas serão colocadas para download no site The Vault, serviço online do selo Third Man, que pertence a Jack White, vocalista e guitarrista.

Poderão ser baixadas versões alternativas do single “Let’s Shake Hands”, primeiro do duo de indie rock, gravado em 1998, e a canção “Look Me Over Closely”, que seria o lado B.

Agora vem a pegada: as raridades estarão disponíveis apenas para assinantes do site, claro. Mas eles também receberão o álbum “The Raconteurs, Live in London” em vinil e um poster do grupo The Dead Weather, a mais nova banda de rock de Jack e que conta com a vocalista do The Kills.

A assinatura também dará direito a outros áudios, vídeos e vendas antecipadas. Interessou? Então corra, pois só ganha essas coisas quem se registrar para o The Vault até o dia 22.

This is one of the best things that has ever happened.

I was reminded of it when I heard the original version of the Gnarls Barkley song this morning on the way to work.  I’ve seen the Raconteurs twice, both of which were mesmerizing, soul-shaking performances, but I didn’t get this performance in either one.  Not sure I could have handled it.

The original is funky and awesome, and it will always remind me of my first summer here in Nashville.  It played in every public place I walked into, from Fido to just about any department store, and there was always someone (not counting me) singing along.

This, though?  This is rock and roll lustmagic.

Here are some random albums we highly recommend for anyone in need of some tunes to jam out to. Yeah, some are live albums and that doesn’t really count, but whatever, they’re still good.

• Consolers of the Lonely- The Raconteurs *This is probably the best album to come out in 2008. It will blow you away.
• In Rainbows- Radiohead *Just continuing their tradition of producing one amazing album after another.
• Cage the Elephant- Cage the Elephant *Really solid, catchy rock album with some indie influence.
• The Colour and The Shape- Foo Fighters *The sophomore album from the Foos has something for everyone. It rocks pretty hard. Plus, Dave Grohl is the man.
• Good News For People Who Love Bad News- Modest Mouse *Great weird alternative rock.
• AC/DC Live- AC/DC *It will melt your face.
• Everyday Demons & Never Too Late EP- The Answer *Again, get a face-bucket. Hard rock with some blues influence.
• Rockin’ the Suburbs- Ben Folds *Really great album. Piano reinvented as a rock instrument.
• Live at House of Blues, New Orleans- Better Than Ezra *Simply awesome.
• Where the Songs Come From- Chuck E. Costa *Masterful singer/songwriter.
• Manners- Passion Pit *Really well done indie-electronica stuff.
• Across a Wire: Live in NYC- Counting Crows *Way different from studio versions.
• Drunken Lullabies- Flogging Molly *Fun music to drink and pretend to be Irish to. Especially appropriate around St. Patty’s Day.
• Feed the Animals- Girl Talk *It’ll make you wish you were more badass…and a better dancer.
• Jaydiohead- Minty Fresh Productions *Sick mash-up of Jay-Z & Radiohead.
• How the West was Won- Led Zeppelin *It’s a journey. Best band ever.
• Lucero- Lucero *Bluesy southern rock. Great for if your girl just stole your car and your dog.
• And You Were a Crow- The Parlor Mob *Awesome rock band out of central NJ.
• The Pick of Destiny- Tenacious D *Surprisingly well-done rock album. Also hilarious.
• Third Eye Blind- Third Eye Blind *I don’t care what anyone says,this album still holds its own. Spent countless hours rocking out to this in 7th grade.
• Pinkerton- Weezer *Woooo.

Any one of these albums can definitely be played from start to finish without disappointment, so if you’re looking for good tunes and you haven’t heard of something on this list, give it a try. You won’t be disappointed.

My son invited me to see the movie ‘It Might Get Loud’, a documentary about the electric guitar. Three rock guitarists are featured, Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White. I was very familiar with the first two and their work in the bands Led Zeppelin and U2 and have copies of most their albums in my music collection. My exposure to Jack White was only knowing of his association with the White Stripes, a band I hadn’t ever connected with and in fact, actually avoided.

The White Stripes is a duo made up of White playing a cheap plastic guitar purchased decades ago from Montgomery Wards and his older sister drafted to sit behind a small drum kit. I’d previously dismissed their music after not much consideration as yet another gimmick thrown together by some industry executive to sell some records.

This isn’t about the White Stripes or any of those guys in the movie.

This is about how realizing the genius of art requires the viewer/listener to be a willing participant in the exchange. It’s about how the older one gets the more we tend to shut down the unfamiliar, to get into an ever narrowing rut of  purposefully limiting our range of experiences. When we do that to ourselves we end up missing a lot. A lot of genius.

In the film, someone talks about finding yourself standing in a managed forest surrounded by trees, seemingly placed at random. Only after moving will you suddenly realize that they’re all planted in precise rows. By simply stepping a few feet in a different direction, the truth is instantly revealed and it completely changes your perspective.

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions from ‘It Might Get Loud’  (an excellent film by the way) and won’t attempt to re-write Jack Whites biography here, but suffice to say my original impressions about White were completely wrong. The musical journey I’ve taken in the few days since making that realization has been very, very rewarding.

A few of us have been waiting impatiently for the movie, It Might Get Loud, ever since we saw the trailer.  If you haven’t heard about this and you’re a guitar player or a musician, listen to this!

The whole concept is about bringing three people in to talk about the guitar, songwriting, and the development of their style.  That sounds somewhat cool, but when those three people are Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White, you can understand the excitement.

Anyways, we didn’t expect the movie to come here, but the fine folks at the community theatre (they play a ton of indie flicks, documentaries, etc..), brought it in for a week.  Let’s just say it was pretty damn good.

I wanted to talk a little bit about one aspect of the show where they talk about the art of creation. Edge described it as making your way through a cluttered forest, eventually you’ll get to a point where all the trees are lined up perfectly and the light shines in.  You can work on creating something that just isn’t working, but suddenly out of nowhere, something will come to you, and you’ve got it.

Creativity is a strange thing. The minute you try to control it and consciously call for it, it’s not there. You can encourage it to come out, but you can’t force it.  It has to flow at the right time after the inspiration hits. I think the work really comes after you’ve already got the raw song sketch.

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¿No es "Ironic" que Lourdes regresa cuando sale mi canción en Rock Band?

¡Hola gente! Estoy de vuelta y vengo con mucho ánimo. ¿Díganme, me extrañaron? Bueno pues yo sí los extrañé. Por si no lo sabían, fui víctima de “YLOD” así que estuve de luto por varias semanas. Terminé comprándome un PS3 Slim. Bajar todas mis canciones y DLC al nuevo PS3 tampoco ha sido tarea fácil pues mi conexión de Internet parece no ser el mejor del mundo, pero aquí estoy de vuelta y con muchas ganas de “rockear”.

Esta semana salen 9 canciones (DLC) para Rock Band. Las bandas son: Alanis Morissette, Electric Six, Flotbot y The Raconteurs. Empezaremos hablando de Alanis, original de Canadá y considerada como una de las artistas de mayor venta en la historia. Es canta-autora, actriz y productora. Nos trae esta semana dos de sus más conocidas canciones: Head Over Feet e Ironic. Ya había salido en RB2, You Ought to Know, todas del mismo disco.

Por otra parte la banda Electric Six nos trae: Dance Epidemic, Gay Bar, y la canción I Don Like You. Electric Six es una banda activa americana de rock alternivo conocida por su éxito Danger High Voltage, pero esta canción no está disponible en RB. Quién sabe, quizás más adelante estará disponible. A mí personalmente no me gustaron ninguna de sus canciones. Y que me dicen de Flotbot? Lo conocen? Otra banda americana de rock alternativo y hip-hop formada para el año 2000. La canción que nos traen es Handlebars, tampoco recomendada por mí. Por último tenemos The Raconteurs, la cual es otra banda americana nueva del 2005 y nueva en RB con 3 canciones: Many Shades of Black, Salute Your Solution y Steady as She Goes, siendo esta última canción la más conocida.

Mi recomendación: las dos canciones de Alanis Morisette. La dificultad mayor en ambas canciones se ve en la batería y en la parte vocal, pero se puede manejar dado que no son imposibles. Yo de seguro las compro. Si no tienen mucho dinero para gastar pues lo mejor es que guarden para octubre 20 que va a salir un paquete de 10 canciones de Queen y el álbum completo de Abbey Road ($16.99) para The Beatles Rock Band y esos sí hay que comprarlos. Y si les parece poco, en noviembre sale Lego Rock Band ($49.99) que también viene con tremendas bandas.

Bonus Track: te hace falta sacar el trofeo de Flawless Singing? Solo necesitas hacer 100% en una canción en modo experto y la mejor canción para hacer esto según los expertos es So Whatcha Want de Beastie Boys de RB2 porque la canción es como hablada. En mi casa funcionó con Testify de Rage Against the Machines. Suerte ahí!

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El juguete roto de Jack White

The Dead Weather, es el último juguete de Jack White, mientras se sigue olvidando de su mejor proyecto, The White Stripes. Jack White vuelve a formar otro supergrupo a parte de los aclamados Raconteurs. Para esta ocasión se ha reunido de la vocalista de The Kills, Alishon Mosshart, el bajista de los propios Raconteurs, Jack Lawrence y el guitarrista de Queens Of The Stone Age, Dean Fertita.

Rock fanganoso es lo que se encuentra “Horehound”, canciones que no destacan especialmente entre sí, todas suenan bastante igual y abusan de los momentos solo de guitarra interminable, el disco es aburrido, largo y sin ninguna otra para escucharlo salvo que aparece Jack White.

Nada más empezar a escuchar el disco lo primero que llama la atención son las guitarras, el disco está basado en ellas, pero no en las melodías que crean, parece haber un descontrol total en ellas, algo que puede ser muy divertido de tocar, pero no de escuchar. Básicamente las canciones quedan relegadas a un segundo plano.

The alliance of music and film is taken a bit for granted these days, but let’s be honest: The two are inseparable. Take, for example, this, this and this. And that’s with omitting the way-obvious scene in Say Anything where new-wave-kid John Cusack proudly blares Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” out of his ghettoblaster to woo his girl… something that no self-respecting new wave kid would have done, but we digress. (It’s not available online due to copyright restrictions, anyway.) The point is music and film are a match made in heaven, something Hollywood learned well in the ’80s and ’90s and that independent filmmakers have taken even further in the years since. 

The latest example is coming to the Moxie Cinema screens a week from this Friday. (In other words, 10/16.) It Might Get Loud takes the viewer into the minds, histories and influences of three of rock’s most prominent and influential guitarists: Jimmy Page of The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, The Edge of U2 and Jack White of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs. It’s a chance to see each player’s style turned inside-out as the three sit down together and reveal the secrets behind their respective sounds, a rare reveal to be sure. (For The Moxie’s full synopsis, including critical reviews, click here.) 

Intrigued? Want to see some of your rock ‘n’ roll heroes show you the tricks of their trade? Tickets are just $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and students and $6 for matinees… or you can watch our Twitter feed later this week and next for chances to win tickets for free. By the way, if you’re not already following us on The Twitters, now might be a good time to start.