Jack White Stories

Jack White Defends Tidal, Shares Poem Titled "Music Is Sacred"

Jack White has made headlines this week defending Tidal, the streaming service created by Jay Z of which White is a partial owner. Now, White has shared a supposedly unrelated poem titled Music Is Sacred.White posted an online Q&A regarding Tidal to Third Man Records website earlier this week, defending the streaming...

VIDEO: Watch Jack White's Final Acoustic Concert In Full

On Sunday, Jack White performed his final concert before taking an indefinite hiatus from touring. The final show of his all-acoustic tour, which took place in the five states he had yet to perform, occurred in Fargo, North Dakota.The 14-song set streamed through TIDAL, of which Jack White is a partial owner, and featured...

Jack White Won't Perform Live "For A Long Time" After Short Acoustic Tour

After an extensive tour following the release of last year'sLazaretto, Jack White has announced a "break from performing live for a long period of time" via his website.In typical fashion, White will go into hiatus in a unique way, performing five entirely acoustic sets in the five states he has yet to perform. While...

Watch Robert Plant Join Jack White For "The Lemon Song" In Argentina

Though Jack White has occasionally covered Led Zeppelins The Lemon Song on the Lazaretto tour, he offered a special performance featuring Robert Plant on vocals at Lollapalooza Argentina.As one could expect, the songs energy couldnt be higher, with Whites band offering a massive reinforcement of the tracks classic riff. Plants vocals still sound outstanding,...

Jack White Bought Elvis Presley's First Recording For $300,000, Plans Reissue

Earlier this year, Elvis Presleys first recording, an acetate disc from 1953, was sold to an anonymous bidder for $300,000 at an auction.As it turns out, Jack White was the undisclosed bidder, and intends to reissue the single on Record Store Day through Third Man Records, according to Billboard.Fans of Elvis have long known of...

Watch Jack White's Interactive Music Video For That Black Bat Licorice

 Between the intricate deluxe vinyl pressing of Lazaretto and the intense sets from the albums tour, Jack Whites past year has been steeped in excess. In a continuation of this trend, the blues rocker recently released a three-part interactive music video for That Black Bat Licorice.The video allows viewers to toggle through three...

Alex's Top 150 Albums Of 2014

Frequent contributor Alex Wood has assembled his list of the top 150 albums of the year.1. Jack White- LazarettoLazaretto is an instant classic, an album that successfully combines the sounds of Jack Whites past work and influences to create something wholly his own. A record free of crazy effects and using no compression in the production...

How Fast Are Vinyl Album Sales Growing? A Graph

Vinyl has made an obvious comeback in recent years, and sales of vinyl LPs are up 49% this year, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal.Despite the steady increase in sales, few are investing in the industry and factories responsible for the pressing of old-fashioned vinyl records are struggling to meet demand....

Jack White Covers Bandmate on "Parallel" B-Side

Jack White recently released a cover of Dean Fertitas Parallel as the B-side to Lazaretto single Would You Fight For My Love?A longtime collaborator with White, Fertita plays lead guitar in The Dead Weather and toured with The Raconteurs. He is also currently member of Queens Of The Stone Age.Parallel was originally released...

Listen: Jack White's Same Day Studio-To-Store Singleā€¦ "Lazaretto"

Call it a stunt, call it genius, call it whatever but Jack White promised, and delivered, the world's fastest recording to vinyl pressing to distribution timeline in celebration of Record Store Day 2014.He performed the tune in front of a small gathering of fans at Third Man Records, pressed the acetate and delivered the product...