Jack White News

Grammy Award winner John Paul White is premiering the video for “The Long Way Home,” the first single from his upcoming solo album The Hurting Kind, via Paste. Watch the video here and share it via YouTube here.

Los Angeles alternative band Charming Liars are ramping up for the release of their new 'Thought, Flesh and Bone' album on March 1st, 2019 with new single & video 'Time To Start'.  

Ferris & Sylvester have released the stunning video for their new single 'Sickness'. The video premiered with The Independent who said, “It opens with Issy Ferris's throaty, tremulous vocals and a Nashville twang on the electric guitar, before a harmony with Archie Sylvester bursts into life.”

Better Oblivion Community Center, the new band from Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst, recently surprise-released their self-titled debut album. The record is currently available digitally and is set for a physical release on February 22nd via Dead Oceans. To learn more about the origins of the LP, read an interview with Phoebe and Conor below.

Joe's Pub, a program and venue of The Public Theater, announces the new class of Joe's Pub Working Group (JPWG), the venue's artist development program dedicated to enhancing the career sustainability and growth of performing artists. Entering its fifth year, JPWG welcomes five artists performer and songwriter Migguel Anggelo, composter and vocalist Trevor Bachman, comedian and performance artist Becca Blackwell, jazz musician and composer Yacine Boulares, and singer-songwriter Treya Lam as the core group that represents the diversity and scope of the nightly programming at Joe's Pub.

U.K. rockers Band of Skulls' fifth album, Love Is All You Love (produced by Richard X), is set for release on April 12 via So Recordings. Love Is All You Love follows 2016's critically lauded By Default, for which Consequence of Sound proclaimed, “Band of Skulls rip and roar…Think a savage hybrid of Modest Mouse and Jack White,” while The Independent furthered, “…each song packs a punch…they've always had a certain swagger in their music but here you can really feel the authority and confidence.” Fans can pre-orderLove Is All You Love here: http://BoS.lnk.to/LoveIsAllYouLove.

The latest album from The Suitcase Junket, Mean Dog, Trampoline is populated by characters in various states of reverie: leaning on jukeboxes, loitering on dance floors, lying on the bottoms of empty swimming pools in the sun. Despite being deeply attuned to the chaos of the world, singer/songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist Matt Lorenz imbues those moments with joyful wonder, an endless infatuation with life's most subtle mysteries. And as its songs alight on everything from Joan Jett to moonshine to runaway kites, Mean Dog, Trampolinemakes an undeniable case for infinite curiosity as a potent antidote to jadedness and despair. 

Ferris & Sylvester have released their brand new single 'Sickness'. The blues/folk epic has launched with great support across the board. The single premiered with Clash and has also been featured as BBC Introducing's 'Upload Of The Week'.

Illiterate Light are set to release their debut EP, Sweet Beast, on January 18, and now share new video for single, “Two Cats' – watch via ThrdCoast. The Virginia duo of guitarist/vocalist Jeff Gorman and drummer/vocalist Jake Cochran are back on the road this month, currently supporting Rayland Baxter(dates below) along with confirming 2019 appearances at the SXSW Music Conference and Shaky Knees Festival.

 The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) has announced nominations for the 23rd Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and animation features. Winners will be honored at the 2019 Awards, themed "Landscape of the Imagination," on Saturday, February 2, 2019 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Today's announcement was made by Art Directors Guild President Nelson Coates, ADG, and Awards Producer Scott Moses, ADG.

Blue Note Hawaii is kicking off 2019 with some of music and comedy's biggest names. G. Love will get you in the partying mood, followed by two rounds of comedy with Patton Oswalt and Gary Owen. Swing kings Big Bad Voodoo Daddy return, Anthony David performs the music of Bill Withers and guitar phenom Jonny Lang performs for four nights. Singer-songwriter Joshua Radin makes his Blue Note debut. The Beach Boys' Al Jardine is sure to please crowds, '90s R&B supergroup All-4-One perform for three nights and John Sebastian from the Lovin' Spoonful will take you down memory lane. Local artists include Tim Rose in his "Aloha for Now" show, the incomparable Willie K, reggae artist Sister Nancy, the exciting Dae Han Quintet, local favorites Good Foot Hawaii and Punahou alum Willy Falk.

West Virginia born Country singer-songwriter Gethen Jenkins has just dropped his Gibson Guitar showroom session for his cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Simple Man'. Check out the performance video HERE. This is the second installment of Gethen's three part session with Gibson, following the release of 'The Long Black Veil' Lefty Frizzell cover, which can be viewed HERE.

Today, Us The Duo (husband-and-wife Michael and Carissa Alvarado) released an Amazon Original concert film Christmas - Live In LA, only available to stream on Prime Video. The concert was recorded during the winter of 2017 at the 1,600 capacity United Artists Theatre in Los Angeles, their largest sold out show to date, as the band released their Amazon Original holiday album Our Favorite Time Of Year.

Lena Hall's ambitious and successful year long EP project - Lena Hall OBSESSED - comes to end this month with her lovely tribute to Chris Cornell, the iconic front man of Soundgarden and Audioslave. The four-track OBSESSED: CHRIS CORNELL stands as a vivid and stirring conclusion to the series, offering listeners the entrancing angst of the grunge era and a delightful reprieve from effusively ebullient holiday music.

The twelfth and final month of Tony Winner, Lena Hall's Obsessed is upon us and this month, Lena is obsessed with grunge legend Chris Cornell.

Illiterate Light announced their debut EP, Sweet Beast, will be arriving January 18, sharing a new single, 'Nuthin's Fair', prior to its release this Friday, December 7. The Virginia duo of guitarist/vocalist Jeff Gorman and drummer/vocalist Jake Cochran are back on the road this month, currently supporting Post Animals (dates below) along with confirming 2019 appearances at the SXSW Music Conference and Shaky Knees Festival.

In celebration of their biggest and best year to date, Newcastle-formed, Brighton-based trio Demob Happy have today released a 'HOLY DOOM DELUXE' version of their acclaimed second album, announced a UK headline tour for Spring 2019, US festival appearances and dates alongside Graveyard and Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats.

Amazon Music continues to spread holiday cheer with a collection of brand-new Amazon Original songs for the holiday season. Available only on Amazon Music, listeners can find new songs from an array of artists across various genres, from alternative band 10 Years, to country and soul with Southern-soul octet St. Paul & The Broken Bones, roots multi-instrumentalist Molly Tuttle, country singer and former Amazon Music Weekly One Abby Anderson, contemporary singer and songwriter Lauren Daigle, and classic country singer/songwriter Joshua Hedley. Additionally, new festive tracks from GRAMMY-nominated R&B/Hip-Hop artist Aloe Blacc and genre-bending 'TrapHouseJazz' entertainer Masego are now available. Listeners can also continue to stream Katy Perry's brand-new Amazon Original holiday track, “Cozy Little Christmas,” already one of the most popular songs since its premiere two weeks ago. 

SKB Records has announced the twelfth and final month of the groundbreaking new music and video series LENA HALL Obsessed from the Tony Award winner and Grammy nominee. Obsessed: Chris Cornell - celebrating the late Grunge trailblazer who fronted Soundgarden and Audioslave before creating his own unique brand of modern rock - is now available for pre-order

RecordingTheMasters, the worldwide leader in reel-to-reel tape manufacturing, is launching its new analog compact musiccassette with best-in-class sound quality. Initially introduced at the Munich High End show this past May, the new FOX C-60 ferro-oxide cassette is now widely available in the U.S.