Jack White News

English alternative rock band, Demob Happy, have announced they will be hitting the road this fall for their fourth North American tour. The band will be supporting Band of Skulls kicking off on September 1 in Nashville, TN and wrapping up on October 6 in Los Angeles, CA. For a list of full dates, please see below!

English alternative rock band, Demob Happy, have announced they will be hitting the road this fall for their fourth North American tour. The band will be supporting Band of Skulls kicking off on September 1 in Nashville, TN and wrapping up on October 6 in Los Angeles, CA. For a list of full dates, please see below or visit: https://www.demob-happy.com/.

With exclusive access, Dolly's Country (w/t) comes to BBC Two this autumn as part of a season of programmes putting a spotlight on country music.

C.W. Stoneking has announced his first North American tour in two years.  The celebrated Australian songsmith recently relocated to Nashville, a perfect fit for the musician's soft drawl, Southern spirit, and expansive musical vocabulary. The solo headline run kicks-off on August 30th in St. Louis before traversing the rest of the Midwest, Canada and the East Coast – including a one-off supporting Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats on August 31st and stops at Schuba's in Chicago and the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY.

Olivia Jean is back on the beat with her second full-length (and first self-produced) album Night Owl, due out August 30, 2019 on Third Man Records. The title track and first single “Night Owl” is available today on streaming services and on 7” vinyl with physical-only B-side “Jaan Pehechaan Ho.” The black vinyl 7” is available now here. Tri-color 7” records will be available at Third Man Records Nashville & Detroit storefronts on Saturday, August 3rd. An accompanying video, directed by Nashville's Zack Hall and filmed in Third Man Records Blue Room, was also released today. Watch the video HERE and find the audio version of “Night Owl” on all streaming services HERE.

Brooklyn based alt-pop band Spirit Animal have just dropped their new track 'Arm Candy' today. Check out the video, which can't be unseen, below, and on all streaming services. The band is also happy to announce the release of REBORN YESTERDAY, out on September 20th via RED MUSIC. REBORN YESTERDAY is the deluxe version of the band's debut full-length album Born Yesterday and features three new tracks, including their newest track, 'Arm Candy'.

Third Man Hardware is excited to announce their newest pedal The PLASMA Coil, a special version of the PLASMA Pedal created by Gamechanger Audio and Third Man Records. The high-voltage distortion and octave effect pedal -- which Jack White is currently using in his rig on tour with The Raconteurs -- will be available in standard edition black and special edition yellow (while supplies last) exclusively at Third Man's online and physical stores now.

Grammy Award winner John Paul White is set to continue his North American tour in support of his new solo album The Hurting Kind (out now on Single Lock Records) with a run of west coast performances with Shovels & Rope. Tickets go on sale on July 19 at 10 a.m. local time, see below for a list of dates.

HELP US STRANGER (Third Man Records), the acclaimed third studio album from GRAMMY® Award-winning rockers The Raconteurs – Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler –has debuted at #1 on this week's SoundScanBillboard 200 -- the band's first-ever #1 and their third trip to the top 10. The album also sits on top of the physical albums chart, as well as the vinyl chart. In fact,HELP US STRANGER garnered the sixth highest first-week vinyl sales in the SoundScan era (with Jack White holding the #1 and #4 spots for Lazaretto and Boarding House Reach, respectively). The album is the first #1 for an independent record company in 2019, and is the fourth consecutive Billboard #1 for Jack White as an artist. In addition to its chart-topping achievements here in the United States, HELP US STRANGER has also debuted at #1 on the album sales chart in Canada and #2 on the overall Canadian album chart. The success continues in the UK where the album took the top spot on the UK vinyl chart, along with being the #3 independent album and #8 on the Official UK Albums chart. HELP US STRANGER is available physically and digitally now worldwide.

Fantastic Negrito is marking the one year anniversary of his GRAMMY® Award-winning album, PLEASE DON'T BE DEAD, with the premiere of a powerful new companion video. 'The Suit That Won't Come Off' is streaming now at Fantastic Negrito's official YouTube channel HERE. A special closed captioned version of the video is also available to stream on Fantastic Negrito's official Facebook page with a donation link to the Braille Institute.

The Raconteurs – Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler – have officially released their long awaited new album, HELP US STRANGER (Third Man Records). The GRAMMY® Award-winning rock band's third studio LP and first new album in more than a decade is available everywhere now.

 KCRW announces today that Jason Bentley will complete his ten-year term as KCRW's Music Director and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic. Bentley's last show as host of Morning Becomes Eclectic will be August 30, 2019. KCRW will be conducting a nationwide search to find Bentley's replacement. Bentley will continue to host his popular Saturday-night global electronic mix show, Metropolis.

Veteran R&B / blues icon Garrett Duton (G. Love) of G. Love & Special Sauce returns to Nauset Beach this fall for a reprisal of his inaugural sell-out event, the Cape Cod Roots & Blues Festival. The one-day celebration of music, community, and Cape Cod beach culture will take place September 14, 2019 in Orleans, Massachusetts, with sets from Citizen Cope, Chadwick Stokes and The Pintos, Mihali(of Twiddle), Clearcola, plus a generous helping of G. Love & Special Sauce's signature Delta blues, rock, and roots.

The Raconteurs – Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler – have unveiled “Bored and Razed,” the latest track from their long-awaited new album, HELP US STRANGER (Third Man Records). “Bored and Razed” – featured earlier today on Apple Music's Beats 1 as Zane Lowe's World Record – is available now for streaming and download. The band also released an official lyric video for the track.

The STRAY CATS will release 40--their first new album in 26 years--this Friday, May 24 on the heels of three singles they've recently issued from the album: 'Cat Fight (Over A Dog Like Me),' 'Rock It Off' and 'Cry Danger,' the latter of which was premiered this past Friday at Guitar World. 

The Raconteurs – Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler – have released their brand-new single “Help Me Stranger”. The latest track to be released from their long awaited new album,HELP US STRANGER (Third Man Records) is out digitally everywhere now and is available instantly with all digital pre-orders of the album, along with previously released songs “Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness),” “Now That You're Gone,” and “Sunday Driver.” The band have also premiered the companion music video for “Help Me Stranger” today on YouTube. The video, which was filmed last month in the mysterious city of Kimitsu, Japan by director/visual effects specialist Yasuhiko Shimizu around the band's recent Tokyo shows, can be seen now HERE.

Trey Anastasio will perform two solo acoustic shows at New York's legendary Carnegie Hall. The performances will take place on Tuesday, October 29 and Wednesday, October 30. All tickets go on sale Friday, May 17 at 11AM ET. Tickets can be purchased online or via phone at 212-247-7800 (8AM-8PM). Tickets can be also purchased in person at the Carnegie Hall box office (Monday - Saturday 11AM-6PM and Sunday 12PM-6PM).

Geva Theatre Center's 46th Season concludes with the world premiere of Revival: The Resurrection of Son House, written and directed by Keith Glover, with music by Son House, Billy Thompson and Keith Glover, musical direction by Billy Thompson and choreography by Norwood Pennewell, in the Elaine P. Wilson Stage from May 1 through June 2, 2019.

Fresh from announcing their new album HELP US STRANGER (out June 21 via Third Man Records) and their return to the stage after an eight-year absence, The Raconteurs – Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler – have shared their cover of Donovan's 'Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness)' -- listen HERE. Originally dropped on Bandcamp without warning earlier this week, the track is now available to purchase and stream digitally everywhere. HELP US STRANGER is now available for pre-order HERE. All digital album pre-orders come with instant downloads of “Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness),” as well as previously released tracks “Sunday Driver” and “Now That You're Gone.”

Atlanta's Mattiel have announced details of their second album, Satis Factory, to be released on ATO Records on Friday June 7th 2019. The news comes with a punchy new song, 'Keep The Change', previously debuted during a rollicking performance for NBC's Last Call last week. The song launches today on DSPs with an impressive factory filmed video.