Grizzly Bear fa la la la la-ed, Your Vegas wore too much clothing (long sleeve shirts and jeans) for the 85 degree and humid Chicago weather, Duffy sounded just like she does on her album, Ohio-based duo the Black Keys' music was so powerful that I was convinced there was three or more people on stage, but the first day of Lollapalooza 2008 really belonged to Radiohead and The Raconteurs. For t...
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(Click and read the Day 1 wrap up: photos of Hot Chip, Goldfrapp and more.)Back to the island! It started off windy and stayed that way. Some performers struggled with the wind - Fleet Foxes asked, "Can you turn the wind down? Less wind, thanks." The wind and cold affected the atmosphere of the crowd. They seemed underdressed and cold, inhibiting their enthusiasm. But Okkervil River hit the sta...
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The Raconteurs' Consolers of the Lonely (country twang slipping in and out of Who-esque rock tracks) has been spinning nonstop on my iTunes. Today news that the band have extended their spring/summer tour, which is kicking off on 4/20 in Vancouver. The US tour culminates with a performance at Bonnaroo on June 13th, after which the band heads to Europe for the remainder of the summer.The Raconte...
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The Raconteurs definitely give you a bang for your buck when it comes to their live show. And for anyone who missed Jack White and co. the first time they came west coast you've got luck on your side because the Raconteurs are coming back around. This time with an added bonus: openers the Kills. The Raconteurs kick off their extended fall tour on September 19th at the Roseland Theater in Portla...
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Last year after the inaugural "Treasure Island Music Festival,":www.treasureislandfestival.com MOG was lit up with posts about the event, posts that made me wish I was there.(Wow!)The fest returns Saturday, September 20th and Sunday, September 21st for its second year at the same locale, the little island between the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Along with headliners the Raconteurs and Justice,...
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Behold the powers of the mandolin! You gotta love how the instrument can turn the Racontuers pseudo honky-tonk romp "Old Enough" into a full-fledge bluegrass number. The Raconteurs hung up the electrical equipment and went into a converted church studio to jam with bluegrass/country star Ricky Skaggs. White seems to be making a lot of new friends now that he's livin' in Nashville. They also pic...
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Yesterday(March 25) Jack White side group The Raconteurs released their sophomore album ??Consolers Of The Lonely??(Warner Bros.). A video for the first single from the album, "Salute Your Solution" was released on the same day. This album is unique in that the band has done no promotion previous to the album's release, and its existence was only confirmed a week before its release.Quite simply...
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Radiohead's name-you-own-price tactic was novel in the sense you got to download the band's album virtually for free and straight into your iTunes Library, without having to head to iTunes. But, today when I headed over to the Raconteurs Web site, not necessarily to purchase their new album Consolers Of The Lonely, but to see the band's new video for "Salute You Solution," the novelty of going ...
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Just when things started to get quiet on the Raconteurs front, the boys put on their favorite top hats, took to the woods with mirrors and director Autumn De Wilde to shoot the video for the Consolers of the Lonely track "Old Enough." Wilde's "Old Enough" shoot captures a honky-tonk good time between Jack White and co, and even recalls some horror movie memories, like the Blair Witch Project. J...
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The Raconteurs - White Stripes frontman Jack White, Brendan Benson and The Greenhornes' members Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler - are almost done with the follow-up to their 2006 debut Broken Boy Soldiers.Last week the band posted a photo and message about recording at Nashville's Blackbird studio saying, "The Raconteurs are currently finishing up their second album in Nashville, TN. They prom...
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The Raconteurs NewsThe stunning new bluegrass inspired version of "Old Enough" featuring Ricky Skaggs and Ashley Monroe will be released digitally exclusively through Amazon.com on December 2, 2008. The song will hit all other digital retailers on December 9, 2008 where it will be also be released as a physical cd single. Lastly, it will see it's 7" vinyl release on December 16, 2008.Full Track...
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Songbird, the open-source customizable music player powered by Mozilla and built by "The Pioneers of the Inevitable" and users like you has hatched.I've been playing with the pre-release versions of Songbird for awhile now and after getting used to it I'm really liking it more and more. Not a replacement for itunes, yet, but wonderful for grabbing songs off the web and getting lots of instant ...
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The Raconteurs sophomore release, Consolers of the Lonely, will be released Tuesday, March 25, according to a press release from the group that includes the White Stripes' Jack White.The first single is "Salute Your Solution," and a video will be released online next Tuesday as well.The 14-song album was completed during the first week of March and "was then taken immediately to a vinyl pressin...
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The Raconteurs are currently in Nashville working on their sophomore release. Their debut, ??Broken Boy Soldiers?? (V2) went along with moderate fanfare. The band has had much attention thrown their way because front-man Jack White of the White Stripes. White, also serves as producer of band explains: "We don't know if were going to finish but we wanted to get everything down before we got busy...
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You know that nagging feeling in the back of your head when you haven't visited The Hives website in a while and you just know you're missing something? Well we were.The Hives mainman, Pele Almqvist, posted over a week ago that he flew to Nashville, had breakfast with Jack White and "recorded footsteps" for the album that The Raconteurs are currently recording.The head Hive also noted that he's...
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