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Posts tagged Jack White
Alabama Shakes rattles and rolls with “Girls and Boys”
Tapped by MTV as the best thing since pregnant sixteen year olds, Alabama Shakes has made quite an impression on the music industry since their self-titled EP dropped in 2011. Indeed, Jack White, former White Stripes frontman, record producer and diehard ICP fan, has corralled the quartet into producing a number of singles under his Third Man Records label. The band has also performed live on Conan – playing “Hold On”, and my personal favourite track off their album, “I Ain’t the Same”, very convincingly - as well as a birthday special on David Letterman earlier this month. In their first album Girls and Boys, Alabama Shakes does justice to the acclaim showered on them by the music industry mavens who have put their names behind the band.
Jack White: “Love Interruption”
Now that Jack White has finally ran out of other people to work with, the vinyl traditionalist is free to strip it all back and put out a project under his own name. But that doesn’t mean he’s reinventing himself. Lyrically, his debut solo single, “Love Interruption,” exudes the same awkwardly macabre bitterness that White often turned to in both the White Stripes and the Dead Weather. “I want love to stick a knife inside me and twist it all around/ I want love to murder my own mother and take her off to somewhere like hell or up above,” White sings in a smoky quaver that betrays the song’s Wurlitzer flourishes and relaxed tempo.
The White Stripes Break Up
Today, The White Stripes announced that the band has officially broken up. Meg and Jack White will no longer make music or take place in live performance under the moniker. In a statement released earlier, the band stated “The reason is not due to artistic differences or lack of wanting to continue, nor any health issues as both Meg and Jack are feeling fine and in good health. It is for a myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way.” The White Stripes have given us over 10 years of consistently great music, and have risen to become one of the most appreciated bands of their time. Although it is sad to see them go, they will live on as an integral part of the past decade’s music scene.
-Dorian Blue Mendoza
