O n December 4th, Third Man Records and Columbia Records will release the White Stripes‘ Greatest Hits, a 26-song collection pulling from the band’s prolific run of six original albums from 1999 to 2007. One of those albums, 2003’s Elephant, was recently voted one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums …
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The Black Keys, Let’s Rock” **** The Raconteurs, Help Us Stranger **** If rock is dead, that memo did not reach Nashville, where these albums were recorded. And Detroit – the Raconteurs’ real home, where singer-guitarists Jack White and Brendan Benson each grew up in the local garage-punk ruckus – …
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Jack White, Boarding House ReachThe new album from the rocker-turned mogul is a “messy, sprawling, daffy, howling set that sounds spiritually hungry, collectively driven and, instructively, a little bit lost,” writes Will Hermes. “It’s his strangest record, but per usual, it shows his continued devotion to rock’s dark arts: the …
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