Posts Tagged ‘Jack White’

Coldplay, The Black Keys and Jack White will go head-to-head in the Best Rock Video category at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, whose full list of nominees has been announced today.

Mumford & Sons have been confirmed to join the likes of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Jack White and Biffy Clyro at this year’s iTunes festival.

Newton Faulkner is on top of the UK Record Store Album Chart for a second week with his new LP ‘Write It On Your Skin‘, while Jack White and Paul Simon have both improved on last week’s positions.

Jack White has unveiled the full video for ‘Freedom At 21‘, the latest track to be taken from his trans-Atlantic number one debut solo album ‘Blunderbuss‘.

Heavyweight American songwriters Jack White and Neil Young will headline the 2012 Voodoo Music Festival and Arts Experience.

Jack White has confirmed Radiohead visited his Third Man recording studios in Nashville recently, after the British band hinted at the sessions during a gig at Bonnaroo last month.

Summer 2012. We’ve just had the wettest June on record, the festival season has been fractured by a series of cancellations, and album sales have fallen in their millions.

And yet, for every music fan, there’ still reasons to be cheerful.

The Stone Roses have just completed – with no major hiccups – the fastest selling weekend of live music in UK history, Blur have deemed us worthy to sample the fruits of their studio labours, some faith in humanity was restored when The Voice had its live tour pulled and, most importantly, for seven months now artists both new and established have been releasing a steady stream of truly impressive albums, proving once again that, if you’re prepared to look hard enough, quality is still out there in abundance.

So, take a look through just some of those releases we’ve pulled together for our latest Essential Listening rundown, and maybe you’ll spot something which will soon occupy a prominent place in your own record collection for the remainder of the year. And when you’ve been through the list, why not do the same for us by leaving a comment below highlighting your own favourites of 2012…so far.

Keith Richards has said ‘the door is always open’ for Jack White to follow up his as-yet-unreleased collaboration with the legendary guitarist in 2009 by producing new Rolling Stones material.

Beck will release a new single later this month on Jack White‘s Third Man Records label.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jack White and The Black Keys are amongst the big name acts confirmed for this year’s Austin City Limits festival.