Posts Tagged ‘The Dead Weather’

What a difference a decade makes, The Kills know this more than most.

The answer as to how they know this so well is easy to trace, as a lot has happened in the ten-plus years since Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince first crossed paths during a chance encounter in a London squat. At the time, Mosshart was crashing out on tour in Europe as a member of the Florida pop-punk diehards Discount, and Hince was living upstairs, writing songs alone and still smoldering in the ashes of his own overlooked outfit Scarfo.  Flash forward to the April of 2011 and the two will tell you just how much a table can turn.

Former White Stripes songwriter Jack White has explained further the reasons for the duo highlighting their belief that the band ‘no longer belonged’ to them when announcing their decision to split last year.

Former White Stripes mainman Jack White has hinted his future may lie as a solo artist following the duo’s decision to call it a day earlier this month.

… or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hipsters and Their Skinny Jeans

Late December… the days are short (but getting longer) and cold as the year draws to an end. What better time than now to look back upon the past year and reminisce over some of the music related things that brought joy and warmth to our hearts over the last twelve months? So… in no particular order, here are 10 things I liked about music in 2010:

Acclaimed releases from Paul Weller, Villagers and Beach House all feature in the third part of Live4ever’s Essential Listening 2010 – The Albums.

Once you’ve been through this part of our list, why not do us a favour and recommend your own stand-outs from 2010. Leave us a comment below telling us what has rocked your 2010 to be in with a chance of winning a selection of prizes from acts featured on our own rundown.

Jack White has moved to defend his decision to sell limited editions of his Third Man Records’ catalogue via online auctions after the new practise sparked criticism amongst some fans.

The Dead Weather will be releasing three versions of their single “Blue Blood Blues” this week including, most excitingly, on a brand new format entitled the Triple Decker Record™. The Triple Decker Record ™ designed by Jack White and assembled by United Record Pressing Nashville, TN is a unique 7” version of the single embedded inside a 12” version. Triple Decker Record ™ will be available in a limited edition of 300 copies, 100 of which will be on-sale at the Third Man Records store in Nashville, and the remainder available randomly through mail order and at select brick and mortar vinyl dealers worldwide.

(8/3) Too often these days when you go see a band play live, what you wind up getting is pretty much a note for note rendering of the band’s recorded material. In and of itself there’s nothing necessarily wrong with this, but sometimes I feel like I might as well be seeing the band members doing nothing more than striking rockstar poses and miming along as their cds play in the background. Hey Weezer, I’m looking at you. So it’s rather refreshing when you get to see a band lay caution aside and tap into that almost dangerous level of excitement that tends to characterize the best live rock performances. I’m not even talking about hackneyed theatrics that have been a staple of rock performances since before Elvis Presley’s hips were censored on the Ed Sullivan Show (After all, we mustn’t allow our virginal teenage daughters to see such obscenity! Heaven forbid!), but a danger that comes from a band letting it all hang out musically and teetering on the edge of collapse. The whole affair is permeated with a sense of foreboding that at any minute the whole thing could fall apart into a shit show of epic proportions. Rarely does it do so, however, and that’s where the magic of a live performance lies.

White Stripes mainman Jack White has had his finger in countless musical pies since bursting onto the music scene with his former spouse Meg in 2000, and he now believes his latest venture, The Dead Weather, is inspiring him more than any other.

It is safe to say that Jack White has done it again. With a seemingly never-ending outpouring of great album after great album his latest venture with The Dead Weather closely follows suit. “Sea of Cowards,” the sophomore album from the four-piece composed of Jack White, Alison Mosshart, Dean Fertitia, and Jack Lawrence, is to The Dead Weather what “Consolers of the Lonely” was for The Raconteurs: the better-written, produced and more thoughtful answer to the band’s first effort. From end to end “Sea of Cowards” has head-bobbing grooves supported by White on drums and Lawrence on bass, addictive melodies supported by Fertitia’s keyboard and guitar, and dark and soulful vocals by both Mosshart and White. Often times it’s hard for the listener to distinguish between the two singers, which adds to the power behind each vocal line and the harmonies between the two.