Break out your old Walkman… The White Stripes have announced the release of their first three albums — The White Stripes (1999), De Stijl (2000), and White Blood Cells (2001) — on limited edition white cassettes, exclusively for Cassette Store Day 2017 this upcoming Saturday, October 14. According to Third Man Records, the reissues…
Jack White is a man of many identities: upholsterer and musician, performer and businessman, rock star and father, Detroiter and Nashvillian. A new in-depth feature on the prolific artist in the March 13 issue of The New Yorker provides an intimate glimpse of the enigmatic figure and introduces us to new depths of the…
On Saturday, February 25 at 10:00 a.m., Third Man Pressing — a new vinyl pressing plant located in Midtown Detroit’s Cass Corridor — will hold a free grand opening event. This occasion is open to the public and will feature performances by The Mummies, The Oblivians, and Craig Brown Band. Perhaps the most…
In anticipation of his upcoming career-spanning new release Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016, due out September 9 on double CD, double LP, and digitally via Third Man/Columbia, Detroit-native rock legend Jack White has launched an interactive timeline on his website that tells the stories behind each one of the 26 tracks on the compilation. The…
It’s been a busy year for Iggy Pop. The Godfather of Punk released his seventeenth solo album, Post Pop Depression, and embarked on a world tour with collaborators Josh Homme, Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita, and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. Now the 69-year-old icon is telling the story of the…
In the 28th and latest installation of Third Man Records’ Vault series, label boss and Detroit native Jack White has released Live in Idaho, a double LP of solo, White Stripes, and Raconteurs songs he recorded in Boise, Idaho, as part of his first-ever all-acoustic tour. The box set also includes Live in…
With vinyl sales at a 26-year high, this year’s Record Store Day promises to be bigger than ever. The annual event, founded in 2007, has already announced its list of exclusive releases that will be available at independent stores on April 16. Today, Third Man Records added a few more entries to the roster,…
Detroit native Jack White recently made an appearance on The Muppets season finale to give the show’s famed house band Electric Mayhem a turn in their ever-rotating cast of backing musicians. His appearance had been promoted in a teaser in which the former White Stripe performed “Fell in Love with a Girl” alongside a…
“Cynthia Vortex aka Trip Memory Illness,” the final track on Wolf Eyes’ latest album, I Am a Problem: Mind in Pieces, is an eight-minute-long lysergic slide deep into a troubled psyche, punctuated with incomprehensible, garbled moans, droning subsonic bass frequencies, lurching guitar riffs, electronic slicing and dicing, and a forlorn flute solo. It’s a…
