Jack White expanded his Third Man empire into the realm of print publishing back in 2014. This month sees the release of two new collections by a couple of veteran Detroit musical figures. John Olson is best known as a member of the experimental noise-punk trio Wolf Eyes. Life Is a Rip Off: Part…
Third Man Records Cass Corridor has answered Michigan’s call to help the victims of Flint’s water fiasco. From now through Monday, January 25, TMR is asking that shoppers donate gallons and cases of water to be delivered to Flint residents in need. In return, those who participate will receive a raffle ticket for every…
Jack White has dug into his seemingly bottomless vault of recordings and come up with some live performances with pre-White Stripes bands Two Star Tabernacle, The Go, and Jack White and the Bricks. Three LPs will be released in the latest installment of Third Man’s Vault subscription series, with each album dedicated to one…
The big story last week may have been the grand opening of the Third Man Records Cass Corridor outpost in Jack White’s hometown of Detroit, but after taking a brief moment to celebrate, the label is back on its mission of releasing unique work by one-of-a-kind artists. Today, the imprint announced that it will…
Third Man Records is finally coming home to Detroit. After seven years of operating its headquarters in Nashville, Jack White’s infamous record label will open its Shinola-adjacent doors to the masses on November 27 – Black Friday. The Cass Corridor location was announced in June and construction has been quietly moving forward…
Video may have killed the radio star, but it has been enjoying quite the afterlife online, with numerous Internet radio stations catering to a increasingly fractured listening audience. Prominent among these is Pitchfork Radio, the recently launched broadcasting wing of the popular music website, Pitchfork.com. After a promising start in Los Angeles this winter,…
Jack White is bringing back the fine art of black-and-yellow photography. Yes, you read that right. Continuing his ongoing trend for reviving all things vintage, the Detroit native’s label Third Man Records is partnering with The Impossible Project — a company whose mission is to preserve the art of Polaroid photography — to produce…
Fresh off a much-lauded performance last weekend at Governors Ball in New York City, Weird Al Yankovic made a stop at Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville to make a very unique kind of recording. The reigning king of song parodies tried his hand, and his vocal cords, out in the Voice-O-Graph booth,…
In what should be a highly auspicious announcement for Midtown Detroit, particularly following recent developments on the new arena for the Detroit Red Wings, Shinola founder Tom Kartsotis has partnered with Detroit-native Jack White to purchase the building that currently houses the Shinola Flagship store at 441 W. Canfield in Cass Corridor. This deal…
Just three days after a career-spanning set at Coachella, Jack White has announced that he will take a break from live performing… “for a long period of time.” According to a Facebook post by Third Man Records, White has decided to lay low after years of touring with multiple configurations, but will embark…