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NEWS ABOUT: Jack White

Jack White stories: 6 news summaries
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 How to Save 
 the Music Biz 


Sep 12, 09 7:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The album is dead. Touring is on the fade. File-sharing is killing download profits. Adieu, music biz? Not so fast, reports The Wrap, which offers five fixes:
  • Drop the price. Ninety-nine cents for a song? Try 10. "Lower the price point, and you undercut the very foundation of
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music industry • iTunes • file sharing • Guitar Hero • Rock Band • record label • Jack White

MUSIC REVIEW

 Jack White's 
 New Band 
 Opens Strong 

Jack White's latest effort confirms his reign as king of the blues-rockers

Jul 13, 09 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jack White’s rise to stardom in the postmillennial world of the struggling blues rocker is “remarkable,” and he continues to “honor the blues’ authenticity” while also exploiting its “capacity for mythology” with his third project, writes Stuart Berman for Pitchfork. On Horehound, the Dead Weather—... More »

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entertainment • music • album release • blues • music review • White Stripes • Jack White • Jay-ZTV • The Dead Weather • Alison Mossheart • The Kills • Raconteurs • Queens of the Stone Age

(Newser) - Three bands just weren’t enough for Jack White, who’s started a music store/recording studio/record label in his adopted hometown of Nashville. Third Man Records is “where everything starts to make sense,” the White Stripes frontman tells the Wall Street Journal. “Where modern meets old... More »

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entertainment • music • producers • Nashville • record label • White Stripes • Jack White • Meg White • The Dead Weather • Third Man Records

Hank Williams' Grandkid Jumps Outside Country Box

Second album has a twang, but don't typecast her: She likes Radiohead, too

Jun 12, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Holly Williams is a descendant of country legends—Hank Williams was her grandfather, Hank Williams Jr. her father—but she’s no “cowboy hat-wearing country girl,” she tells the Telegraph. The singer and boutique owner, who admires artists from Dolly Parton to Radiohead, releases her second album Tuesday,... More »

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music • country music • Hank Williams • album release • Jack White • Jay-ZTV • Holly Williams • Kings of Leon

 It Might Get Loud Hits 
 Guitar Hero Trifecta 

Jimmy Page, U2's Edge and Jack White get their axe grind on in new documentary

Sep 19, 08 6:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - There's no Behind the Music-style debauchery to be found in It Might Get Loud, Rolling Stone reports. Rather, the documentary more resembles “having three carpenters talk about a radial-arm saw,” quips Jack White, who along with the Edge (of U2) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), form the heart... More »

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film • U2 • rock and roll • guitar • Led Zeppelin • Jimmy Page • documentary film • White Stripes • Jack White • the Edge

Alicia Keys, Jack White Record 007 Theme

Duo replaces Amy Winehouse to record 'Another Way to Die'

Jul 30, 08 10:35 AM CDT
(AP) - It's a double-O duet. Alicia Keys and White Stripes frontman Jack White have recorded the theme song for the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, producers said today. White wrote and produced the song, dubbed "Another Way to Die," and also plays drums and provides vocals... More »

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James Bond • Amy Winehouse • Alicia Keys • Quantum of Solace • White Stripes • Jack White

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