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We’ve long known that new music from resident local rocker and Third Man Records head honcho Jack White was on the way, after he revealed last spring that he’d been holed up in a small apartment, writing with no distractions. Weeks of musical teases and a wave of huge festival announcements- Jack’s first full-scale live dates…
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The 59th Annual Grammy Awards air tonight, Sunday, Feb. 12, and, per usual, Nashville artists are strongly represented, both in nominations and performance slots. Though local nods, as always, skew strongly towards the mainstream country, gospel, americana, bluegrass, classical, and Christian realm, nominations for favorites like Cage the Elephant and Jack White, pseduo-Nashville rockers Alabama Shakes, pop star transplant Justin Timberlake, and,…
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It’s hard to believe that, with the exception of an appearance on Prairie Home Companion, Jack White, who just recently notched his Grammy nom total up to 35, hasn’t played a show in going on 18 months. After his lauded 2015 Coachella headlining sets, White announced that he would be taking a hiatus from…
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Long running radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion started their 2016 season over the weekend, but with one major change, no Garrison Keillor. Keillor, who created the beloved show in 1974, retired last year, and virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile (Nickel Creek, The Punch Brothers) took over as host to carry the torch into its…
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Via Instagram user @hauserpromo. Yusaf Islam, commonly known by his former/musical stage name Cat Stevens, and now frequently referred to as Yusaf/Cat Stevens, played his first Nashville show in 40 years last night at the historic Ryman Auditorium. Unsurprisingly, the iconic singer-songwriter delivered an epic, career-spanning set, and even invited out a few guests, one of…
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It’s been a busy few weeks for resident local rocker Jack White, who just released a new career-spanning compilation, Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016, collecting rare, unreleased, and stripped down versions of songs from both his solo career and from his numerous, prominent bands (buy it here). Over the weekend, White appeared on The Tonight Show, where he made…
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The Jack White juggernaut has slowed down in the past year, after the Nashville based rocker announced that he would be “taking a break from performing live for a long period of time.” However, that hasn’t slowed White from helping to launch a record player into space, releasing a documentary on the recording industry, and,…
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The Jack White juggernaut has slowed down in the past year, after the Nashville based rocker announced that he would be “taking a break from performing live for a long period of time.” However, that hasn’t slowed White from helping to launch a record player into space, releasing a documentary on the recording industry, and,…
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Third Man Records have just announced that supergroup The Dead Weather will release their much-anticipated and long-awaited third album finally this September after half a year of teasing fans with tracks released exclusively to Third Man’s vinyl collecting fan club The Vault and promising a new record despite the members’ busy schedules. Dodge &…
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Capping off a lengthy tour cycle in support of last year’s Lazaretto, which has taken him all across the globe, Nashville rocker Jack White has announced that, following his headlining stints this week at Coachella, he will be “taking a break from performing live for a long period of time.” Before he takes a breather, however, Jack…