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Jack White Gets Nominated for a Country Music Award

Jack White is a lot like Wikipedia. He's generally considered an authority figure, though some would dispute him, and he is increasingly everywhere. Well, White's spread into every facet of the music world continues; he's been nominated, with his ragtag gang The Raconteurs, for a Country Music Award. The show will air Nov. 11.Could a Tony be next? A Nobel Peace Prize? A Purple Heart? All in good time, grasshopper. All in good time....  read more

Elephant in the Band

The Raconteurs are Nashville’s best foursome since The Highwaymen. One pale-faced member also happens to be a rock star, and try as he might, Jack White can’t just anonymously blend in...   read more

Raconteurs, Justice, TVOTR play Treasure Island fest

I mean honestly, Coachella is just so L.A. NorCal has it’s own music event now, as the Treasure Island Music Festival returns after its successful debut last year. This year’s two-day festival will be held on Saturday, Sept. 20 and Sunday, Sept. 21 and will feature headliners Justice and The Raconteurs along with other awesome acts such as Hot Chip, The Kills, TV On the Radio, Tegan & Sara, Vampire Weekend, Okkervil River, CSS, The Dodos and many more. Organized by the creators of the Noise Pop Festival and Another Planet Entertainment, the line-up reprises the style of 2007’s festival...  read more

Raconteurs chat about upcoming album

Being the literal raconteurs they are, that is, people adept at sharing anecdotes, Jack White and Brendan Benson of the band Raconteurs have chosen a time-tested storytelling medium to drop new details on their next album -- fake instant messaging on fake MS-DOS (as is the style of their website). brendan: jack why don't you want to tell people about the new album we've got cooking? jack: i'll tell them when the time is right. brendan: what time is it right now? jack: three o'clock brendan: but the clock on the wall says 2:10 jack: ok, the time is right....  read more