Danger Mouse Teams Up with Jack White on Cinematic 'Rome'

Also: Stream new music by Tyler the Creator, Moby, Tinie Tempah, Cass McCombs and Britney Spears

From: http://www.rollingstone.com/

By Matthew Perpetua

In this week's slate of Rolling Stone reviews, Will Hermes approves of superproducer Danger Mouse and composer Daniele Luppi's Rome, a "15-track score to a film that exists only in your head" featuring vocals by Jack White and Norah Jones. He says that the tracks featuring White and Jones are quite good, but ultimately the record "is as much about sublime instrumentals — made of celesta, harpsichord, Hammond organ, strings, nasty funk guitar and those weird-ass choirs — as lead singers." Also, Jon Dolan praises Tyler, the Creator's controversial new album Goblin, observing that despite all the rapper's bile, his songs hint at a "boyish innocence." Lauren Sloss is less fond of songwriter Cass McCombs' latest, Wit's End, which she says is "difficult to listen to without a side of Prozac, or at least a stiff drink."

ALBUMS

Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi - Rome (stream full album)

Tyler, the Creator - Goblin (stream one song)

The Lonely Island - Turtleneck & Chain (stream one song)

Sixx: A.M. - This Is Gonna Hurt (stream one song)

Curren$y - Covert Coup (stream one song)

Cass McCombs - Wit's End (stream one song)

Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy (stream one song)

Ben Harper - Give Till Its Gone (stream one song)

Iggy Pop - Roadkill Rising: The Bootleg Collection

Moby - Destroyed (stream one song)

Matthew Morrison - Matthew Morrison (stream one song)

Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings (stream one song)

The Kinks - Kinda Kinks

The Kinks - Kontroversy

The Kinks - The Kinks

Aretha Franklin - A Woman Falling Out of Love

The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave (stream one song)

SONGS

Britney Spears featuring Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha "Till the World Ends (The Femme Fatale Remix)" (stream)

Bad Meets Evil "Fast Lane" (stream)

Miley Cyrus "Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live)" (stream)

White Stripes Call It Quits

by Beca Grimm

from http://www.npr.org/

Enlarge Ewen Spencer/Courtesy of the artists

Ewen Spencer/Courtesy of the artists

 

Meg and Jack White of White Stripes broke two years of silence within the band and announced on their website today that the duo is splitting up.

The release says that their decision to end a 13-year run isn't attributable to classic reasons like artistic differences, lost interest, etc. Instead, the Whites cite conservancy as the main rationale. "It is for a myriad of reasons," the note reads. "But mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way."

Jack White's Third Man Records, however, will continue issuing previously unreleased White Stripes material from throughout the band's history.

The band had this to officially say in the news release:

"The White Stripes do not belong to Meg and Jack anymore. The White Stripes belong to you now and you can do with it whatever you want. The beauty of art and music is that it can last forever if people want it to. Thank you for sharing this experience. Your involvement will never be lost on us and we are truly grateful."

Source: YouTube

Danger Mouse Announces New Filmic Collaboration, Jack White Guest Vocals

by Kali Holloway
from: http://www.prefixmag.com/

For nearly five years now, under a veil of secrecy, Danger Mouse has been collaborating with Italian composer Daniel Luppi on an album inspired by a shared love of ‘60s Italian film music. In a recent interview with the UK’s Guardian, the ubiquitous and prolific producer talked about the project, Rome, for the first time, and announced that guest singers will include the reformed Cantori Moderni choir – known for its appearances on soundtracks from composers including Ennio Morricone, Piero Umiliani and Bruno Nicolai – Norah Jones and Jack White. Danger Mouse explained how and why he settled on the White Stripes frontman.

"For the lead vocalists, I definitely wanted a man and a woman. The female vocal needed to be soft, not polarising. But the male needed to have a bit more angst to it. I played some of the music for Jack White when I was on tour shortly after doing the first session, just to show him what I was doing, because at the time everyone thought I was just a hip-hop guy, or whatever."

Even though White apparently liked what he heard, intially the producer "wasn't even thinking of using him. You know, it's Jack White. But in the end, I thought, he's really into it, why not?"

"We all understood that if it didn't work, it didn't work. But he tried it in different voices – a high voice, a low voice – and I thought, why don't we leave them all in? And it sounded great. There's a bunch of his vocals on “Rose With the Broken Neck,” and it doesn't always sound like him. Sometimes you're like, is that Jack or not?"

There’s still no release date for the newly announced album, which is being self-funded by Danger Mouse and partner Luppi. In the meantime, Danger Mouse fans can look forward (?) to hearing his production work on U2’s Songs of Ascent, due in 2011.

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Conan O'Brien, Jack White Team for Surprise Show

From: http://www.rollingstone.com/

Legally Prohibited band covers Elvis, the White Stripes at rocker's Third Man Studios

Courtesy of TeamCoco.com

By Daniel Kreps

Three hundred loyal Team Coco supporters were treated to a concert by Conan O'Brien and his Legally Prohibited touring band at Jack White's Third Man Studios yesterday in Nashville. The surprise gig, which was announced by White in a mysterious video on the Third Man site, came just one day before O'Brien began his stint as emcee of the comedy tent at Bonnaroo in nearby Manchester. About 24 hours before the performance, more than a thousand Conan fans had already lined the Third Man building in the scorching Nashville heat, hoping to get in. Conan and Jack White tossed water bottles from the Third Man roof to the fans waiting below, the AP reports.

Once inside, fans were treated to an intimate performance highlighted by cover versions of Elvis Presley's "Blue Moon" and "Poke Salad Annie," the Stray Cats' "Rock This Town," the Band's "The Weight" and a humorous version of Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" ("My old show again/I just can't wait to get my old show again" — only 150 days until Conan's TBS tenure begins.) O'Brien and his band also paid tribute to their host with a raucous rendition of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army."

Read our full report from O'Brien's first Legally Prohibited live show.

Rolling Stone previously spoke to Conan about his special bond with White, which led the Stripes to stage a four-night residency on Late Night With Conan O'Brien in 2003 and briefly end the White Stripes' still-ongoing hiatus with a performance of "We're Going to Be Friends" on Conan's final Late Night episode.

"The BEST part of the night was that the whole thing was being recorded on a reel to reel tape! Why reel to reel? Because tonight's performance is going to be pressed into a record that people at the show could buy," Conan's Team Coco blog reports. "What that also meant for the show was that halfway through, Conan & the band had to stop for a few minutes so that the reel could be changed!" According to reports, the vinyl was already up for pre-ordering for the lucky 300 in attendance, but details regarding the sure-to-be-limited-edition release have not yet been posted on the Third Man Records site.

While Conan and his band took their performance seriously for the most part, O'Brien did have some fun when the band detoured off the set list to cover Radiohead's "Creep," a song he previously sound-checked during a Legally Prohibited tour stop in Eugene, Oregon. "This is the only way I can sing Thom Yorke songs, as a 19th-century chimney sweep with a top hat and a smudge on my cheek," O'Brien said. Midway through the performance, Jack White jumped onstage to put a top hat on Conan's head. White eventually came onstage, guitar in hand, for the evening's last song, a cover of Eddie Cochran's "Twenty Flight Rock." "This is probably the most fun I've had in show business," O'Brien said prior to the encore.

O'Brien and White — with the Dead Weather — will both perform to much larger audiences this weekend at the Bonnaroo Festival. For Rolling Stone's full 'Roo coverage, click here:

• Rolling Stone's Essential Bonnaroo 2010 Coverage

And to read Max Weinberg's most recent comments on whether he'll be joining Conan on TBS this fall, check out Max Weinberg on His Future With Conan and Bruce.

Exclusive First Listen: Under Great White Northern Lights

npr.org — The White Stripes first ever live album won't debut until March 16, but NPR scored an "exclusive first listen" of the blistering barreling through of a decade-spanning assortment of newer songs and older fan favorites.

Click here to listen now: Exclusive First Listen: Under Great White Northern Lights

Jack White reveals solo album details: He's considering playing all the instruments himself on the album

From: http://www.nme.com/

Jack White has revealed details of his solo album, which he says he may record this year.

The White Stripes frontman hinted that he could get around to recording material for the album in the near future, though he admitted to Rolling Stone that he doesn't know what form it will take.

Asked to confirm whether he was still planning to release a solo album, White replied: "Eventually, yeah, for sure."

Speaking about whether he would play all instruments on it, he declared: "I've never done that [played everything himself]. I thought about that. That might be the challenge - to differentiate from anything else that I've done."

White also added that he doesn't know when he will begin work on new White Stripes, Raconteurs or Dead Weather material, explaining that he prefers to work without timeframes.

"It would be a mistake for me to premeditate anything, even in the next six months, to say what I'm going to do," White explained. "I honestly could be working on a White Stripes [album] in the next two weeks. I have no idea if that is going to happen. And the same with The Dead Weather. I'd rather live like this without a calendar in front of me."             

Jack White forms yet another new band, new CD

The Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- No one can accuse Jack White of being lazy.

The rocker is already a member of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs, and now White says he's formed a third band, The Dead Weather.

White announced the project Wednesday in Nashville and hosted a private party to hear the new CD and see a performance by the group. He says The Dead Weather's debut album, "Horehound," will be released in June on his Third Man record label.

Besides White, the new group includes Alison Mosshart of The Kills, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age and Jack Lawrence of The Greenhornes.

Both Fertita and Lawrence perform with White in The Raconteurs.

Sheryl Crow, Martina McBride and White's partner in the White Stripes, Meg White, were among more than 150 guests at the party.

Afterward, White said the group began as friends getting together to make music.

"The idea was to do a 7-inch single and be done with it, but we started writing songs and something happened," he said.

White says the band plans to tour this year.