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What Jack White Could Learn About Lady Gaga and "Authenticity"

Like a euphemism for cunnilingus, the authenticity debate has returned to pop music. Which is to say, it never really left, but was badly in need of a new spin. And Jack White has obliged us. Sort of. Last week White spoke to Esquire UK about Lady Gaga, among other things. "I don't think she lives ... More >>

The 5 Best Concerts in San Francisco This Week

Dum Dum Girls @ Fox Theater, Thursday, Dec, 6 Kristin "Dee Dee" Gundred's yelping on Grand Ole Party's stomping blues-punk already cemented her as an indie rock lifer (and worthy Beth Ditto successor). But with Dum Dum Girls, Gundred ushered back into the fold girl-group pop that would pave the way ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Live 105 Announces Two-Day Not So Silent Night With Jack White, the Killers, M83, More

Just when you thought the season of multiple-day megaconcerts had ended, here's Live 105 with its largest Not So Silent Night concert ever. The two-day minifestival will take place Dec. 7 and 8 at Oracle Arena, with headliners Jack White and the Shins on Friday and the Killers and M83 on Saturday. C ... More >>

Bridge School Videos: Guns N' Roses Play Some Classics, Jack White's Full Set, and More

So Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit concert went down at Shoreline Amphitheatre this weekend, bringing artists like the Flaming Lips, Jack White, Guns N' Roses, Eddie Vedder, and many more onstage for an all-acoustic show. Somewhat surprisingly, Guns N' Roses actually showed up, apparently ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Bridge School Benefit Lineup 2012: Guns N' Roses, Flaming Lips, Jack White, and More

The lineup for the 2012 Bridge School Benefit concert is out! Big names for this year's benefit include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Guns N' Roses, the Flaming Lips, Jack White, and Foster the People. The annual concert -- which helps support the educational institution for individuals with severe sp ... More >>

The Best of Outside Lands: Sunday, Aug. 12

Jack White Jack White likes the struggle. He's said so in interviews. He believes in hard work. The guiding force of each performance is the feeling that arises as the musicians collectively navigate the particular challenges of each moment on stage. Every show is guaranteed to be different. There a ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

On Jack White's Crusade Against Social Media at Live Shows

Well, hello! Let's talk about social media at live shows, shall we? IPhones, Twitter, Instagram: I'm all for them. Jack White, on the other hand? He is not. White has taken to posting signs at shows telling his fans that the use of Twitter and Facebook is "strictly prohibited" during his set. (No w ... More >>

Outside Lands 2012 Lineup: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, and More

Outside Lands just released the lineup for 2012, its fifth year -- and it's a big one. Headliners include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, Justice, Beck, Sigur Ros, and more. The festival takes place in Golden Gate Park Friday through Sunday, ... More >>

Jack White's Solo Debut, Blunderbuss: A First Listen

For some reason, like the Craig Finn solo album, I'm kind of dreading this. Jack White's one of my generation's greatest, which is partly the reason I'm always worried about when he'll Clapton out. Without his cro Meg-non secret weapon on drums (well, drum, singular -- as in one at a time), he came ... More >>

Jack White's Third Man Records Throws 1,000 Perfectly Decent Records Away Via Balloon

In what was most assuredly not an April Fool's joke, stunt, or prank, the folks at Jack White's Third Man Records yesterday attached 1,000 records to 1,000 large blue helium balloons and sent them off into the sky to be lost forever (except to a fanatic bunch of fools who will pay insane amounts of ... More >>

Springsteen Says Rockers Are Thieves: Five Songs You May Not Know Were Stolen

​Last Thursday, Bruce Springsteen made the keynote speech at South By Southwest. He was funny, he was heartfelt, he was informative and -- dang, Boss! -- he was ridiculously honest. So honest in fact, that he picked up a guitar, played the opening riff from The Animals' "We Gotta Get Out of this P ... More >>

Divorces Galore: Eight Musical Couples We Wish Were Still Together

Since Monday, media everywhere has been agog at the news that Kim Kardashian and her husband of just 72 days are getting divorced. If you ask us, that union was doomed from the get-go. Anyone who watches Keeping Up With The Kardashians knows that those two barely even knew each other (Not that we wa ... More >>

Why Did Jack White Collaborate With the Misogynistic Insane Clown Posse?

​Jack White is a man we like. We like the White Stripes, we like the Dead Weather -- hell, we even like bits and pieces of what The Raconteurs have done (yes, they're boring occasionally, but they really come alive from time to time). He's a maverick, a man with ambition, a ma ... More >>

This IS It: A Letter to the Perfume-Shilling Julian Casablancas

Something stinks, and it's you.​Dear Julian Casablancas, Remember how the Strokes were good that one time in 2001? Yeah, we're ready to forget that ever happened -- but then again, we're pretty sure you already have. Once upon a time, you brought us the bouncy, gritty swagger of "Last Nite" ... More >>

Five Things Even We Can't Hate About U2

That which we abhor.​U2 is playing in Oakland tonight, and we're reasonably confident that of the roughly 20,000 people who will be attending, we are dreading it the most. Yes, we loathe the pompous rock wannabes of U2. We tend to spit at the very mention of Bono. Shown pictures of his wraparo ... More >>

The Kills: Show Preview

R.I.P. The White Stripes, 1997-2011: An Appreciation

R.I.P., guy and gal.​More than just a band ended today, with the White Stripes' announcement that they are formally ceasing to record, perform, exist. (They hadn't done anything for a long while, anyway.) Easily the best of a cohort that might loosely be known as the "The" bands -- the Strokes, th ... More >>

Show Preview: The Dead Weather

Put Away the Cameras and Watch the Show, Music Fans

​In a recent interview with Spinner, White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather mastermind Jack White explained why he doesn't allow fans to shoot photos and video during shows at Third Man Records:When we have concerts [at Third Man Records headquarters in Nashville], we don't allow people to film and ... More >>

Show preview: Stone Foxes

LCD Soundsystem, Belle & Sebastian, The National, Broken Social Scene Top Treasure Island Lineup

Christopher VictorioJack White with the Raconteurs at Treasure Island 2008​The lineup for the 2010 Treasure Island Music Festival was unveiled earlier today, and it's every bit as drool-worthy as we had hoped. First: the rumors were right, and Belle & Sebastian is headlining the second day's s ... More >>

Friday Night: The Dead Weather at the Fillmore

​The Dead Weather Friday, April 16, 2010 The Fillmore Better Than: Watching the new White Stripes concert DVD cranked up to 11. When The Dead Weather made its Bay Area debut at last year's Outside Lands festival, modern guitar giant Jack White's latest project offered one of th ... More >>

It Might Get Loud

Outside Lands Picks Part 2: Dead Weather

Best Rock Movie Ever?

Heroic Trio: Jack White, Jimmy Page, and the Edge I had a chance to see a sneak preview of the documentary It Might Get Loud yesterday. First impressions? Best. Rock. Movie. Ever. The film, scheduled to open in Bay Area theaters August 28, takes three guitar gods from different eras--Led Zeppelin l ... More >>

Last Night: Sleepy Sun at Great American Music Hall

Sleepy SunFriday, June 19, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: Black Mountain Brightblack Morning Light Black SabbathThe members of Sleepy Sun had barely taken the stage last night, and the dudes behind me were already stoked. "Oh my God," one of them started repeating to his friend. "Oh m ... More >>

Track of the Day: Screaming Females

Expect to hear a lot more from New Jersey trio Screaming Females--mostly because they're an excellent sideways-titled, banshee-screaming take on post punk and black 'n' bluesy garage rock. But you'll also hear more about these guys and gal because they have big fans in high places. Word has it the s ... More >>

Last Night: Treasure Island Day 2

MP3 of the Day: Silverghost

The Raconteurs transcend the members' other bands

Jack White's Raconteurs Releases New Album Next Week, Plays Bimbo's in April

Playing for Keeps

Oneida vs. Raconteurs: one big riff deserves another

Whirlwind Heat

Types of Wood

Jack White bros down for an intimate in-store

The Raconteurs

Broken Boy Soldiers

Department of What the Fuck?

Jingle bells, the White Stripes smell, Ben Gibbard laid an egg

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: the White Stripes on The Charlie Rose Show.

What's in store for indie rock and prime time in a post-O.C. universe

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

Bluegrass Alfresco

Hello Emmylou, goodbye heart

The Catheters

Howling...It Grows and Grows!!!

Dead Meadow

Shivering King and Others

Hear This

Detroit's Electric Six fuses state-of-the-'80s funk-wave moves with garage-rock braggadocio

Various Artists

Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

Hear This

White Stripes