web analytics

Pop Rock Nation

Tag: The Raconteurs

  • Alicia Keys & Jack White Perform For 007: This Could Be Interesting

    I like Alicia Keys. She’s made progressively better albums. She’s certainly good looking. I give her props just for being a contemporary R&B singer who plays an instrument.

    I love Jack White. The White Stripes have one of the most consistent catalogs in rock currently. If you were to pick any band to come of age in the 21st century so far that’s a lock for the rock & roll hall of fame, The White Stripes and Coldplay would probably be it. And I’m willing to forgive that shitty first Raconteurs record (I didn’t even bother with the second one).

    Alicia Keys (photo by Jusez)
    Alicia Keys (photo by Jusez)

    But together? For the theme to the new James Bond movie? Doesn’t that just seem a little…weird?? Well, you’ll get to hear the results of their team-up soon enough. “Another Way To Die”, the theme to the upcoming 007 feature “Quantum of Solace” will hit stores as part of the movie’s soundtrack in late October. Not to say both artists haven’t exercised their collaborative juices before. Keys has worked with everyone from Nas to Christina Aguilera to John Mayer, while White produced Loretta Lynn’s comeback album “Van Lear Rose” and was behind the boards (and behind the guitar) for “Go It Alone”, one of the best songs on Beck’s “Guero” album. I guess soon we’ll see if these two great tastes wind up tasting (sounding) great together.

    OK, Alicia got the pic. Jack, you get the video. Fair?

  • Music New Releases 3/25/08: Cornering The Market On Silly Band Names

    OK, so both me and GG are out of town this week, so the next couple of entries might be rushed and short…sorta like the one I’m about to write.

    This week’s most interesting new release isn’t actually coming out this week…Gnarls Barkley’s “The Odd Couple” was suddenly pushed up from it’s initial mid-April street date to…sometime last week. Retailers were instructed to sell the record as soon as they got it. At any rate, it should be out everywhere by now (I have my copy) and because Cee-Lo is one of those guys who seems to be incapable of making an uninteresting album, you should check it out.

    Also out this week, the new album from the Jack White/Brendan Benson side project The Raconteurs (which hopefully is better than their shitty first album), the sophomore effort from Panic! At The Disco (who are now Panic At The Disco…the most inexplicably idiotic name change since Matchbox 20 became matchbox twenty), Diddy’s new vocal group Day26 (coming from the latest season of “Making The Band”), the first album from Counting Crows in something like half a decade, AND “Funplex”, the first new album from the B-52’s since 1991!!!

    Sorry for the condensed version, but I gotta run: Happy Shopping!!