The Raconteurs

Warm-Up Comics Have the Toughest Job in Comedy

Getting sitcom audiences laughing -- by hook or by crook

Jack White - The Shrine - 8/10/12

Jack White The Shrine 8/10/12 See also: Our review of Jack White at the Wiltern in May Our review of Jack White at the Mayan in April After getting through the prying eyes and loving hands of the security guards at the Shrine last night, one noticed Jack White's rolling record store selling rare ... More >>

Four Reasons Lollapalooza Needs EDM

By Ian Traas See Also:EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit [Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012: The PeopleJustice at Lollapalooza, 8/5/12Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about youWith every year that passes, it feels li ... More >>

Jack White -The Wiltern - 5/30/12

Jack White The Wiltern 5/30/12 See also: *Our slideshow of the performance *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: The Complete List Better than...all of the Dead Weather albums put together. The man who built his career on secrets came to the Wiltern last night. Secret marriages, secret sin ... More >>

Yes, Young Hines Is His Real Name

By William Lamb Unlike Young Jeezy or even Young M.C., Young Hines is the Georgia-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter's real name. A harried nurse scribbled "Young Mr. Hines" on a patient info sheet after Hines, the youngest of seven children, was born. The name stuck. The other things folks t ... More >>

Jack White - Mayan Theater - April 30, 2012

Jack White Mayan Theater 4-30-12 Better than...sex. What do you call it when Axl Rose, Rod Stewart, Gary Oldman and Conan O'Brien converge in downtown Los Angeles on a Monday night? A Jack White show. From the minute he and his all-female backing band The Peacocks hit the stage at 10 last night ... More >>

Music Picks: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Esperanza Spalding, Jack White

Also, the Crystelles, Arturo Sandoval, Backbiter and others

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List

​What makes a terrible band? Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? That and a pair of testicles. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles only in the symbolic sense. Because, even if you're composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneousl ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1 What makes a terrible band? Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? That and a pair of testicles. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles ... More >>

SXSW Day 1: Surprise! Its' Jack White (Again) also Daxx Riggs, Tahiti 80, Free Beer and More

Video by: moreinthemonitor On the first (official) day of SXSW, hipsters awoke to news that Jack White had sprung from a moving truck around noon and played a solo set to a shocked crowd of onlookers, which coincidentally also included celebrities like Aziz Ansari and Alison Mosshart from the Ki ... More >>

Wanda Jackson and Jack White at El Rey Last Night: Live Review

Timothy Norris​ [See also "9 Reasons Wanda Jackson Rules Rockabilly and Beyond" and more photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow "Wanda Jackson feat. Jack White @ El Rey".] What: Wanda Jackson (feat. Jack White) Where: El Rey When: 1/24/11 Wanda Jackson has had three major men in her life--Elvis ... More >>

Music Picks: Sweaters, Jonathan Richman, Hanni El Khatib, Henry Rollins

Also, Aloe Blacc, Maren Parusel, the Greenhornes and others

Live in L.A.: Jack Johnson, Sweethead (and famous friends), Noodles, the Like, War Tapes

Jack Johnson​Surf's up, and so is Jack Johnson's domination of the saleable-sappy-soft-surf singer-songwriter market. The 35-year-old Hawaiian feel-gooder's new album is called "To the Sea" (perhaps you've heard the cloying single "You and Your Heart"), out next week, and that's where Johnson ... More >>

ELEGANTLY SATIRED

Spacerocker Imaad Wasif to Helm Spaceland Residency in February

Spacerocker Imaad Wasif to Helm Spaceland Residency in February

Paul Stanley: Portrait of the Therapeutic Artist

Regent Gets a Makeover for Third Man Pop Up Shop and Free Dead Weather Performance

Regent Gets a Makeover for Third Man Pop Up Shop and Free Dead Weather Performance

It Might Get Loud: Davis Guggenheim’s Guitar Heroes

In director’s new documentary tribute, Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White talk axes, licks and other euphemisms

Art Nightlife — on Wheels

The Dead Weather at the Roxy: Jack White and Alison Mossheart vs. The Cream of the Blues-Rock Canon

The Dead Weather, the new supergroup featuring Jack White of the White Stripes/Raconteurs, Alison Mossheart of the Kills, Dean Furtita of Queens of the Stoneage, and Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs and Greenhornes, arrived at the Roxy last night to make the case whether a blues rock band in the 21st ... More >>

The Year in Nightranger: Farewell to L.A.'s Shuttered Clubs, Greetings to Their Replacements

Photos That Defined 2008: Food, Music, Cobrasnake, Nightranger and Breaking News

Have some time to kill over the holidays while avoiding chit-chat with your second cousin twice removed? Well, why not peruse L.A. Weekly's favorite photos of 2008.  We've broken down this year's most unforgettable images into several categories: Year in Photos, Year in Food, Year in Music, Yea ... More >>

The 25 Best Non Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (M-Z)

Mezzanine Owls-"Snow Globe" Because it never snows in Los Angeles, we're forced to romanticize it. The first draft of "White Christmas," originally chided a spoiled Angeleno,"longing to be up North on December 24," surrounded by sunshine, green grass and swaying palms. The closest you get to w ... More >>

No Age Gets Grammy Nomination?! No, really ...

The morning after the Grammy nominations are announced is usually a pretty harrowing moment for many music fans as we struggle to come to terms with what the rest of America is listening to. And not even in a snobby way; just in an ignorant way. By not listening to pop radio when we're driving (or e ... More >>

Selling Out With the Foo Fighters and Smashing Pumpkins for Corporate Cash

Rock Picks: Pacha Massive, Calexico, Juliana Hatfield

Also, We the People Festival, Temple Bar farewell, Mad Juana and more

Last Night: Jack White Rolls in High Style, The Raconteurs Don't Dissapoint at Greek

Last night, September 22, the Raconteurs rolled into town in high style for a few nights at the Greek, packing plenty of hits and good times to go around.  Openers the Kills took the stage at about 7:30 p.m. with a romp through their minimalist garage rock sound to a not quite full house.  Their r ... More >>

Rock Picks: Digable Planets, Pigeon John, the Wedding Present, Prima Donna

Also, Josh Rouse, the Raconteurs, Chicha Libre and more

The 10 Best Non Hip-Hop Albums of the Half Year

Image Via Natalie Dee In case, you were wondering, I do have a pair of boombox pants and yes, they're quite comfortable. 10. King Khan & The Shrines-The Supreme Genius Of.... (tie) If my review of Khan's Pitchfork Fest set didn't convince you, this interview that ran today should seal the ... More >>

Bonnaroo Crowd Says F*ck You Mister West and Your Awesome Awesomeness

For the dirt on Kayne's five in the morning show and why that didn't go down too well with the kids, let's check in with Sean Maloney at the Nashville Scene. Early word in the press tent was that Kanye West disappointed the 'Roo crew with an untimely, five-o-clock-in-the-fucking-morning set. Rumor ... More >>

Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)

I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of cour ... More >>

Day One in Photos

All photos by Timothy Norris. Vampire Weekend appear in broad daylight, above and below. Kim (or Kelly) Deal of The Breeders Jack White with The Raconteurs

Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract concept of valet parking. Unfortunately, entering Coachella brings me into contact with three of those four food groups as quite often, while wai ... More >>

Coachella Day One: The Raconteurs Stomp the Bejeesus Out of Vampire Weekend

Coachella, Day One It was hard to watch, honestly. There was blood all over the place. The security guys kept pulling Jack White off of Vampire Weekend lead singer Ezra Koenig, but White kept coming, veins popping, eyes way gone and spiraling, guitar sound set to “pummel,” prowling on the main ... More >>

Rock Picks: Coachella, Lynda Carter, Hot Chip

And other shows happening April 24-May 1

Portishead mow us down

Portishead's newly unveiled song, "Machine Gun," rubs your face in change. The mood has shifted from something sexy to something claustrophobic, industrial -- it's dark as in deadly rather than dark as in Eliot Spitzer.

Sticky, icky Goodness

White Stripes get back to their little room

A (Really) Hard Day's Night

Gosling discusses the sexual Internet, life in L.A. and Disappearing Record Label disease

The Gospel According to Cee-Lo

The poet of Gnarls Barkley reveals the broken-but-beating heart of an unlikely hit

Oops! Year-Ended Again!

Rockin� in the Free World

Best Grooves for the Poverty Stricken

Used Country

Waiting for the Black Keys

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