INCREDIBLY, A JACK WHITE PROJECT THAT DOESN’T TOTALLY BORE THE CRAP OUTTA ME
Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 3:00pm by Gary Suarez
It seems that all the hip music blogs were all a-twitter yesterday about the latest side-project from Jack White. Yet unlike The White Stripes or The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather actually sounds pretty darn good. Unlike with those other projects, Mr. White steps away from the spotlight and plays the drums. His fellow Raconteur Jack Lawrence handles the bass and Queens Of The Stone Age member Dean Fertita is the axeman, but the real star of the show is singer Allison Mosshart of the staggeringly good duo The Kills.
Boasting a sleazy swagger not heard since the days of Boss Hog (Mosshart’s performance draws a natural comparison to that of Cristina Martinez), “Hang You From The Heavens” comes off the band’s forthcoming Horehound LP, due out this June on Third Mind Records. Thanks to the magic of the Internet, you can download this new song (alongside a less-awesome cover of Gary Numan’s “Are Friends Electric?”) right now via iTunes or listen to it in its entirety as much as you’d like on the band’s homepage.
-GS
[Gary Suarez is on the Amy Winehouse diet. He also writes for Brainwashed and usually manages the consistently off-topic No Yoko No.]
The White Stripes are nothing but a gimmick band at this point, but The Raconteurs are awesome, best live show I saw all year (next to Dan Auerbach)
They look like every Williamsburg, Brooklyn shithead
Why would you want Jack White out of the spotlight? He’s one of the best guitarists in the world today, regardless of his simplicity or eccentricity. A lot more talented and innovative than most metal guitarists in my opinion, at least he mixes things up every now and then yet retains a distinctive tone. Powerful, emotional, not exactly technical, not doing anything that hasn’t been done before but doing it well with his own spin, Jack White is instantly recognizable for his guitar sound and there aren’t many that have that kind of instant recognition. That being said, this project does still interest me because the lineup looks pretty awesome. Not exactly a supergroup but definitely some great musicians in there.
the raconteurs are far from boring, one of the best rock bands out there right now
Why the fuck is this on the website?
i see a lot of people jumping to the raconteurs defense, but…
since when were the white stripes boring?
i suppose it’s cool to pick at jack white for being music journalism’s darling, but the white stripes are probably the most consistent active band. every album has its own distinguishable sound, they have an awesome live show, jack white is an exciting guitarist, and they sell records and don’t suck. what is there to hate?
Basically popularity is what dictates what you can and can’t like, for instance, Vince, is allowed to like Stereomud, Shinedown, and Sevendust because age regardless, they’ve never been very popular.
Anyway, seems everything you like I hate here at MSucks, so we’ll see, listen to this here…
I dunno, this stuff is always too pretentious for me to get a grip on the music and decide if I like it or not, no real opinion here.
I enjoy the off-topicness and this band actually
Goddamn you hipsters. This is why metalsucks, because you goddamn fucking hipster shithead losers peddle your craprock. Fuck off already.
@Revrant:
Shinedown is pretty popular, dude-bro. turned on the radio lately? Also, we shit on nu-metal bands way less popular than any of the ones you mentioned, like Dope. Just admit you like bad music and be done with it already!
It’s nice to see some love thrown to The Kills. Thank you (and this site) for spotlighting music that fucking rocks, even if it’s not “metal”…
despite the weak rendition of one of my favourite Gary Numan songs, this seems like it’s going to be great.
@ Ah
maybe just to make you ask that question.
what a tard.
The Kills are great.
Ha, dude-bro? I don’t have pot, a backwards baseball cap, khakis, or flip flops over here.
Indeed, sort of confusing, they all suck ass, yet you single some of them out and decide they’re good for reasons that escape us, the readers.
Nuh uh, and you can’t tempt me with “I will too”, you already did. ;)
Yeah that’s actually Brendan Benson playing bass with this band. I only know that because that dude has been using that hang dog expression with those shitty glasses for about 10 years in the Detroit area rock scene. It’s a good thing he got hooked up with Jack White, otherwise he was going to end up like the Dirtbombs or the D. Cobras.
@Vince Neilstein:
It is kind of amusing to find anyone on this site claiming someone else has bad taste in music, considering how much propaganda pours out of this blog for shitty, screaming metal bands. I can’t count how many bands have been ruined by screaming vocalists. That’s saying something, considering I like Dave Mustaine’s “singing”.
It will be nice when this current trend of IjusthadmyballsrippedoffandI’mgoingtorecordit vocalists die off and are replaced by people who can actually carrying a tune.