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Since hearing the news of a cancelled tour in September 2007 many White Stripes fans have yearned for more from this mega-duo. The cancellation was due to Meg White acute anxiety, which makes me wonder if this band will ever record another album again. Being a mild fan of the Stripes I’ve got say this maybe was not the best tour to record. The whole set seems a little off and the product quality certainly is mediocre. To recant a bit I feel it is very important to inform my readers that have never seen this band live so therefore my thoughts are clearly based on the sole listening experience of this live record. I find hard to understand that Jack & Meg heard this and  said “ok it sounds great let’s run with it.” Again I do like this band, they are not my favorite band of all time, but even if they were I would not hold back. I am one who enjoys the raw elements of music, but dare I say that “Under Great White Northern Lights” feels and sounds like a bootleg. (more…)

Hear/Say knows vinyl! The newly released Jimi Hendrix “Valleys of Neptune” on 180 gram vinyl contains 12 previously unreleased songs. It is available at the www.hearsay.cc store at a great sale price of $12.99 this week. Two other March vinyl releases also on sale at the Hear/Say store are White Stripes “Under Great White Northern Lights” for $16.99 and Pelican “What We All Come To Need” for $12.99. Watch for more vinyl LPs going on sale this Thursday!

Recorded in the summer of 2007 when The White Stripes toured Canada, Under Great White Northern Lights (Warner Brothers) is the group’s first project since its sixth studio CD Icky Thump. For those who want to see the action firsthand under the direction of Emmett Malloy, consider checking out the DVD edition, though there’s also an audio document on CD and digital download for those preferring just the soundtrack side of the garage rockers’ most recent touring tag team. (more…)

You gotta admit Jack White never wears out his welcome. Right as the White Stripes’ garage blues was catching on, he switched musical gears to put out an eloquent country album with Loretta Lynn. Then, he threw himself into the neo-garage Raconteurs, sharing front man duties with Brendan Benson, playing second fiddle even though he’s clearly the superior guitarist and more charismatic singer. Now, with Dead Weather, which has just issued its debut, Horehound, he’s changed his tack again.

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A pixilated dog that you can make walk to different icons to play different videos, even the menu on this music video collection from director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind) is a work of art unto itself. The collection, the follow-up to 2003’s terrific Gondry music video compilation, doesn’t disappoint either. Now that MTV is devoted to bad reality shows, music videos aren’t produced with the same regularity. That hasn’t stopped Gondry, however. As this set makes clear, he’s been as active as ever in delivering a wide ranging of wildly bizarre videos.

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