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  Rad Mashup: Lady Gaga vs. Raconteurs

  February 2, 2010 – Yes, the mashup craze came and went, but sometimes it's worth revisiting -- like when a bedroom producer tempers the oft-acerbic rants of Lady Gaga with some badass rock'n'roll. Someone called DJ Lobsterdust has mixed Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" vocals with the crunchy riffage of the Raconteurs debut single, "Steady As She Goes." You can download it here -- at least until the aforementioned Lobsterdust is forced to take it down (as he wa …
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  WATCH: Brendan Benson Performs on SPIN's Rooftop!

  September 1, 2009 – There are few better places to spend a warm summer evening than a rooftop with friends and beers. …
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  Jack White's Label Offers Subscription Service

  July 6, 2009 – Never one to idly embrace the record industry's status quo -- see the Raconteurs' rush-released second album, or the Dead Weather's secret live debut -- Jack White will now offer fans a direct channel to snag exclusive offerings from his budding record label, Third Man [via The Daily Swarm]. Fans of Third Man bands can now join "the Vault," and select one of two membership plans to receive special content that will be updated, accordin …
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  Jack White Plans Solo Album

  June 9, 2009 – Considering Jack White's ever-expanding roster of bands -- the White Stripes, the Raconteurs, and the Dead Weather -- it's completely understandable that he'd crave some alone time. What's surprising, though, is that he'd use that alone time for another musical project. …
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  White Stripes' White Wedding Surprise

  May 27, 2009 – Those White Stripes. They really know how to keep us guessing. First the whole Chinatown-style "are you family members or are you lovers?" mystery, and now this. Earlier this month, news surfaced that Meg White was due to get hitched to Jackson Smith (son of Patti Smith). …
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  Jack White's Dead Weather Announce Tour

  May 11, 2009 – Jack White's new band the Dead Weather will hit the road this summer on a 25-date North American tour in support of their debut album, Horehound, out July 14. …
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  White Stripes Record Songs for New Album

  May 8, 2009 – And the award for best multi-tasker goes to... (drum roll please): Jack White! With his new band the Dead Weather, his other band the Raconteurs, his collaboration with the Dex Romweber Duo, and the grand opening of his brand new Third Man Records complex in Nashville, it's hard to imagine White has time to eat. …
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  Jack White Forms New Band

  March 11, 2009 – Alison Mosshart, vocalist for punk minimalists the Kills, and Jack White have joined forces as the Dead Weather, a new band also featuring White's Raconteurs bandmate Jack Lawrence and Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita. Mosshart will sing, Lawrence will play bass, Fertita will play guitar -- and White will be on drums and vocals. The quartet, which are making their live debut tonight at the opening of White's new Third Man Record …
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  Free Download: Raconteurs Live!

  January 8, 2009 – As SPIN.com saw first hand, the Raconteurs' performance at the 2008 installment of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was truly jaw-dropping in its musicianship and sheer volume. …
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  First Look: The Raconteurs' New Video

  November 12, 2008 – In the just released music video for "Old Enough," a blue grass-tinged ditty off the Raconteurs' new album Consolers of the Lonely, the quartet's 19th century jug-band-lost-in-woods aesthetic is taken to trippy heights courtesy of Los Angeles photographer Autumn de Wilde. Count 'em -- three versions of each member pluck and bang their way through the country skiffle while seemingly lost in a Southern forest. …
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