Jack White is capable of inflicting more compelling strangeness than we get here.

Boarding House Reach is just crazy enough to make it work.

In order to attempt to enjoy most Dead Weather songs one is forced to basically ignore Mosshart.

For this feature, we are tasked to pick the best song from each album in an artist or band’s discography. There can be only one winner. We are confident this is the best of the Jack White, album by album. We are proud to present PLAYLIST: Jack White. “Stop Breaking Down” from The White Stripes (1999) It may be perceived …

[xrr rating=3.75/5]Jack White is rock ‘n’ roll’s mad scientist. In this age of instant consumption, his mystery and mystique has been every bit as important as the notes that come from his guitar. The two sides have always complemented one another, running parallel like a film and its score. But recently, White’s image has shifted to the unenviable position of …

Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. Well before Alison Mosshart spent significant time standing next to Jack White onstage when both were members of the Dead Weather, she got an earful about the band that made his fame. When Mosshart’s band the Kills, in which she collaborates with Jamie Hince, released …

20. Cat Power Sun [Matador] Cat Power’s ninth studio album is filled with unexpected studio flourishes—overdubs, synthesizers, electronic beats—and yet retains all the lyric edge and raw, minor-key emotion that distinguish the best of her work. Sun has moments as introspective as anything in Chan Marshall’s catalog, notably the hangover ruminations of “3,6,9” or the understated rage of “Always on …

25) M.I.A. – “Bad Girls” [Interscope] Originally released by M.I.A. as a 2:13 worldbeat experiment on 2010’s Vicki Leekx mixtape, the extended edit of “Bad Girls” blends the jovial tenacity of the younger performer with the alternative pop sheen the songstress has cultivated in the interim 13 months. True, the song centers on M.I.A. getting banged in the front seat …

(Photos: Jo McCaughey) Everyone always asked the same question when I told them I was going to see Jack White in concert: will it be the girl band or the boy band? No longer shackled by the candy-striped color scheme of the White Stripes, White has surfaced with his first solo record, the excellent Blunderbuss. However, White is still a …

[xrr rating=4.5/5]Blunderbuss, Jack White’s debut solo effort, is full of pleasantly wicked studio effects, melodramatic background vocals and pastiches of forgotten American musical genres. It is a deep, dark record, one that reflects the two major breakups White has recently gone through (his June 2011 divorce from British model Karen Elson and the disintegration of the White Stripes in the …