Chicagoist: Rockin' Our Turntable: The Raconteurs

joshuamellin

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:36:59 -0600

amazing... jack white is the coolest guy on earth - it has to be genius.

TonyB

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:50:28 -0600

It wasn't exactly a 'quiet' release - it's been listed for quite a while. LOL @ the thought of quietly releasing anything these days. The album format is dead. If you're going to release something, give it as much pub as possible. Embrace change... I'll stop now before I go off on a Bob Lefsetz type rant. And if you don't read Lefsetz, you clearly don't have an interest in the industry....

smussy

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:47:13 -0600

i saw the raconteurs, and was absolutely delighted. i was wary, given that i knew one song and kind of thought they pretty much had one song to their catalog, as it were. but their performance was really captivating. it was just some good old rock-n-roll/pop, but sometimes, that's what a grrl needs.

archie manning

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:11:31 -0600

Raconteurs or MMJ? Bad scheduling by Lolla but an easy choice. Good decision.

mich

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:08:33 -0600

ah damn. I stand corrected :)

mich

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:07:33 -0600

They were at lolla in 2006, but I would love if they came back again too... especially since I chose to see My Morning Jacket instead of them. Damn, choices.

Tankboy

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:05:52 -0600

mich, I believe you're thinking of Q101's DJ.

mich

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:03:55 -0600

considering the way Jack White freaked out on that dj at 93xrt last year for playing icky thump before its release, its no wonder he kept the album release so quiet...

archie manning

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:29:35 -0600

Yeah their ACL performance was great, but it was all material off the last album! My impression of this one is that it has 2-3 good songs, maybe. To me, Jack's vocals and guitar seem forced and out of place on a lot of songs. Just let a pop song be a pop song, and Brendan can do that just fine. Just my opinion. Perhaps it will grow on me, I hope so. I think that the bar was set too high by the last one. I still want these guys to come to Lollapalooza!

Registered Guest

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:23:32 -0600

There really needs to be a new style of music called "glues fury." I want to hear it.

Marcus Gilmer

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:20:41 -0600

Definitely good stuff. Their Austin City Limits performance was pretty great as well. The new Gnarls Barkley record was randomly moved up several weeks for release. Between these two examples and Radiohead's surprise announcement of In Rainbows back in the fall, it seems bands are trying to find a way to get the music to fans quicker. Or the labels are just getting that desperate to avoid leaks.