JACK WHITE: NEW YORK, LONDON, PARIS, LOS ANGELES SHOWS CONFIRMED

“AMERICAN EXPRESS UNSTAGED”  LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY APRIL 27 TO BE DIRECTED BY GARY OLDMAN

HEAR BLUNDERBUSS ONE WEEK EARLY ON iTUNES WORLDWIDE

Jack White has confirmed shows in Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles bookending the April 24 release of his debut album Blunderbuss on Third Man Records/Columbia. His April 27 performance at New York City’s iconic Webster Hall will kick off the third year of the acclaimed livestream series “American Express Unstaged,” in partnership with VEVO and YouTube. Directed by the legendary Gary Oldman, the show will be livestreamed at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT at www.youtube.com/JackWhiteVEVO and on mobile devices via VEVO and YouTube apps for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android. A limited number of pre-sale tickets to this event will be available to Third Man Records Vault members tomorrow at 9 AM ET and to American Express Cardmembers starting at 12 noon ET tomorrow.  He will also be performing at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles on April 30, a limited number of pre-sale tickets for this show will also be available to Third Man Records Vault members tomorrow at 9 AM PT, with tickets for both shows going on sale to the public tomorrow at 3 pm local time. To commemorate these events all attendees will receive the gift of an exclusive 18 x 24 inch poster designed by Rob Jones from a photograph by Jo McCaughey.

In addition to these intimate shows celebrating the release of the record, Jack has also signed on as one of the headliners of Lollapalooza 2012, taking place August 3-5 in Chicago. See below for a full list of Jack White live dates.

Blunderbuss is currently available for pre-order at iTunes, where the album can be streamed in its entirety beginning 9 PM PT at http://smarturl.it/blunderbussstream. Also available for purchase at iTunes, and on vinyl from finer recorded music merchants like jackwhiteIII.com andthirdmanrecords.com, are Blunderbuss singles “Love Interruption” and “Sixteen Saltines”–the thoroughly unsettling AG Rojas-directed video for which provides a magnification of the last frontier of urban wasteland and its dispossessed youth left to indulge any impulse, and was likened by Rolling Stone to “The Hunger Games with guitars.”

JACK WHITE
LIVE 2012

04/22/12 — Paris, France — La Cigale
04/23/12 — London UK — HMV Forum
04/27/12 — New York, NY – Webster Hall
04/30/12 — Los Angeles, CA – Mayan Theater
05/15-16/12 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
05/18-20/12 – Gulf Shores, AL – The Hangout Music Fest
05/19/12 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
05/21-22/12 – NY, NY – Roseland Ballroom
05/24/12 – Detroit, MI – Scottish Rite Theater
05/26/12 – George, WA – Sasquatch Music Festival
05/27/12 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
05/28/12 – Eugene, OR – Hult Center for the Performing Arts (Silva Concert Hall)
05/30-31/12 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
06/21/12 – London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton
06/22/12 – London, UK – Hammersmith Apollo
06/23/12 – Hackney Marshes, London, UK – Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend
06/25/12 – Amsterdam, NL – Heineken Music Hall
06/26/12 – Berlin, GER – Tempodrom
06/27/12 – Cologne, GER – E-Werk
06/29/12 -Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
07/01/12 – Belfort, France – Les Eurockeennes
07/02-03/12 – Paris, FR – L’Olympia
07/05/12 – Hamburg, GER – Docks
07/20-22/12 – Dover, Delaware – Firefly Music Festival
07/27-29/12 – Niigata, Japan – Fuji Rock Festival
08/3-5/12 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza