Category Archives: artists

BAND OF HORSES: NEW SONG SURFACES ONLINE

04/17/2012 nastysite

NEW GLYN JOHNS-PRODUCED ALBUM OUT LATER THIS YEAR

Band Of Horses recently unveiled a new song at a surprise acoustic set played just inside the gates of Lollapalooza Brazil.

The performance was captured on a video by a local blogger and has since turned up–with the title mis-identified as “Long Vows”–at andhttp://odetoboh.net/2012/04/band-of-horses-play-new-song-long-vows-at-lollapalooza-brazil/, among others. The song is currently un-titled.

The new song is the first piece of music to go public from the material Band Of Horses have begun work on with Glyn Johns, who was just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in recognition of his work with The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, The Clash, The Faces and more.

Band Of Horses” fourth record and first with Glyn Johns at the helm will be out later this year. The new record is the first full length Band Of Horses record since 2010″s Infinite Arms, which scored Best of 2010 nods from Rolling Stone, NPR, Filter and more, and was nominated for a Best Alternative Music Album GRAMMY.

Band Of Horses are Ben Bridwell, Creighton Barrett, Ryan Monroe, Bill Reynolds and Tyler Ramsey.

Paul McCartney, Press Releases

RAM Tracklisting Announced Today

04/17/2012 nastysite

Paul and Linda McCartney’s Legendary Album RAM Set for Deluxe Reissue

UK Release: 21st May 2012
US Release: 22nd May 2012

Paul and Linda McCartney’s 1971 album will be released across a variety of formats with new and exclusive content including a beautifully packaged Deluxe Edition Box Set– the ultimate collectable.

Tracklisting confirmed today

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is an album from a long, long time ago, when the world was different. This is an album that is part of my history – it goes back to the wee hills of Scotland where it was formed. It’s an album called RAM. It reminds me of my hippie days and the free attitude with which was created. I hope you’re going to like it, because I do!”
Paul McCartney, 2012

Following the announcement last month that RAM is to be the latest album from Paul’s iconic back catalogue to get the deluxe Paul McCartney Archive Collection treatment, today the full tracklisting of the album is announced.

As with the previous releases in the series, Paul has personally overseen every aspect of the project and the result is spectacular.

The standard release tracklisting is today confirmed as:

Standard Edition
1. Too Many People
2. 3 Legs
3. Ram On
4. Dear Boy
5. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
6. Smile Away
7. Heart Of The Country
8. Monkberry Moon Delight
9. Eat At Home
10. Long Haired Lady
11. Ram On
12. The Back Seat Of My Car

In keeping with the reissue campaign to date, the Deluxe Edition Box Set is the ultimate collectable for any fan of this album. Its stunningly presented 112-page book, photo prints, handwritten lyrics and notes, four CDs and a bonus film DVD, tells the full story of a classic album that has gone down in music history as one of the most revered in McCartney’s catalogue.

The deluxe edition tracklisting is revealed as follows:

CD 1 – Remastered Album (as listed above)

CD 2 – Bonus Audio
1. Another Day
2. Oh Woman, Oh Why
3. Little Woman Love
4. A Love For You (Jon Kelly Mix)
5. Hey Diddle (Dixon Van Winkle Mix)
6. Great Cock And Seagull Race (Dixon Van Winkle Mix)
7. Rode All Night
8. Sunshine Sometime (Earliest Mix)

CD 3 – Remastered Mono Album
1. Too Many People
2. 3 Legs
3. Ram On
4. Dear Boy
5. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
6. Smile Away
7. Heart Of The Country
8. Monkberry Moon Delight
9. Eat At Home
10. Long Haired Lady
11. Ram On
12. The Back Seat Of My Car

CD 4 – Thrillington – Remastered Album
1. Too Many People
2. 3 Legs
3. Ram On
4. Dear Boy
5. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
6. Smile Away
7. Heart Of The Country
8. Monkberry Moon Delight
9. Eat At Home
10. Long Haired Lady
11. The Back Seat Of My Car

DVD – Bonus Film
1. Ramming
2. Heart Of The Country
3. 3 Legs
4. Hey Diddle
5. Eat At Home On Tour
– Menu music features a selection of jingles from the promo disc Brung To Ewe By

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

04/16/2012 nastysite

“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

Paul McCartney, Press Releases

Paul McCartney Directs His Own ‘My Valentine’ Videos

04/15/2012 nastysite

Featuring Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp

Based On An Original Idea By Stella McCartney

World Premiere at Stella McCartney Los Angeles Location Draws Orlando Bloom, Zooey Deschanel, Jane Fonda, Dave, Grohl, Woody Harrelson, Joan Jett, Quincy Jones, Lykki Li, Jeff Lynne, Chris Martin, Gwenyth Paltrow, Kristen Stewart, Reese Witherspoon, members of No Doubt, Foo Fighters & More

This evening at an exclusive screening event at the Stella McCartney store in Los Angeles, Paul McCartney premiered his brand new, self directed videos for his song ‘My Valentine’. The track is one of two original compositions on his new studio album ‘Kisses on the Bottom’, which was released in February of this year and went to Number One on the Billboard Jazz Chart as well as going Top Five across the world.

The gala premiere event hosted by Paul and Stella saw the likes of Orlando Bloom, Jordana Brewster, Julie Delpy, Zooey Deschanel, Jane Fonda, Dave Grohl and Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters, Woody Harrelson, Joan Jett, Quincy Jones, Miranda Kerr, Jason Lewis, Lykke Li, Chris Martin, Jayma Mays, Gwyneth Paltrow, Richard Perry, James Ransone, Amy Smart, Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal of No Doubt, Kristen Stewart, Rumer Willis, Reese Witherspoon and more applauding Paul’s visual interpretations of ‘My Valentine’ featuring Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp each translating the lyrics of the song into sign language–each giving distinctly different performances, making both videos compelling viewing. A third version combined both Natalie and Johnny’s performances into one film.

The videos were shot on 35mm and Paul worked with Academy Award winning cinematographer Wally Pfister (Inception, The Dark Knight), editor Paul Martinez and producer Susanne Preissler to create these elegant and powerful films based on an original idea by Stella McCartney.

‘My Valentine’ is the second Paul McCartney music video Natalie Portman has starred in, the first being the Michel Gondry directed ‘Dance Tonight’ in 2007. For this new performance, she was exclusively dressed by Stella McCartney. Johhny Depp also plays guitar in his version and recorded the track’s guitar solo live. His guitar take was then mixed and mastered into the final track. The original guitar solo on the studio version of the song was performed by Eric Clapton.

‘Kisses on the Bottom’ is a collection of standards Paul grew up listening to in his childhood – plus two brand new McCartney compositions ‘My Valentine’ and ‘Only Our Hearts’. With the help of both Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall and her band, the album was recorded at the legendary Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, as well as locations in New York and London throughout 2011.

Press Releases, Third Man Records

THIRD MAN RECORDS 12TH INSTALLMENT OF VAULT SUBSCRIPTION SERIES

04/09/2012 nastysite

EXCLUSIVE RELEASES FROM THE RACONTEURS, KAREN ELSON & THE WHITE STRIPES

thirdmanrecords.com

The hits just keep on rolling with the 12th installment of Third Man’s Vault subscription series.

First up is a 7” vinyl single featuring two previously unreleased recordings by the Raconteurs from their Consolers of the Lonely sessions. “Open Your Eyes” b/w “You Make a Fool Out of Me” are two songs that would later be re-recorded and repurposed for Brendan Benson solo albums. “Fool” would appear on Benson’s 2009 release My Old Familiar Friend while “Open” has morphed into “Here in the Deadlights” on his upcoming album What Kind of World. The versions on the 7” are not outtakes, demos, B-sides or anything of a cast-off nature. Rather, they are songs that just did not find a spot on the LP.

As Third Man’s own Jack White puts it, “’Open Your Eyes’ sounds like a hit. Seems like it could’ve been released as a single and I can’t remember why it didn’t make the album.”

For the LP component Third Man literally dug into its physical vault and dusted off Karen Elson’s live performance from Third Man on May 24th, 2010. That evening’s performance celebrated the release of Elson’s debut LP The Ghost Who Walks and the live record documents Elson backed by her crack band in a truly ethereal, vibrant recording that breathes a life into the songs that is wholly different from their studio versions.

Paired with this elegant recording is an interactive record sleeve. The front cover depicts Elson in a field of peach with the striking image of her dress is die-cut. Coupled with a specially designed inner-sleeve, the listener can effectively play “dress-up” with four different looks for Elson, depending on the orientation of the sleeve. If that’s not enough, get rid of the sleeve completely and you can arrange the vinyl itself, pressed on split-color peach and black vinyl, to create a 100% unique dress design.

The bonus item for this Vault package is a DVD of the White Stripes titled Under New Zealand Lights. Made up of two different performances by the band on separate trips to the island nation.

The first finds them performing at the King’s Arms in Auckland in November 2000. This is some of the earliest known footage of the White Stripes outside North America (it was their first international tour) and finds them confident and captivating before a unexpecting crowd.

Come October 2003, the White Stripes were slightly more known but still in front of a crowd they had to work considerably to win over. The audience was the student population of Freeman’s Bay Primary School. Jack and Meg provided a nice primer on American blues history and the kids seemed to enjoy themselves in this sweet, innocent performance that has been kept mostly under wraps in the nine years since it took place.

Subscribe now as Third Man will stop accepting orders for this package on April 30th.

http://thirdmanrecords.com

Jack White, Press Releases

JACK WHITE: “SIXTEEN SALTINES” VIDEO NOW PLAYING EXCLUSIVELY AT VEVO & jackwhiteIII.com

04/05/2012 nastysite

(Nashville, TN–April 5, 2012) Having premiered at VEVO, Jack White’s thoroughly unsettling “Sixteen Saltines” video can also be viewed at jackwhiteIII.com.

Directed by AG Rojas, “Sixteen Saltines” is a 180 degree turn from the previous “Love Interruption” video, eschewing that clip’s seductive palette for a magnification of the last frontier of urban wasteland and its dispossessed youth left to indulge any impulse. “Sixteen Saltines” seems to take place in a waking nightmare world outside of time or any kind of rule, a place you’d never want to live–but one you can’t stop visiting.

“Sixteen Saltines” is the second single from Jack White’s forthcoming debut album Blunderbuss, out April 24 on Third Man Records/Columbia and available for pre-order at jackwhiteIII.com.

“Sixteen Saltines” is currently available via iTunes or as a 7″ vinyl single available at your local purveyor of fine music or jackwhiteIII.com. To commemorate Record Store Day on April 21, Jack’s Third Man Records will release a “Sixteen Saltines” 12-inch featuring a George Ingram-designed playable etching of the iconic Third Man logo on the B-side (Jack’s cover of U2’s “Love is Blindness”). The grooves of the record play through the image, making it the world’s first-ever playable etched record ®. An ultra-limited-edition version of the “Sixteen Saltines” 12-inch, also featuring the playable etching, will pressed on clear vinyl–and filled with psychedelic blue liquid. The liquid-filled “Saltines” is the first-ever disc of its kind to be made available to the public–and will only be available at Third Man’s store in Nashville.

Press Releases, Third Man Records

THIRD MAN RECORDS: NO APRIL FOOLS: 1000 JACK WHITE FLEXI DISCS DISTRIBUTED VIA BALLOON LAUNCH

04/02/2012 nastysite

RECORD STORE DAY 2012 RELEASES FROM JACK WHITE, KAREN ELSON, THE WHITE STRIPES & JERRY LEE LEWIS

JACK WHITE LIQUID-FILLED “SIXTEEN SALTINES” 12″ & KAREN ELSON LASER-CUT LACE SPLIT-COLOR DISC

AVAILABLE ONLY FROM THIRD MAN RECORDS IN NASHVILLE ON APRIL 21, 2012

http://thirdmanrecords.com

Three weeks prior to the April 24 release of his debut album Blunderbuss (Third Man Records/Columbia), Third Man Records has premiered the as yet unreleased Jack White album track “Freedom at 21” exclusively via 1000 flexi-disc records attached to helium balloons launched from the label headquarters in Nashville on April 1^st, 2012: http://youtu.be/szoIcNykCc0

Envisioned as an experiment exploring non-traditional forms of record distribution and a way to get records in the hands of people who don”t visit record shops, the label was sure to use biodegradable latex balloons and all-natural twine in the process.

Accompanying the balloons were custom postcards with instructions for the finders to submit photos, discovery location and the date on which the record was found, all of which will be incorporated into a website where fans can access the information at http://thirdmanrecords.com/balloon

Statistics for similar balloon launches show a recovery rate of approximately 10% so it”s quite possible that less than 100 of the 1000 records launched will ever be discovered. Whatever the numbers, the “Freedom at 21” flexi-disc will surely be a highly sought-after collectible for years to come.

Next up, a veritable onslaught of TMR Record Store Day releases marking the April 21 occasion as seen at

JACK WHITE: “SIXTEEN SALTINES” – The12-inch single of Jack White’s “Sixteen Saltines” features a George Ingram-designed playable etching of the iconic Third Man logo on its B-side (Jack”s cover of U2’s “Love is Blindness”). The grooves of the record play through the image, making it the world’s first-ever playable etched record ®.

But there”s a more… a limited-edition version of the “Sixteen Saltines” 12-inch, also featuring the playable etching, is pressed on clear vinyl–and filled with psychedelic blue liquid. The liquid-filled “Saltines” is the first-ever disc of its kind to be made available to the public.

KAREN ELSON: “MILK AND HONEY” – The new single from Karen Elson, a cover of Jackson C. Frank’s “Milk and Honey,” is pressed on milk and honey split-colored vinyl, and also available in a limited edition with a laser-cut lace sleeve. The visual these two elements make when combined together is simply stunning.

THE WHITE STRIPES: “HAND SPRINGS” B/W “RED DEATH AT 6:14” – Third Man will release a red vinyl with black wisps edition of the White Stripes “Hand Springs” and “Red Death at 6:14”, two songs that have been out of print on vinyl for over ten years.

JERRY LEE LEWIS: LIVE AT THIRD MAN – The CD/LP release of Jerry Lee Lewis’ Record Store Day 2011 live performance at Third Man will be available at ANY record store wise enough to have ordered copies for Record Store Day.

The liquid-filled “Sixteen Saltines” and laser-cut lace split-color “Milk And Honey” will ONLY be available from Third Man Records physical location in Nashville (623 7th Ave S) on Record Store Day, April 21st, 2012. The playable etching will also be available from Third Man and a select number of record stores.

Finally, reports of Third Man pressing up the first ever 3 RPM record can be confirmed: Guests at Third Man”s March 8 third anniversary gala were not only treated to a once in a lifetime evening of culinary delights and custom tailored libations, a surprise live performance by Jack White, an opening set by Hell Beach and Greg Cartwright on the wheels of steel… Every guest in attendance left with a 3 RPM LP containing every Blue Series single Third Man has released. The world”s first 3 RPM record is a study in contradictions: Cut at the slowest speed yet playing faster than any other LP, a compilation of 7 inch records packaged like a 12 inch–but in a 12 inch sleeve made, like TMR”s 7 inch sleeves, of one continuous piece of paper folded in half and put into an acetate sleeve, easy to play but impossible to hear, given away from yet impossible to find… You get the idea. Or if you don”t:

Photo Credit: Jo McCaughey
www.nastylittleman.com

Electric Guest, Press Releases

ELECTRIC GUEST UNVEIL NEW WEBSITE: COMPLETE THE PUZZLE TO UNLOCK STREAMS OF BONUS TRACK “JENNY” & ACOUSTIC VERSION OF FIRST SINGLE “THIS HEAD I HOLD”

03/29/2012 nastysite

SECOND LEG OF FIRST EVER NATIONAL TOUR KICKS OFF APRIL 10^th

DANGER MOUSE-PRODUCED DEBUT ALBUM MONDO OUT APRIL 24^th ON DOWNTOWN RECORDS

Electric Guest a/k/a Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton and have just finished up a successful run of live dates including a grand slam slew of performances at this year’s SXSW. Now, as the countdown to the April 24th release of their debut LP Mondo (Downtown Records) begins, the band have revealed a brand new website; an interactive puzzle which once completed unlocks streams of non-LP bonus track “Jenny” and an acoustic version of their first single “This Head I Hold”. Point your browsers towww.electricguest.com to take a stab at unlocking these two aural pleasures.

The album version of the single debuted at #38 last week on the Alternative Radio Charts and is gaining spins by the minute.

Critics took notice of Electric Guest as they made their first visit to Austin’s SXSW where they played several showcases including Filter Magazine’s party and the Third Man Records Texas Stand-Off. The Austin Chronicle predicted “most eyes will be on Electric Guest,” and The Los Angeles Times said “singer Asa Taccone graces the songs with a romantic falsetto,” while Billboard picked up on their “electro-pop flair” citing them as on of the “Top 20 Breakout Bands” at SXSW. Be sure to catch the duo’s rousing live show as they kick off the second leg of their U.S. tour in Visalia, CA on April 10th.

04/10/12 – Visalia, CA – Visalia Fox Theatre
04/25/12 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
04/26/12 – Lawrence, KS – Granada Theatre
04/27/12 – Chicago, IL – Schubas
04/29/12 – Toronto, ON – Underground at The Drake
04/30/12 – Montreal, QC – Il Monotore
05/01/12 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
05/02/12 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
05/04/12 – Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie
05/05/12 – Washington, DC – Rock N Roll Hotel
05/07/12 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
05/08/12 – Baton Rouge, LA – Chelsea’s
05/09/12 – Houston, TX – Fitzgeralds
05/10/12 – Austin, TX – The Parish

Paul McCartney, Press Releases

Paul and Linda McCartney’s Legendary Album RAM Set for Deluxe Reissue

03/22/2012 nastysite

UK Release: 21st May 2012

US Release: 22nd May 2012

Paul and Linda McCartney’s 1971 album will be released across a variety of formats with new and exclusive content including a beautifully packaged Deluxe Edition Box Set– the ultimate collectable

Following the successful recent reissues of McCartney, McCartney II, and this year’s Grammy winner for Best Historical Album Band on the Run, RAM is the latest album from Paul’s iconic back catalogue to get the deluxe Paul McCartney Archive Collection treatment. As with the previous releases in the series, Paul has personally overseen every aspect of the project and the result is spectacular. In keeping with the reissue campaign to date, the Deluxe Edition Box Set is the ultimate collectable for any fan of this album. Its stunningly presented 112-page book, photo prints, handwritten lyrics and notes, four CDs and a bonus film DVD, tells the full story of a classic album that has gone down in music history as one of the most revered in McCartney’s catalogue.

RAM, originally released in May of 1971, is the only album to be credited to both Paul and Linda McCartney and was Paul’s second post-Beatles LP. It was overshadowed at the time by the drama of the dissolution of The Beatles, as played out in the world’s media. The album topped the charts hitting #1 in the UK and #2 in the US. While RAM polarized critics upon its release, music fans and critics alike since have overwhelmingly embraced it, with Rolling Stone, for example, revising their original review up to 4 stars. Recently RAM has enjoyed even further re-appraisal and acknowledgement including a number of tribute albums.

RAM was written by Paul and Linda, mostly at their Scottish farm on the Mull of Kintyre. In the autumn of 1970 they flew to New York to start the recording process. Without a band in place they auditioned and drafted musicians, who included future Wings drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarists David Spinozza and Hugh McCracken.

The band completed the album in early 1971 along with non-album tracks ‘Another Day’ and ‘Oh Woman, Oh Why’ which were released together as Paul’s first post-Beatles single ahead of the release of RAM and became a Top 5 global hit. The multi-disc editions of the RAM reissue include both songs as bonus tracks. The album also gave Paul his first solo US number 1 single with ‘Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey’ and a Grammy win for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists.

RAM was also issued in mono with alternate mixes, which were only made available to radio stations at the time. This version has gone on to become one of the most sought after McCartney collectables. It will now be commercially available for the first time ever on CD as part of the Deluxe Edition as well as a limited run on vinyl.

1977 saw the release of Thrillington, an instrumental interpretation of RAM, which was originally recorded in 1971 at London’s Abbey Road Studios and was arranged by Richard Hewson. It was released under the pseudonym Percy ‘Thrills’ Thrillington, an unknown eccentric socialite who often cropped up in mysterious newspaper classifieds. In reality Percy was a character devised by Paul and Linda. The idea behind it was simply to have some fun and the concept of doing a full orchestral album was an ambition long held by Paul.

The remastering work was done at Abbey Road using the same team who recently remastered the complete Beatles’ catalogue.

RAM will be available across a variety of different formats:

Standard Edition: 1 CD digipak
Single disc, digitally remastered 12- track standard edition

Special Edition: 2 CD digipak
Remastered album and 8-track bonus audio CD including rarities, b-sides and the hit single, “Another Day”.

Deluxe Edition Box Set: 4 CD/1 DVD box set & download
Remastered album, bonus audio CD, remastered Mono album, Thrillington CD, bonus film DVD, 112 page book, 5 prints in vintage style photographic wallet, 8 full size facsimiles of Paul’s original handwritten lyric sheets and mini photographic book of outtakes from the original album cover photo shoot.

Hi-Res: 24bit 96kHz files of the remastered and bonus audio CD, accessed via a download code inserted on a card within the deluxe edition package

Vinyl: 2LP 180gm, gatefold vinyl with download
Remastered album, bonus audio disc plus digital download of all 20 tracks

Limited Edition Mono Vinyl: 1LP
Remastered mono album

Digital: RAM will be available for download across a variation of digital configurations

Jack White, Press Releases

JACK WHITE BLUNDERBUSS PRE-ORDER NOW AVAILABLE ON THE iTUNES STORE

03/20/2012 nastysite

FANS THAT PRE-ORDER ALBUM ON iTUNES INSTANTLY RECEIVE “SIXTEEN SALTINES” TRACK

U.S., UK, EUROPE TOUR DATES ADDED

Jack White’s debut album Blunderbuss is available now as a digital pre-order at the iTunes Store (smarturl.it/jwiiiblunderbuss) and jackwhiteIII.com. Fans who pre-order the album on iTunes will instantly receive a download of “Sixteen Saltines” which is also available today in stores and at jackwhite.thirdmanrecordsstore.com as a vinyl single with a non-LP B-side of Jack’s cover of U2’s “Love Is Blindness.”

Blunderbuss will be released April 24 on Third Man Records/Columbia.

Jack has also added a series of headline dates to an itinerary including already announced appearances at major festivals the world over. The newly announced shows begin with two nights at the Ryman Auditorium in Jack and Third Man Records’ home base of Nashville, TN and include stops in several major US, UK and European cities.

Tomorrow, March 21 a limited amount of tickets for all dates will be available for pre-sale to Vault members starting at 9 am local time and if stock permits, pre-sale tickets for European dates only will then be available to the general public starting at 1 pm local time at http://jackwhiteiii.com/tour-dates/. Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, March 23rd at 9 am local time in Europe and 10 am PT/12 pm CT/1 pm ET for the US dates. For further dates and on sale information, visit jackwhiteIII.com.

May 15 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
May 16 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
May 18-20 Gulf Shores, AL – The Hangout Music Fest
May 19 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
May 21 New York, NY – Roseland Ballroom
May 22 New York, NY – Roseland Ballroom
May 24 Detroit, MI – Scottish Rite Theater
May 26 Quincy, WA – Sasquatch!
May 27 Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
May 28 Eugene, OR – Hult Center for the Performing Arts (Silva Concert Hall)
May 30 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
May 31 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
June 22 London, UK – Hammersmith Apollo
June 23-24 Hackney Marshes, UK – Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend
June 25 Amsterdam, NL – Heineken Music Hall
June 26 Berlin, GER – Tempodrom
June 27 Cologne, GER – E-Werk
June 29 Werchter, BEL – Rock Werchter
July 1 Belfort, FR – Les Eurockeennes
July 2 Paris, FR – L’Olympia
July 5 Hamburg, GER – Docks
July 27-29 Niigata, Japan – Fuji Rock Festival