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Here's the next category of the MT Buzz Awards! MStars News is taking a closer look at the Best Celebrity Transformation of 2015. Be sure to vote in our poll below, and tell us who you think should win the title! Read More »
The first time Elvis Presley walked into a recording studio was on July 18th, 1953. It was at the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue, the home of Sam Phillips' legendary Sun Records. It was on that day the legend of Elvis was born. During the session he recording the songs "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartache Begin." From there RCA signed Presley to a $40,000 record deal. Those songs will now be surfacing once more as Jack White paid more than $300,000 at an auction to own them. Now that the songs are digitally reissued, he'll be selling them on through his Third Man Records label. Read More »
Reports confirm that Jack White's longtime keyboardist Isaiah "Ikey" Owens was found dead in his hotel room on Tuesday morning (October 14). Details surrounding the 38-year-old musician's tragic death still remain hazy, although TMZ reveals that drugs and alcohol were scattered throughout the room. Read More »
The weekend (9/19-9/20) was full of great music! Friday featured performances by Iggy Azalea, Lorde, John Mayer, Jack White, Run DMC, BANKS, Ron Pope, Bear Hands and Mayer Hawthorne. Read More »
Neil Young's hi-fi audio player/digital music service has already reach it's $800,000 goal on Kickstarter. The mark was reached at 11 p.m. EST Tuesday night, a mere ten hours after the campaign launched. The total currently sits at $1.5 million raised, largely thanks to the ability to pre-order the music player, as well as recieve exclusive artist editions engraved with laser-cut signatures from Tom Petty, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Arcade Fire. Herbie Hancock, Patti Smith, Lenny Kravitz, Norah Jones, Beck, The Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam or the Foo Fighters. Read More »
The Dead Weather have been releasing a stream of single's through member Jack White's Third Man label as part of a long lead-up to a 2015 album. The latest to drop is "Rough Detective." Read More »
Jack White could be dropping a follow-up to Blunderbuss very, very soon. The Third Man Records head was participating in a chat with fans on his label's forums when he casually dropped that he's producing and finishing two albums this month, with one of them being his own. Read More »
Jack White is at his best when he's paying homage to his folk/blues roots, like on the White Stripes early single "We're Going To Be Friends." In stark contrast to the overblown, unhinged guitar sound of his recent solo albums, White performed the back-catalog track accompanied by a fiddle, double bass and banjo during Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating The Music of Inside Llewyn Davis, a star-studded concert surrounding the titular film that raised money for the National Recording Preservation Foundation. Read More »
Third Man Records' final Vault series, subscription based releases have just been announced, revealing new music from Jack White's current bands the Dead Weather and The Raconteurs. The label even released a 30-second clip of the Dead Weather's newest track off of their latest 7-inch entitled "Open Up (That's Enough)." Read More »
Jack White famously had a "Just Divorced" party after he and model/singer Karen Elson split up back in 2011, but he's definitely not celebrating it anymore. His ex-wife has hit the former White Stripes frontman with a restraining order, after mounting behavioral issues led to Elson's decision to file the legal order. One piece of evidence against White is a bizarre e-mail to Elson. In this message he even attacks Black Keys guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach for ripping off his style. Read More »
Up until this point, Jack White has seemed to handle marital splits pretty well. After all, The White Stripes produced its best music long after he and drummer Meg White had divorced. Things are not going so well between him and his last wife, singer-songwriter Karen Elson. White's ex-wife was awarded a restraining order against the guitarist on Monday, it has been revealed. Read More »
Jack White is one of the biggest fans of historical music in the world, and it's a cause he's not afraid to put his money behind. His newest, and biggest, donation was a $200,000 gift to the National Recording Preservation Foundation. White is the first to donate to the cause and he hopes more will follow suit. Read More »
Willie Nelson's Crossroads set premiered Sunday night (June 23) on CMT. The star-studded set was filmed on Nelson's 80th birthday at Jack White's Third Man Records and is available in full below: Read More »
