JACK’S BACK
There’s nothing tongue-in-cheek or swaggeringly avant-garde about Jack White’s new single, “Connected by Love.” The song—the lead single from Boarding House Reach (Third Man/Columbia), White’s upcoming third solo album following 2014’s Lazaretto—comes across as a heartfelt, humanistic anthem inspired by these divisive times. In the uplifting lyric, White finds a through line between universal inclusiveness and personal intimacy, underscored by the Pasqual Gutierrez-directed video.
A low-frequency oscillating synth forms the bed of the arrangement, over which a Hammond B-3 churns, joined by a gospel chorale and a brief, blistering guitar solo, setting up the stripped-back, climactic final minute.
Columbia and manager Ian Montone have to be ecstatic about this thrilling, timely piece from one of rock’s latter-day standard bearers.
A second track, the simultaneously released rocker “Respect Commander,” is closer to what we’ve come to expect from this ever-restless, envelope-pushing polymath.
VMAs BEAMING BACK
TO THE BIG APPLE Getting back to where they once belonged (4/24a)
THE COUNT: ALL THE DESERT'S A STAGE
Jon Wayne is rolling over in his grave. (4/24a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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A CHORUS OF PRAISE: IVORS 2024 NOMS
