SAY WHAT!?!?!?! Of COURSE Jack White and Coco are involved in some sort of shenanigans together! Why didn't see see this coming!?!?!
A loyal SKOA reader tipped us about the video above. Apparently everyone's favorite redheaded comedian Conan O'Brien will be performing TOMORROW NIGHT at Third Man Records in Nashville.
Show is 21+ at 8pm.
First come first served.
If you make it to the show we would LOVE to see pics.
We love The Dead Weather because they love their fans so much! Announced today, in exchange for a tweet or a post on Facebook, you get a free download of "Hustle and Cuss" from Sea Of Cowards in addition to being entered in a contest where two lucky winners will each get a pair of VIP passes to Bonnaroo PLUS round trip airfare.
Limit one tweet or Facebook post per person though, so no stuffing the entries you cheaters! I heard through the grapevine that they've already had around 5,000 entries. INTENSE!
JackWhiteJackWhiteJackWhiteJackWhiteJackWhiteJackWhiteJackWhiteJackWhite. We get it, Jack, You're up to a lot these days. Sheesh.
But isn't that why we love him?
NME is reporting that the one of the luckiest ladies in the universe, Jack White's wife Karen Elson, has announced details of her debut solo album, dropping May 27, courtesy of hubby's label Third Man Records.
Stating true to Jack White form of creepiness (see exhibits A and B that we should not speak of, love us Warner Bros!), the album will be titled The Ghost Who Walks.
Per NME's report:
"Elson is said to have written much of the record from inside a closet in her and White's Nashville bedroom."
Her studio band lineup was quite the dream team, too. Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather) on bass, Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket) on pedal steel, Rachelle Garniez on accordion and vocals and Patti Smith's son, Jackson Smith (who is actually her bro-in-law), on guitar.
I am so coveting her life right now.
Be sure to check out the video above for a live acoustic version of the title track, "The Ghost Who Walks". We've also ripped the audio for you so that you don't have to sit on YouTube All day.
Um, so yeah. If you haven't noticed, lovers of all things awesome, we had to take down The Dead Weather stuff we picked up early this morning. We've been getting IMs, tweets, etc all day from everyone and their mother asking us how the HECK we got a hold of "Die By The Drop" and "Old Mary" before apparently the entire music community.
Allow me to explain how this happened and where we are at now.
Rocko and I are super sleuths. We don't have nearly the connections with record labels, etc, that everyone else does so we kind of have to work a bit harder to come up with stories/content since we're still very new to the blogosphere. Typically Rocko gets ahold of certain tracks before I do because things tend to leak overnight and he's in LA and has the time advantage on me. Regardless of who gets what first, we try to keep up with everyone else as best we can that mainly just post what gets sent to them daily.
As Rolling Stone reported (and linked to us in the article!), a lot of people thought that "Die By The Drop" was going to be dropping today. So this morning Charles made his rounds to see if any other sites had new information on when the single was going to be released.
Low and behold, look at what he found:
So Rocko being the music junkie that he was immediately snatched it up as soon as he saw it on Shockhound, thinking maybe the single really was coming out today and everyone else just hadn't put up the listings yet. Based on that, we figured that the tracks would soon be fair game to the internet and thought that it would be okay to at least stream them (making it harder for people to try and steal them).
But apparently that wasn't the case. From the looks of our inbox Warner Brothers Records is not too happy that we believe in the doctrine of "[quasi]-sharing is caring."
Whoops. Heh.
Same was with the video. We found that a little bit later, thinking it couldn't have been a coincedence that the video and the tracks surfaced on the same day.... but it was. Their retailer partners goofed, someone leaked the video, and then Warner Brothers gives us a talkin' to. Womp womp!
Hopefully we can work something out with them so soon enough we can be spreading some Dead Weather love as Sea of Cowards drops in May (as long as all goes according to plan). Rocko and I are HUGE Dead Weather fans. I was at the first public show at Bowery Ballroom (Brooklyn Vegan even used some of my videos to report on it) and have been madly in love with all things Dead Weather ever since.
This just in y'all: the people behind the Air Force Reserves Super Bowl commercial last night are shady as heck. Why, do you ask? Apparently they like to steal credible musicians songs without compensating them.
UPDATE: STATEMENT HAS BEEN UPDATED ON THE THIRD MAN SITE - WE ARE REPLACING THE IMAGE WITH THE PREVIOUS STATEMENT.
And there you have it. I listened to the two back to back several times and you would have to be kidding yourself to not think that's not "Fell In Love With A Girl". That's not a "write around" as they call it in the business where you commission an musician to write and record something that has the "feel" of, say, Coldplay "Viva La Vida" for example. That absolutely sounds like they just re-recorded it.
Pretty messed up, Air Force Reserves. Shady. Shady. Shady.
NME is reporting that Jack White called in his bandmates from The Raconteurs/The Dead Weather to record with The Queen of Rockabilly herself, Wanda Jackson.
According to NME, "[White] has produced the double A-side single 'You Know I'm No Good'/'Shakin' All Over' by the 'Queen Of Rockabilly'. The former song is a cover of the Amy Winehouse, while the latter song was originally recorded by Johnny Kidd And The Pirates."
The single will be released on February 8th courtesy of Third Man Records.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 1:44PM 
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