Jack White starts new musical projects as often as most people brush their teeth. Between his involvement in both The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, not to mention serving as producer for his wife, Karen Elson's upcoming album, White hasn't left much time for his main act, The White Stripes, to begin work on their new studio effort. Thus, in what feels largely like a stopgap measure, highlights from Jack and Meg's 2007 jaunt across Canada sees release as Under Great White Northern Lights (also available in Blu-Ray and regular-ass DVD editions). This should tide over the Stripes' fanbase for the time being and, stopgap or not, it's still The White Stripes playing live and it includes a version of "Black Math." We're in.
Alt-country standard bearers the Drive-By Truckers follow up 2008's overstuffed Brighter Than Creation's Dark with their first effort for ATO Records. Last year's odds and ends collection, The Fine Print: A Collection Of Oddities And Rarities, was actually better than either of their last two proper releases so it'll be interesting to see how this one plays. Early single "This Fucking Job" was a promising start.
The lead singer of UK band Guillemots (who had a few moments of success, what, four or five years ago?) puts out a solo record. Yeah... we're padding the list. It's a light week following last Tuesday's onslaught of releases.
DVDs
Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season
No other network has a track record of original series like AMC does. Granted, their slate consists of exactly two shows but when those shows are Mad Men and Breaking Bad, someone's clearly doing something right. Never has the old adage, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," been more true than in the story of an Albuquerque chemistry teacher who partners with a former student to become a meth kingpin. What started out as a morality tale of a low-wage government employee with terminal cancer doing what he could to provide for his family before checking out has evolved into an examination of the allure of power and influence. One of the most powerful and absorbing series currently airing on television.
Oh, God. There's the twitching again. We're still recovering from seeing the first Twilight debacle a few weeks back. (Look for a rant on that one as soon as we develop our screed into some coherent thoughts.) And to think that some people think that this one was WORSE?! What? Does it actually give you Hepatitis while you watch it?
Screw you. We think this looks interesting. Look... it's a return to the classic Disney animation style in a digital age. Any true film fan has to have at least a passing interest in that.
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