NEW YORK (Billboard) - Brendan Benson harbors no illusions about why people might know his name. "I've been making records on my own for a long time," the Nashville-based singer-songwriter says, "but it wasn't until the Raconteurs that I experienced real success." The Raconteurs, of course, are the popular garage-rock outfit Benson formed in 2005 with Jack White ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - It all started with a lost voice and a missing tour bus. Alison Mosshart sings for the Kills, the dirty blues-rock band that opened for the Raconteurs last fall, when Jack White lost his voice. White's hoarseness came near the end of a fairly cataclysmic tour for both White and Mosshart; the White Stripes/Raconteurs frontman ...

Jack White and his band the Raconteurs called on Ricky Skaggs to help them record a bluegrass-inspired version of their song "Old Enough." The Nashville-based rock band also brought in country singer Ashley Monroe for the track, which originally appeared on their album "Consolers Of the Lonely." The new ...

JACK WHITE has hit back at media criticism for his decision to rush the release of THE RACONTEURS' second album.
The rockers released Consolers Of The Lonely on 25 March (08) - only three weeks after they finished recording the album.
The decision meant members of the press were not given advance copies to write reviews prior to the LP hitting ...