Beck's 'Song Reader' to become an album by various artists

From Vulture:

Beck's 2012 sheet-music collection Song Reader is finally being made into a studio album — just not by Beck. Each of the 20 tracks will be performed by a different artist, including Jack White, Jack Black, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, fun., Laura Marling, and Norah Jones, with Beck performing only one of the songs, "Heaven's Ladder." "Like a kid getting a special package in the mail and opening it up with anticipation, these interpretations of songs from the Song Reader book have surpassed what I could have imagined when putting the book together," said Beck, who co-produced the compilation alongside Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese's music supervisor Randall Poster. "The book addressed the idea of a song in its most elemental form, letting others give it a voice. It amazes me to hear how these musicians have made the songs their own and in the process revealed that the interpretation is the living breathing soul of the piece. These interpretations have made the book something new, something better." We guess Anne Hathaway and Jenny Lewis's rendition didn't make the cut?

Jack White's new single to be released on an X-ray

Jack White has teamed up with Butthole Surfer's frontman Gibby Haynes to record 3 new songs for a single. The 7" single will be pressed onto actual medical X-rays, and produced in limited quantities. I've yet to hear any of the 3 songs, but if they're anything like Jack White's solo effort than I could see these selling strictly for the "X-ray" factor.

via Uproxx

One word review of Jack White's "Blunderbuss"

Meh.

Sixteen Saltines

Hear the latest track from Jack White's solo album, Blunderbuss, dropping April 24th.

A Jack White solo album is in the works

It'll be called Blunderbuss, and I for one am definitely excited for it.  The White Stripes were fantastic, The Raconteurs were great, and The Dead Weather, though weird, were good.  Jack White is certainly a talented musician (think Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, etc) and it will be interesting to see how an album done completely by him will turn out.  The album drops April 24th, and in the meantime you can hear the single "Love Interruption".