White and Brendan Benson's collaboration, completed by the Greenhornes' crack rhythm section, is perfect.  Full text...

Sounds like they had as much fun making it as you're going to have listening to it.  Full text...

Jack White has seemed frustrated with the constraints of The White Stripes for a while now. About an album and a half, if we're keeping score. If The Nurse, the marimba, and Get Behind Me, Satan told us anything, it was that Jack had grown tired of red, white and black, what he really wanted now was a nice pair of tartan slacks.  Full text...

'Broken Boy Soldier's is never going to satisfy anyone looking for a reinvention of the wheels of the lumbering cart of rock & roll, but there's no denying it puts a sheen to the rim, gives a pleasingly smooth ride, and adds some of those nifty luminous sliding things to the spokes.  Full text...

An off-the-cuff collaboration between two friends and one which, despite its imperfections, is an effort worthy of applause.  Full text...

White Stripes fans will have no reason not to love Broken Boy Soldiers—they may just love it a bit less than White's steadier gig.  Full text...

It may be refreshing like an ice-cold soda to see White toe-dipping into new territory, but making the switch from black and white (and red) to living color is thrilling only in the relative sense.  Full text...

An album by a rock star's side project that makes you eager to hear the follow-up.  Full text...

Broken Boy Soldiers is proof that The Raconteurs have stories worth telling. Are you ready for the next chapter?  Full text...

Consider it a lazily scrawled postcard from a friend on sabbatical, and hope he comes back soon.  Full text...

White Stripes mixed with a bass guitar, more electric guitars, and a real drummer. Oh, and more consistency.  Full text...

They're best when the results most closely recall The White Stripes, as on the heavy blues-rock of "Level" and especially "Broken Boy Soldier" itself.  Full text...

Broken Boy Soldiers is proof that the Raconteurs are offering themselves as a tighter garage pop outfit that will be worth scraping together £15 to go see them play live.  Full text...

The song that started it all is “Steady As She Goes”. It kicks off Broken Boy Soldiers, and it’s surely the garage rock anthem of the year: the year’s “C’mon C’mon” or “Seven Nation Army”, with a chorus that explodes out of the fabric of the song, and a fuller sound that helps fill out White’s reedy voice.  Full text...

How Jack lost his stripes and found a friend.  Full text...

Nothing is really very exciting here, or very interesting, and this leaves half-brained questions of aesthetic choice and lazy nostalgia.  Full text...

Never mind.   Full text...