The Third Men Podcast

The Third Men Podcast is proud to present an all-new exclusive extended interview with legendary Detroit rock powerhouse Thomas Jackson Potter! Jack White fans know Tom for many projects over the years, such as membership in The Dirtbombs, prominent inclusion on Jack's Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit compilation and most notably as the frontman for Detroit's quintessential two-piece rock group BANTAM ROOSTER. Like the Flat Duo Jets before them, Bantam Rooster blazed the trail for two-piece potential in the rock world, and paved the way for The White Stripes in the years that followed. Tom's electrifying guitar sound is the perfect blend of high-energy rock and carefully crafted melody, and his extraordinary talents can be heard on countless records from the 80's, 90's and beyond - including the now-classic Ultraglide in Black LP from The Dirtbombs and Bantam's 2000 Sympathy release F*ck All Y'All. As friend and collaborator with artists such as Jack White, Mick Collins and Jim Diamond, Tom helped define the Det

Don't touch that dial, the Third Men Podcast is back with an all-new installment of Trash Tongue Television! In this ongoing series, we explore Jack White's television appearances over the years, and in part three we're casting the spotlight on late night talk shows! Jack's no stranger to late night TV, with tastemakers like Conan O'Brien significantly helping catapult the White Stripes to fame at the turn of the millennium. But Conan camaraderie is only one piece of the puzzle, appearances on the couches of David Letterman, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon helped keep Jack's music in the homes of millions of Americans over the last 15+ years. We turn our attention to these three hosts and cover it all, including conversation and performances from The White Stripes, The Dead Weather, collaborations and solo material from the Late Show, the Tonight Show and more! Plus: we're joined by third man of the week Ben Karns who helps us answer YOUR listener questions! Lots of fun, a few too many monologues and sa

It’s five on the live, and we’ll be taking time to review our favorite Jack White live cuts featuring guest performers! In this all-new installment of our continuing series, your humble co-hosts have picked through decades of concerts both large and small to find our five favorite performances from Jack White with (or as) a special guest musician! Fortunately for us there's a lot of shows to choose from, with guests ranging from rock legends, to key influences, to contemporaries and beyond. Of course the grandaddy of them all occurred in 2015 when the Lazaretto touring band were joined on stage by the last member of Led Zeppelin Jack had still yet to play with: Mr. Robert Plant. That tour united many a musician in song, including Q Tip for an electric performance at Madison Square Garden, as well as both Beck and Sean Ono Lennon! From there we journey to Lake Wobegon for the one and only live performance by both Jack White and Margo Price, before heading back to Third Man in Nashville to witness an incredible

Why listen to a podcast? Easy! Because it's the Third Men podcast back with the epic conclusion to our Boarding House Reach release coverage! I know, it feels like we've been over and over and over this topic, but we've got some really awesome last tidbits on this very exciting time to be a Jack White fan that we know you're all going to enjoy! First up we're joined by not one, not two but THREE different sets of "third people" this week to discuss Jack's first set of BHR pre-tour live shows! Kali Durga and Yvette Wilkins are here to talk the Nashville Blue Room, Tom Valente joins us to talk the Mayan in Los Angeles, and finally Arielle Kaminski talks us through her first-ever Jack White concert at the Warsaw in Brooklyn! Next we bring you some album reception, along with our own personal reviews of the new record and followed by some final thoughts from Jack on the BHR release. Lastly we're honored to welcome a very special guest, Emmy Award-winning artist Dean Haspiel, who shares with us his own review of t

Who’s with us?! We hope you will be, because the Third Men podcast is back with part two of our three-part Boarding House Reach coverage, and this week we go track by track into the nitty gritty of this wild new Jack White LP! We dive deep into each track with an in-depth compilation of interviews, tastemaker reviews and detailed analysis to paint the most complete picture possible of how each song on this album came to be. From the anthemic “Corporation” and “Connected by Love”, to the hip-hop infused “Ice Station Zebra” to the many beautiful variations of the funk-groove powerhouse “Get In The Mind Shaft” – we cover it all in our longest episode to date! But don’t just take it from us, this week we present a very special Third People segment where we asked YOU the listener to give us your own personal review of the record – and your feedback proved to be a fascinating look at just how varied the reactions to this record can be. So sit back, relax, buy up some empty lots and copy yourself some God, because t

Hello. Welcome to The Third Men podcast. Brought to you by...Boarding House Reach! Get connected with us as we celebrate the end of the great Jack Drought and begin our analysis and review of the all-new Jack White album, Boarding House Reach. Is it wild? Yes. Is it crazy? Yes. Is it divisive? Yes. (NO!) Is it a dramatic departure from the albums that have come before? You better believe it. This week we take an extended deep dive into just how this record came to be, from inception to execution to release and beyond - it's a Jack White journey like you've never heard before! Using up-to-the-minute interviews and reviews from the current promotional cycle, we here at the Third Men podcast are bringing you the most in-depth coverage possible of this very very exciting time to be a Third-Fan - and we're only just getting started! All this, plus a special visit from Los Angeles artists Erin Gallagher and Tom Valente who help us detail TMR recording artist Margo Price's triumphant return to the LA stage! If you h

s the world waits for a new Jack White album with a drastically different sound, The Third Men Podcast looks back at the last drastic departure for Jack White: The Dead Weather. Following the towering success of both the long-established White Stripes and the hit-making "super"-group The Raconteurs, the last thing anyone expected Jack White to do was to launch a third group in which he would take a back seat to a front woman whose charism could easily match his own. It's the kind of left turn that gave us the Dead Weather, the psychedelic goth-rock that divided fans and baffled listeners nearly a decade before "Boarding House Reach". In this episode we take a look at how Jack rolled this new group out, and the steps a growing (and learning) Third Man Records took as a newly-christened storefront and self-supporting record label, to a stumbled LP release and premature concert dates! Also in this episode we're joined by Third Man of the week, musician, singer and songwriter Connor Flynn, aka Black Jack Davey, w

The British Invasion strikes Detroit! This week we discuss the musical influence and connectivity between Jack White and the two biggest bands of modern rock'n'roll: The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. While the delta blues singers of the 30's and the garage punkers of the 80's may have had a more direct influence of his sound and aesthetic, there's no doubt that Jack is the torch-bearer for the acts that defined the genre. The "old guard" was quick to embrace The White stripes as a continuation of a legacy that kicked into high gear when Britain's own John, Paul, George and Ringo touched down in New York City one chilly February morning in 1964, igniting a mania that lives on to this day. We explore the many connections between Jack and these two acts, and have enlisted some help in the process! That's right, this week is our very first PODCAST CROSSOVER as we sit down for an extended chat with the "Take it Away" podcast's Ryan Brady to talk Jack White, The Beatles, and just how many Denny Laine puns we can

The Third Men Podcast is proud to present an all-new exclusive extended interview with a Rock'n'Roll legend, the one and only Mick Collins! Jack White fans know Mick for many things, but first and foremost as a founding member of one of the most influential rock bands to ever tear up a stage, The Gories. Every major movement stands on the shoulders of the giants who came before, and the Detroit rock revival that catapulted Jack White to stardom was a culmination of decades of visionary artistry from acts like The Stooges, MC5 and the high energy, blues/punk-infused sound that Mick Collins, Dan Kroha and Peggy O'Neill created. It's a tough act to follow, but follow it Mick did with the foundation of a new art project that would evolve into White Stripes contemporaries The Dirtbombs. With such members as TMR co-founder Ben Blackwell, Raconteur Patrick Keeler and former White Stripes producer Jim Diamond, this new band's connections to the Third Man Records universe run deep, and the group stands amongst the mos

It's an ooey-gooey-podcast-ka-blooey this week as we celebrate the lifeblood of Detroit Rock'n'Roll: the indomitable DIRTBOMBS! In the mid-nineties the music scene echoing out from the Cass Corridor was truly kicking into high gear. Groups like Bantam Rooster, Rocket 455, The Go and, of course, The White Stripes began to take shape, standing on the shoulders of legendary groups such as The Stooges and The Gories. When Gorie virtuoso Mick Collins started his next musical project in the primordial rock soup of 1996 Detroit, something special was bound to happen, and happen it did. Enter: The Dirtbombs - a revolving cast of quintessential voices in the rock revival and home base for such Third Man staples as Ben Blackwell, Jim Diamond, Patrick Keeler, E Wolf and many, many more. This week we cover the band's inception and discography, and are joined by Dirtbomb super-fan Kate McCoy for an unforgettable interview that ends with a surprise TOO INSANE to type here. You're just going to have to listen to find out. T

We got a letter this morning, what do you reckon it read? It said hurry hurry and listen to the Third Men Podcast! This week our all-new album analysis and review of the White Stripes sophomore LP release, De Stijl, comes to its epic conclusion! In the spring of 2000 Jack and Meg White had a handful of singles, a debut LP, some local rock and roll stardom and a couple of day jobs under their belts on the chilly streets of Detroit – but all of that was about to change. The married duo that had baffled so many with their color schemes and brother/sister mythology found their real-life relationship at an end, and their musical path at a crossroads. This is the environment that would bring out one of the most colorful, hard-edged blues/pop records to grace the new millennium, and the last big step in the direction of the kind of fame there would be no turning back from for the White Stripes. In part two of our two-part coverage, we explore from Death Letter and beyond, going through track-by-track and uncovering

We're a pretty good listen (for a podcast), so build a home around our all-new album analysis and review of the White Stripes sophomore LP release: De Stijl! In the spring of 2000 Jack and Meg White had a handful of singles, a debut LP, some local rock and roll stardom and a couple of day jobs under their belts on the chilly streets of Detroit - but all of that was about to change. The married duo that had baffled so many with their color schemes and brother/sister mythology found their real-life relationship at an end, and their musical path at a crossroads. This is the environment that would bring out one of the most colorful, hard-edged blues/pop records to grace the new millennium, and the last big step in the direction of the kind of fame there would be no turning back from for the White Stripes. This episode we begin our discussion with a background of the album, it's title and cover, and insight into the opening salvo of blistering tracks that turned the rock world to black, white and red. Plus, as thi

Happy New Year! Pop some champagne and join us for some servings and portions of a look back at a year called 2017. It was a wild year of special events and anticipation, and once again the Third Man family grew in size and scope like never before. From the opening of TMR Pressing in the Cass Corridor, to album releases from the extraordinary talents of artists such as Lillie Mae and Margo Price, to new Jack White music and the promise of a brand new record, 2017 was a busy year for both fans and talent alike! On this episode we cover it all, plus Third Woman Yvette Wilkins joins us to discuss her and fellow Third Woman in spirit Kali Durga's trip underground for the 333ft Underground show in the Cumberland Caverns. We here at the Third Men podcast want to thank all of you listeners out there for joining us this past year, and we hope you'll join us once again for this special celebration of 2017! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Third Men Podcast is proud to present an all-new exclusive extended interview with singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-producer/engineer of The White Stripes eponymous debut album, Jim Diamond! As Detroit experienced its nearly-unprecedented garage rock renaissance in the ladder half of the 90's, one studio acted as the epicenter of talent and innovation among the key talents of the movement more than any other: Jim Diamond's Ghetto Recorders. If the Gold Dollar was the petri dish for Detroit's sound, Ghetto Recorders was the microscope. The Dirtbombs, The Von Bondies, The Electric Six and many more turned to Jim's studio and production abilities to bring out their best, most honest sound possible. When it was time for Jack and Meg White to put their great rock experiment to tape, The White Stripes, too, found a home at the house that Diamond built. This episode, Jim gives us the scoop on everything from his own musical beginnings, to recording the White Stripes, to bass guitar with Dirtbomb

Carl Butterball proudly presents, the Third Men Podcast's "Thank You, Jack White 2017" Thanksgiving Spectacular! For the second year running we go over all things Jack White as they relate to Thanksgiving, including this year's TMR Turkey drive, Jack's songwriting fowl of choice, Pokey Lafarge's famous sweet potatoes and an unexpected connection to Sub Pop to name but a few! Like any great gathering of relatives, it's gonna be a weird, mostly drunk experience unlike any other - and we mustn't forget the dramatic return of Mama LaFarge (which we're compelled to expressly state is not the actual Mama LaFarge)! Plus, we sit down with Detroit artist Joe Lalich to talk about music, what it's like having art on display at TMR Cass, and a special "fell in love with a show" recounting of seeing Jack White at the "We're Gonna Be Friends" B&N signing in Los Angeles earlier this month! So much to be thankful for, and we especially thank you for listening and hope you enjoy the new episode! See acast.com/privacy for

The Third Men Podcast is proud to present an all-new exclusive extended interview with Warstic founder and current Jack White business partner Ben Jenkins! In the spring of 2016 it was announced that noted baseball fan Jack White would be entering the business side of the the game alongside Detroit Tigers infielder Ian Kinsler. The two became principle investors in Warstic, a quality and design-driven  company founded by former minor league player and One Fast Buffalo graphic design powerhouse Ben Jenkins. Since then, this partnership has lead to the announcement of a storefront opening, an amazing short film, and the first new original music from Jack White in years! Ben was kind enough to give us the low-down on his history with baseball, music, art and the formation of the Warstic brand we know today. We here at the Third Men podcast would like to thank Ben for dropping in to the show– it was a pleasure interviewing him and we hope you all enjoy it as much as we did! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and o

What's the most terrifying fright to behold this Halloween? Why, it's the return of the Third Men Podcast with ALL-NEW material! Um, spoooooooky material! That's right, it's our second annual Halloween Special where we cover some genuinely terrifying topics as they pertain to Jack White and Third Man Records - and this year we've got something special for your candy sack. First up, we've created a custom Third Man & related Halloween LP, with Wolfman-connected songs on one side, and Frankenstein-connected songs on the other! The references to these two monsters (although to be fair, we don't know them they could be pretty cool guys on the inside) in TMR lore is surprisingly abundant, and there's a whole lot of spooky to unpack there. Plus, we sit down with Julia and Tobias from the band After The Money Is Gone to talk about their group, the City of Detroit, and what it was like being the first non-TMR group to be pressed at Third Man Pressing! We're stoked to be back and hope you all have a happy Hallowee

Join the Third Men Podcast as we take a look back at some of the highlights from our guests' most memorable concert moments! While your co-hosts prepare the slate of new episodes for this coming year, we’ve prepared a special “best of” trilogy, wherein we highlight a different portion of the show each week! And this week we conclude our trilogy with our favorite concert recollections, a segment of the podcast we call "Fell in Love with A Show"! We love talking to a new guest each week, and between those guests we've amassed quite a collection of cool concert moments -- from the White Stripes in Brooklyn, to magic at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC, to encounters with Lillie Mae, Margo Price and more we present to you the highlights! Plus a new concert recollection of Lillie Mae's most recent visit to Los Angeles and some exclusive audio from the show. We hope you enjoy this week’s look back, thank you to everyone who has supported the show this past year, and hope you enjoy our all-new content returning next wee

Join the Third Men Podcast as we take a look back at some of the highlights from this past year’s strangest moments! While your co-hosts prepare the slate of new episodes for this coming year, we’ve prepared a special “best of” trilogy, wherein we highlight a different portion of the show each week! And this week we shine a light on the strange, the unusual...all of the pretty, those pretty little rags and bones! We run across a lot of crazy, out-of-the-ordinary facts in our research of a given topic. Like the time Madonna heckled Jack White from her own concert stage, or the time the Raconteurs covered a song by the American south's most dysfunctional, satan-fearing folk duo the Louvin Brothers. When these moments pop up we put them in their own little portion of the show... a special home for them that we like to call Rag and Bone. So in case you were wondering what the American Pickers' favorite Jack White song was, or if you had an itchin' to explore a mausoleum in the North Carolinian woods, this episode

Join the Third Men Podcast as we take a look back at some of the highlights from this past year's extended interview episodes! While your co-hosts prepare the slate of new episodes for this coming year, we've prepared a special "best of" trilogy, wherein we highlight a different portion of the show each week! And what better way to start than with showcasing some of the actual, real-live Third-Man-Records-affiliated guests we've had the pleasure of interviewing for the podcast! Such guests include Jack White's childhood friend and bassist Dominic Davis; longtime TMR studio and touring musician Fats Kaplin; Nearsys founder and TMR's Near Space Ballooning consultant for the Icarus Project Paul Verhage; Grammy-winning Artist and legendary graphic designer with Jack White and TMR for over a decade Rob Jones; and fellow touring musician, TMR artist/graphic designer and Elephant contributor Bruce Brand! We hope you enjoy this week's look back, and thank you to everyone who has supported the show this past year! See