Reminiscent of deeper cuts on the last few White Stripes albums, "Love Interruption" is an unusual but tantalizing lead track.

Nashville singer says she's 'lucky' to have hooked up with ex-White Stripes man

The former White Stripes man talks to Zane Lowe about debut solo album 'Blunderbuss'

With the White Stripes officially in the rearview, it's time for Jack White's solo LP. The record is called Blunderbuss and it's out April 24 via Third Man/Columbia, according to his snazzy new website. Listen to low-key first single "Love Interruption" above.

Marcus Collins gives his reasons for covering The White Stripes and working in the studio with Gary Barlow.

Ex-White Stripes man will release debut solo album 'Blunderbuss' on April 23

Sales figures suggest alternative rock is in a dismal place right now. Will it ever recover? And should we care?

This year's Brit awards will be a melancholy experience for indie fans. The genre's big performers on the evening will be Blur and Noel Gallagher, a pairing that will evoke memories of the 1995 ceremony, when Britpop swept the old guard away, and thus highlight the contrast with the current state of play. The latest issue of Q magazine opens its review of the new Maccabees album with the rhetorical question: "Has there ever been a worse musical climate to be a guitar band in Britain?" The past is another country. The British public buys guitar music there.

Just before Christmas US music writer Eric Harvey compiled a list of sales figures for the top 50 albums in Pitchfork's end-of-year poll, inspiring the Guardian to conduct a similar exercise (see below). Each list prompts much the same conclusion. Of the five albums in Pitchfork's list that sold more than 100,000 copies in the US in 2011 only two (Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes) are indie artists. In the Guardian's top 40 the only alternative acts to pass 100,000 (the benchmark for a gold record) are Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Noah and the Whale, PJ Harvey, Radiohead and Laura Marling.

Of course critics' polls are not an authoritative measure and other indie artists exceeded 100,000 sales in the US (including Wilco, Feist, the Black Keys,...

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The former White Stripes man appears on 'American Pickers'

As previously reported, Jack White made an appearance last night on the History Channel program "American Pickers". (The show involves two goofy guys exploring America, purchasing bizarre antiques.)

Another video to accompany the Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi album Rome has been released, for "Two Against One", a song featuring Jack White. The grim, apocalyptic, surreal video was directed by Chris Milk. He also created the video for the Rome track "Black", and will soon have a hand in its feature film.

Watch the video for "Two Against One" below: