Third Man Records

The past two years (since we started Third Man Records) we’ve tried to do something extraordinary for Austin TX’s South By Southwest festival. Year One we took over part of our favorite Austin restaurant, FRANK, and brought you Texas Sized vinyl (that’s 13” LPs and 8” 45s) and a one of a kind pop up shop. Year Two we introduced our Rolling Record Store with live performances from Jack White and Seasick Steve.

This year we thought we’d try and do something we’ve never done before at SXSW. A showcase. Yes, we resisted it the first two years, but this year the temptation was just TOO strong. So without any further ado, it is our extreme pleasure to announce The Third Man Records Texas Show Down at The Stage in Austin, TX on March 16th. Featuring your favorite Third Man acts, friends of the label, and bands we just frankly really like that we’d love you to check out.

Our friends over at Nasty Little Man and From The Basement helped us put this whole thing together, and for that we thank them.

The Rolling Record store will also be in Austin again this year; dealing out records, exclusive goods and some brand new SXSW-only Rolling Record Store merchandise. Check the Rolling Record Store twitter account for locations as we move around the city throughout the festival. It’s first appearance will be Wed the 14th.

Third Man Records at SXSW
Texas Showdown
The Stage on 6th
Friday, March 16th First band on at 7:30

Featuring these Third Man recording artists:

JACK WHITE
KAREN ELSON
JOHN REILLY & FRIENDS (FEATURING BECKY STARK & TOM BROSSEAU)
THE BLACK BELLES
PUJOL
LANIE LANE

Watch Jack perform "Love Interruption" with an all female band and "Sixteen Saltines" with an all male band on last night's episode of Saturday Night Live...

Physical CD pre-orders of Blunderbuss are now available in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands, Denmark and Italy. More countries will continue to be added, but in the meantime everyone can pre-order their copy of the Third Man Records released full length vinyl from the web store.

Don't forget to tune into Saturday Night Live on March 3rd to watch Jack perform two songs off the new album!

WFMU Freeform Radio out of New Jersey is a national treasure of the airwaves. Always on the cutting edge of new music, lost gems and talk radio as well as hosting a blog jam packed with pop culture miscellany and music history, WFMU is a music lovers Shangri-la.

They’re in the middle of their yearly pledge marathon and as listener donations are their bread and butter we wanted to help out our favorite DIY station with some incentives from the TMR archives. Read on below for all the info on what’s available from the Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T show tomorrow, and check out more about the WFMU marathon HERE.

The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T is doing its second and final marathon show for the WFMU fundraiser. WFMU is a listener-sponsored station and we make our operating budget through our marathon.

Terre will be drawing for a Third Man grand prize consisting of a Jack White "Love Interruption" test pressing, a School and Choirs at Third Man 7" and some CD singles for anybody who pledges $500 or more DURING HER SHOW on Saturday March 3rd from 3-6 PM EST. You can pledge by calling 800-989-9368 or going to wfmu.org ONLY DURING HER SHOW!

Physical copies of Jack White's debut album Blunderbuss are now available to pre-order in select countries. You can pre-order at our web store whilst the CD is currently available to pre-order in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden. Stay tuned for pre-orders in additional countries as they become available in the coming days.

We're happy to announce that Jack White will be performing at Rock Werchter in Werchter, Belgium on June 29th, tickets are on sale now.