The Raconteurs will return from hiatus with first new music in 10 years

It looks like one of Jack White's past bands is getting back together. (No, it's not the White Stripes, but we can dream, right?)

The Raconteurs — White's side project featuring co-frontman Brendan Benson, along with Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler of the Greenhornes — is expected to release new music next year, according to White's label, Third Man Records.

It's the band's first material in more than a decade, following 2006's Broken Boy Soldiers and 2008's Consolers of the Lonely. The latter will be reissued as a limited-edition package as part of Third Man's "Vault" subscription service, which includes a single with two new songs from the band's forthcoming album.

The band was last active in 2011, when it played a handful of shows including the one-off MI Fest at Michigan International Speedway. In the meantime, White has been busy with a solo career and his other band with Lawrence and Keeler, the Dead Weather.


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