Brendan Benson

Often it feels as if Benson is trying too hard to wow us in Jack White's absence, says Killian Fox

Brendan Benson is back to the sharply constructed power-pop that he does best, says Dave Simpson

A brilliant new album, a thrilling set, a deliriously happy audience...and all merely a sideshow for Jack White, a guitarist in a class of his own, writes Kitty Empire

For Raconteurs guitarist Brendan Benson, blues has an integrity you just can't fake. Fortunately, it's not too hard to learn the basics ...

CD of the week: The Raconteurs' Consolers of the Lonely

CD of the week: Kitty Empire salutes a terrific album from Jack White and Co that mines the rock, psychedelia and experimental pop of the Sixties.

Newly married he may be, but Jack White has just consummated an old affair. Andrew Perry meets the new men in his life, the blisteringly hot Raconteurs.

... but that didn't stop Brendan Benson from getting together with his pal Jack White in the Raconteurs. They tell Laura Barton how they've left the White Stripes far behind