▼ Music Making Room Jack White extends his Supply Chain Issues Tour, adds Miami stop in September. BY JOSE D. DURAN I n December, Jack White announced his Supply Chain Issues Tour, which kicked off in April in his hometown of Detroit. He’s now in the midst of the tour’s Eu- ropean leg, after which he’ll head back across the Atlantic to play additional U.S. shows. It seems the former White Stripes mem- ber is in the mood to keep traveling. He just announced 17 new dates that will see him perform across the South and Southwest, then head to Mexico and South America. The new dates include three Florida shows — in St. Augustine, Orlando, and Miami, where he’ll play at the James L. Knight Center on Tuesday, September 20. Miami-based singer- songwriter Cat Power will open for White at all the Florida shows. In April, White released his fourth solo al- bum, Fear of the Dawn, but he isn’t done for the year. His follow-up, Entering Heaven Alive, drops on July 22. Of course, the singer and multi-instrumentalist is best known for being a member of the White Stripes and the Racon- teurs. The former has especially left its indeli- ble mark on pop culture. You seriously cannot go to any sporting event in the world and not hear the familiar chant set to the melody of the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army.” Photo by David James Swanson The 46-year-old has also been busy man- IT SEEMS THE FORMER WHITE STRIPES MEMBER IS IN THE MOOD TO KEEP TRAVELING. aging Third Man Records, a record label and vinyl pressing plant headquartered in Nash- ville. The label also operates record stores in Detroit and London. (The label also re- leased Miami garage- rock outfit Jacuzzi Boys’ live record, Live at Third Man Records, in 2011.) Recently, White made headlines when he pleaded with the major labels to build their own vinyl press- ing plants. Even before the pandemic, press- ing plants were having trouble keeping up with the demand for vinyl records, but after March 2020, vinyl sales surged as everyone stayed home and looked for new hobbies — including record collecting. Now smaller art- Jack White ists are having trouble getting their albums pressed owing to space limitations as main- stream pop artists seek to have their albums released on vinyl. To put it into perspective, the Recording Industry of America reported that in 2021, vi- nyl record sales topped $1 billion for the first time since 1986 and accounted for 63 percent of all physical-format sales and 7 percent of total music revenues. All this is a roundabout way of explaining why White might have chosen to call his cur- rent endeavor the Supply Chain Issues Tour. Tickets are now on sale to the general public. Jack White.With Cat Power. 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 20, at James L. Knight Center, 400 NE Second Ave., Miami; 305-416-5978; jlkc.com. Tickets cost $33 to $83 via ticketmaster.com. [email protected] Blast Off Kid Cudi announces his first headlining tour in five years. BY OLIVIER LAFONTANT M 16 16 r. Rager has been busy of late. This past week, Kid Cudi unveiled the rollout for his upcoming album, Entergalactic, setting September 30 as the re- lease date for the record and an accompanying animated Netflix series of the same name. The inaugural Moon Man’s Landing music festival set for September 17 in his hometown of Cleveland was announced a couple of days later. And for the first time in five years, he has an- nounced a headlining tour. Sheesh. Cudi’s To the Moon World Tour kicks off in Au- gust, with a show in Miami slated for Sunday, Sep- tember 4, at FTX Arena. Support from Don Toliver, 070 Shake, and Miami-Dade native Denzel Curry promises to amplify the potential for unbri- dled ambiance and intimacy. (Curry was set to headline his own show at the Fillmore Miami Beach on June 22 as part of his Melt My Eyez Tour; it was canceled owing to the ven- ue’s abrupt closure to make way for the construction of a hotel adjacent to the Miami Beach Convention Center.) This will be Cudi’s first ap- pearance in South Florida since he headlined Rolling Loud Miami in 2019. Since then, the 38-year-old vision- ary has had a hand in several highly publicized bodies of work, including Kanye West’s Donda, Playboi Carti’s Whole Lotta Red, and Drake’s Certi- fied Lover Boy. Most notably, the end of 2020 saw the surprise release of a new installment to the storied Man on the Moon series, Man on the Moon III: The Chosen. Fans warmly embraced the reworking of the cloudy neo-psychedelia Cudi has become known for, as he dipped into modern trap production. Kid Cudi Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images Kid Cudi.With Don Toliver, Denzel Curry, and 070 Shake. 7 p.m. Sunday, September 4, at FTX Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 786-777-1000; ftxarena.com. Tickets cost $34.75 to $224.75 via ticketmaster.com. [email protected] MONTH XX–MONTH XX, 2008 JUNE 30-JULY 6, 2022 NEW TIMES | MUSIC | CAFE | CULTURE | NIGHT+DAY | NEWS | LETTERS | CONTENTS | MIAMI NEW TIMES | MUSIC | CAFE | FILM | ART | STAGE | NIGHT+DAY | METRO | RIPTIDE | LETTERS | CONTENTS | miaminewtimes.com | browardpalmbeach.com miaminewtimes.com
