Jack White blesses fans with surprise EP, cheap concert tickets

Love may be blindness to Jack White, but it’s also dropping two genuinely exciting gifts for fans, completely out of the blue. The first is No Name Live, an unannounced five-song EP recorded across a handful of dates on White’s recent run of No Name “pop-up” shows. Instead of immediately embarking on a traditional tour in support of his 2024 No Name LP, White performed the one-off gigs at a handful of small venues across the country. 

Now he’s on the road for a more standard muti-city run, but the “That’s How I’m Feeling” singer is still refusing to cater too much to the establishment. Yesterday, he announced via Instagram that there would be a limited number of $20 student tickets available for every stop on the No Name tour. The tickets will be available in-person at the box office day of and given out on a first-come, first-served basis, and anyone with a valid student ID could theoretically snag one. White recently performed a number of international dates, but he’ll be back in the States for a two-show run in Brooklyn tonight before moving on to Boston and back overseas to Japan in the coming weeks. 

The cheap tickets may have had something to do with a lengthy rant White posted about “expected” concert lengths on Instagram over the weekend. “Been hearing a lot of chatter throughout the year of this glorious electric touring [sic] about how long our sets are ‘supposed to be’ on stage. As if the length of a show determines how ‘good’ it is,” he wrote. “I know that we’re living in a current era where people like to say ‘so and so played for 3 hours last night!’, and brag about it the next day hahaha, I’ll let our fans know now that my mind has no intention of ‘impressing’ y’all in that context.” 

While the No Name shows haven’t been offensively short by any means (the singer got a lot of support in the comments of his post, at least), he alluded to the relatively recent notion that “the cost of a ticket ‘entitles’ people to some kind of extra long show…uh…ok (hahaha).” Therefore, he’s “bridging the gap” with the new $20 option. You can read the rest of White’s post and check out No Name Live below: