It’s important to Jack White that you know that his new band The Raconteurs is not just a backing band. OK, I can dig it. But as someone who really couldn’t stand The White Stripes until Get Behind Me Satan was released (save for a song or two per albums prior), what the band actually “is” makes no difference. It’s just nice to see Jackie expand into a full-blown band sound. Seriously, there’s only so much you can do with Meg. But we’ve all known that for a long time. So it’ll be interesting to see how The Raconteurs play out in the long run. Go ahead and place your money on ’em. It certainly won’t be the mess that, say, Billy Corgan’s Zwan was.