Jim White (drummer)

Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney and Jim White have all done time in supergroups before. Could they handle it on a cold Tuesday night on a Bluetooth stereo in Glasgow? Alex Neilson gives an emphatic and unequivocal yes. Released in late 2024, “The Hard Quartet” carries all the messy, confounding joy of Dirty Three and Pavement, and makes you remember what you love about music.

Cat Power is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her landmark album, The Greatest, with a new Redux EP, out January 23, 2026. Recorded with her Dirty Delta Blues band, the EP features a newly finished James Brown cover, “Try Me.” A special anniversary tour, performing The Greatest in its entirety, will reach the UK and Ireland in November 2026, including a show at London’s Roundhouse and Dublin’s Vicar Street

On Inner Day, Jim White expands on his percussive solo debut, creating a fuller, more detailed document. Keyboards, guitar, and even White’s own playful, semi-spoken vocals come to the front. It’s an impressive balancing act —a “clever, controlled use of tension” — between intricate drums and uncanny melodies. While White navigates wonder and trepidation in a mightily refreshing way, you still get the feeling that this is just the start.

If Jim White’s second solo album, Inner Day, is a “state of nature: peace and tension, rest and disquiet”, then “Two Ruffys”, his new album single, is its disquieting, beautiful wind. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Anna White, which scores the song’s meditation on “life and loss.”

Jim White has released his new single “I Don’t Do / Grand Central.” The track, a spirited vocal exchange with Zoh Amba, is one of two songs on his new album where White sings for the first time. The music video, edited by Eve Sussman, follows the pair on a journey straight to the Oyster Bar of Grand Central Station, where the two commune and parry in delightful form.

Master percussionist Jim White is set to release his second solo album, Inner Day, on October 24th. This time, he’s exploring new territory as a lyricist and vocalist for the very first time. The album finds White creating a hypnotic relationship between keyboards and drums, a process he began on his 2024 solo debut, All Hits: Memories. The title track, featuring the first lyrics he’s ever written, is out now.

The Hard Quartet, featuring Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White release a brand new digital two-song single ahead of an extensive tour including UK dates.

With just Mick Turner’s keyboards twinkling alongside Helen Franzmann’s dreamy, ruminative vocals, Mess Esque share their new single and video, ‘Let Me Know You’, taken from their new album ‘Jay Marie, Comfort Me’ on Drag City.

Jim White and Marisa Anderson have announced UK and Ireland tour dates for September 2024 in support of their expansive new duo album Swallowtail. In case you missed it, check out their KLOF Mag Playlist.

Watch Jem Cohen’s wistful music film for Jim White and Marisa Anderson’s “Aerie”, the album opener of their latest duo album Swallowtail. Cohen: “Collaboration? Improvisation? Song structure? None of it has to be tied down.”

Beings are the New York City quartet Zoh Amba, Steve Gunn, Shahzad Ismaily and Jim White; their debut album, ‘There is a Garden’, is blistering, beautiful free jazz with an uncommonly sunny and accommodating outlook.

In our second ‘Reflections’ playlist, we ask Jim White and Marisa Anderson to put together a playlist that inspires them. Featuring: Lankum, Anouar Brahem Trio, Freakwater, Ornette Coleman and more.

Swallowtail, Jim White’s and Marisa Anderson’s latest offering, is an album of quiet assurance and power. Shaped through improvisation and musical conversation, it encapsulates everything there is to love about improvised instrumental music.

Taken from their forthcoming new album Swallowtail, listen to Marisa Anderson and Jim White’s new single ‘Peregrine’, a gorgeous slow-burner that highlights the duo’s almost effortless synchronicity

Dirty Three announce “Love changes everything”, their first album in over a decade and share their opening track and video. Unrelenting and visionary, the power of this trio is undeniable – it’s great to have them back.

Following their acclaimed 2020 debut The Quickening, renowned drummer Jim White and acclaimed guitarist Marisa Anderson announce their elemental new album Swallowtail. Listen to their new single “Bitterroot Valley Suite I: Water.”

Taken from his new album All Hits: Memories, drummer Jim White shares a video for his new album single ‘Marketplace’, made by Anna White…The tapping of the hi-hat, like signals from typewriters and stock tickers of old, sets the tone…

Jim White, one of the world’s greatest drummers, has announced his first-ever solo album, All Hits: Memories, and shares lead single and video ‘Names Make the Name’ – Tran and Masami Tomihisa’s video marches the viewer through an abandoned wonderland with serpentine fascination.