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The guitar hero revisits the desert fest to deliver a career-spanning retrospective<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tFresh off a raucous (and hilarious!) appearance on Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a>, Jack White<\/a> hit the desert for a typically action-packed set at Coachella<\/a> today, in a last-minute addition that follows the fest\u2019s recent tradition of dropping superstar veteran acts in unexpected early-day slots. White \u2014 who\u2019s performed Coachella multiple times as a headliner on his own<\/a> and with various other projects including the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather, and an early-career buzz-making set with the White Stripes \u2014 hit the stage in his trademark all-black outfit (even starting the set in dark sunglasses, though he lost them quickly) walloping the crowd with itchy guitar work on a quick instrumental before launching into a powerful \u201cThat\u2019s How I\u2019m Feeling,\u201d from 2024\u2019s No Name<\/em> to kick things off.<\/p>\n \n\tIn case anyone in the audience was concerned about White not reaching into hits from his back catalog, he and his four-piece band smacked right into \u201cFell in Love With a Girl,\u201d the breakthrough hit from the White Stripes\u2019 White Blood Cells. <\/em>\u00a0That was followed up immediately by another White Stripes classic, \u201cDead Leaves and the Dirty Ground,\u201d with White shredding impossible-feeling solos between every fist-pumping lick.<\/p>\n \n\tThe set also included both of White\u2019s new songs from SNL<\/em>, \u201cG.O.D. and the Broken Bones\u201d and \u201cDerecho Demonico\u201d (presumably from a still-to-be-announced new album) as well as the Raconteurs radio hit \u201cSteady, as She Goes.\u201d Songs aside, the true reason to pack into the Mojave tent was to watch one of the great guitar heroes skronk and wail throughout, whopping unexpected breaks and whoop-ready vocals with an aplomb that both feels careless and entirely cathartic.<\/p>\n