The Raconteurs’ two-night stand on Late Show With Stephen Colbert continued Friday with a performance of “Bored and Razed,” a track off the group’s just-released new album Help Us Stranger.
Bathed by green light on a stage designed after the Help Us Stranger cover art, Jack White and company delivered a fierce rendition of the track that amplified the studio rendition, with White’s distorted vocals and guitar filling the Ed Sullivan Theater.
The previous night the Raconteurs brought “Help Me Stranger” to the Late Show. Help Us Stranger marks the reunited band’s first LP together since 2008’s Consolers of the Lonely.
Also on Friday, the day of Help Us Stranger‘s arrival, the Raconteurs staged an intimate record release show at Rough Trade’s New York outpost, where the band blistered through a six-song set that included “Bored and Razed”:
After recently completing a tour of Europe, the Raconteurs will embark on a North American trek, their first in eight years, beginning in July.