The Music News Round Up! Tuesday, May 29, 2012

7. Interview magazine's Dimitri Ehrlich interviews Jack White and Buzz Aldrin, while they in turn interview each other. Prior to Jack's interview with the magazine, he requested Buzz Aldrin be the interview. Jack asked Buzz about space travel, while Buzz asked Jack about his musical past and future. The even talked about potentially going on tour together. [Interview] [Jack White via] Check out some highlights from the interview below! Jack on working with Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. "Yeah. We put out a record on Third Man [a seven-inch of composer John Boswell's "A Glorious Dawn," which features spoken-word portions by both Sagan and Hawking]. That's one of the records that I'm proudest of having released. Carl Sagan was a huge influence . . . We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player, and possibly that Carl Sagan record, and figure out a way to drop the needle with all that turbulence up there and ensure that it will still play." On what the moon felt like to Buzz. "It was one of those things where you could just look out and think that nothing had changed in what you were looking at in hundreds of thousands of years—just a lot of little meteorites adding more dust. I use the words magnificent desolation to describe it—it was magnificent because of the human achievement to be able to go there, but it was just such a desolate, lifeless place with no air, very hot when the sun is high up, and then very cold when it's nighttime . . . I wish I could tell you that the face on the moon was winking and blinking, but it's about as dead as things get . . . It's not a good place to set up housekeeping. We'll let the Chinese do that. [all laugh]"