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Jack White played his new single “Lazaretto” fora couple of hundred fans on Record Store Day, and four hours later a copy of the performance was available on a limited run of vinyl. The stunt was a promotion for Record Store Day and his forthcoming album, Lazaretto. White performed Saturday morning at his Third Man Records label in Nashville, Tenn. As he was playing, fans could watch on television as the acetate record was being cut in a room behind the stage. After the title song from the album, he also recorded a cover of Elvis Presley’s “Power of My Love,” which was the B-side on the record. The master was then hustled over to the United Record Pressing plant, also in Nashville. After the recording was finished, White played a short set of fan favorites along with songs from the new album, which will be released in June. A few hours after the performance, White was back at the store with the first copies of the vinyl, which were sold to eager fans who were waiting in line. White, who is behind such bands as The White Stripes, The Dead Weather and The Raconteurs, said people are coming back around to buying music from record stores. “Thank the mom-and-pop, brick-and-mortar record stores all these years for staying alive, the ones that could,” White said.

Animal-welfare activists picketing Liam Neeson’s home Saturday said they don’t agree with him that New York City’s carriage horses should keep working. Neeson didn’t appear as about 50 demonstrators filled the sidewalk in front of his apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Police watched, and doormen photographed protesters hoisting signs. “Horses don’t belong in traffic, surrounded by buses. They don’t belong in the city; it’s outdated, it’s cruel,” said Peter Wood, an animal-protection investigator. Neeson, whose movies include Schindler’s List, Taken and Non-Stop, is a vocal supporter of the city’s carriage horses, which are kept in stables he toured recently with lawmakers. He said the horses are not mistreated. “It has been my experience, always, that horses, much like humans, are at their happiest and healthiest when working,” Neeson wrote in an April 14 editorial in The New York Times. His publicist declined to comment on Saturday’s protest.