White Stripes Blog

When Jack White announced he was starting up another new band, the Dead Weather, earlier this year, White Stripes wondered when they’d see another album of Jack and Meg songs. But now White says that with drummer Meg overcoming the anxiety issues that derailed a tour in September 2007, he doesn’t think new White Stripes material will be “too far off. May be next year.” This is obviously amazing news for the band’s fans, who initially suspected the Stripes hasty withdrawal from the road meant splitsville. “Nothing of the sort” Jack tells Music Radar. White says the sudden return to the road took its toll on Meg, “and we had to take a break.” White tells Music Radar that he was on tour with the Raconteurs for about a year before resuming business with the Stripes.

The Rolling Stones, Elton John, the White Stripes and Nirvana are among the highlights in the latest wave of rockets who will have songs featured on the upcoming Guitar Hero 5 music video game. For the White Stripes, who provide their Get Behind Me Satan opener “Blue Orchid” and Elton John, whose “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” will be alright for playing, GH5 marks the first time thier songs have apperead on a music video game.

The White Stripes hit the sheds of America in support of Get Behind Me Satan beginning tonight at San Diego Street Scene. But before the duo of Jack and Meg White play to thousands, the pair got in a club gig at Pomona, California’s cozy Glass House Thursday night. By the time the duo took the stage right around nine o’clock, the packed club flet like a sauna. But the heat did nothing to diminish fans’ enthusiasm as Jack, dressed in a black T-shirt and meg with her drums at left front of the stage, enterd to a rapturous ovation.

During a phonein press conference yesterday to discuss her As I Am tour, Alicia Keys talked about her favorite hair style, her love of Juicy sweatpants and her desire to collaborate with the White Stripes. “They’re very raw, very cut and dry. It’s like drums and guitar” she said. “It’s that simple, and I love that.” Keys said ever since her duet with Keith Urban at last year’s Live Earth concert, she’s been exploring other team-ups, and also listed Queens of the Stone Age, Linking Park and Coldplay as partners she’d like to work with. But Jack and Meg top her list. “I think that combining that style with mine, which already has a raw feel to it, and my voice, I just think we could do something really interesting that mixes rock and soul together, and blues and emotion, and it could be really touching” Keys added. As for when the possible collaboration may take place, Keys said “We’ve had some conversations. When the time works out, and it definitely will, it will happen”.

For their tenth anniversary show on Sunday in remote harbor town Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, they managed to find one room that was nearly perfect: The Savoy, an intimate theater built in the early 1920s to replicate old Victorian music halls and which happens to be schemed almost entirely in red, balck and white and haunted by as many ghosts as the band’s music. Both sides of the “White Family” were in attendance for the occassion, and eager fans dressed in color-coordinated outfits were rewarded with small cups of champagne by the Stripes road crew pre-show.

The White Stripes have scored a career-best devut with their sixth album, Icky Thump. Last week, 223,056 people bought copies of the blues-rock duo’s latest opus, securing them the number two spot on the Billboard charts behind Bon Jovi. This marks both the White Stripes highest chart debut ever and their hottest week of sales: 2005′s Get Behind Me Satan entered that charts at number three, selling 189,000 copies in its first week. Somewhere, Jack and Meg are surely clinking Red Stripes in celebration.

The White Stripes concert film Under Great White Northern Lights is currently blowing out speakers in cinemas all over this country and Canada, and Rolling Stone has another taste of the pandemonium that’s in store for lucky filmgoers with a screenings in their hoods. Watch Jack White absolutely thrash his guitar during a cover of Son House’s “Death Letter”, just one of nearly 30 tracks that will feature in the White Stripes’ doc about their odd 2007 tour of Canada, a trek that featured impromptu perforrmances on fishing boats, public buses and elementary school classrooms.

Jack White’s Third Man records have announced that the White Stripe’s final concert from 2007 will soon be released as a live album titled Live in Mississippi. The double vinyl set will feature the band’s full set in Southhaven, Mississippi on July 31st, 2007. There doesn’t seem to be any plan to release the album as a CD or digital download.

The White Stripes wild 2007 Canadian tour found the band performing on a Winnipeg transit bus and a Prince Edward Island fishing boat, and in a British Columbia classroom. The venues seemed curiously cinematic for good reason: footage from all the shows will be coming to the big screen. Jack White has revealed plans to release a documentary about the duo’s trek of the Great White North. Besides the standard tour stops in Toronto, Montreal and other cities with NHL teams, the Stripes ventured into smaller Canadian towns that most U.S artists typically pass over, like Whitehorse, Yukon and St. John’s, Newfoundland. “As we went around and played a show in every province or territory, we realized that not even a Canadian band had ever done that. Which is wild, I can’t even believe that” White told the CBC. “How did we become the first, you know? It’s already the 21st century!”.

In a suprise news posting on Jack White’s Third Man Records website, The White Stripes officially announced that they have broken up. “The reason is not due to artistic differences or lack of wanting to continue” the post reads. “Nor any health issues as both Meg and Jack are feeling fine and in good health. It is for a myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way”.