The White Stripes are debuting their latest video for "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As Your Told)" all day today on MTV and MTV2. We'll get a link up to the video as sooon as we find one. Until then Gander On for a few pictures from the video shoot set in the Nunavut Territory in the Arctic during their Canadian tour.
4.5 Ninja Stars from Jbuc on this one, check out the review below.
The Stripes are back with all their lovable weirdness! Like White Blood Cells to an industry infected by scratch and sniff bands yet still wonders why their numbers are down. It couldn't’t be any clearer than on “St. Andrew” a bagpipe jam session over which Jack asks in a helium drenched voice “What exactly do you want me to say.” This and the spoken word over blasting guitar riffs of “Little Cream Soda” would surely have been left on the cutting room floor of a major-label yet are essential to what the Stripes are. Icky Thump is The White Stripes album that long-time fans were unsure whether they would ever make again. It has the unpolished grit the aforementioned White Blood Cells and their eponymous debut but they have definitely grown artistically since those days. Really an anthology, of sorts, of everything you love about the band. You’ll be intrigued on first listen and love it even more afterwards. If not, it’s okay, you can go right back to your M.I.M.S. album.
Standout Tracks: Rag and Bone, Conquest, A Martyr For My Love For You
Misses: none (give it a second listen you’ll see what I mean)
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MTV is streaming the new White Stripes Album "Icky Thump" here. Most of you have probably already heard the horrible radio rip and let me tell you it does not do the album justice at all.
With the release of Icky Thump coming up, multiple song leaks, an album leak that caused Jack to tear a new one into a Chicago radio DJ, the Rag And Bone 7" in the new issue of NME and a European Tour you would think there wouldn't be anything else to blog about. So before the internets get all in frenzy with their talk about the new album the White Stripes have given us their U.S. tour dates. Gander on for the dates and you can bet we'll be covering both shows in Seattle and the Boise date at the minimum.
7/22, Portland, ME (Cumberland Civic Center)
7/23, Boston, MA (Agganis Arena)
7/24, New York, NY (Madison Square Garden)
7/25, Wallingford, CT (Chevrolet Theater)
7/27, Wilmington, DE (Grand Opera House)
7/28, Fairfax, VA (Patriot Center)
7/29, North Myrtle Beach, SC (House of Blues)
7/30, Birmingham, AL (Sloss Furnaces)
7/31, Southaven, MS (Snowden Grove Park Amphitheater)
9/15, Austin, TX (Zilker Park/Austin City Limits Festival)
9/16, Austin, TX (Zilker Park/Austin City Limits Festival)
9/19, Inglewood, CA (The Forum)
9/21, Berkeley, CA (Greek Theatre)
9/24, Anchorage, AK (William A. Egan Civic Center)
9/26, Seattle, WA (Paramount Ballroom)
9/27, Seattle, WA (Paramount Ballroom)
9/28, Boise, ID (Idaho Center Theater)
9/29, Salt Lake City, UT (The “E” Center)
9/30, Jackson Hole, WY (Snow King Center)
10/2, Rapid City, SD (Rushmore Plaza Civic Center)
10/3, Fargo, ND (Fargo Civic Auditorium)
10/4, Lincoln, NE (Pershing Center Auditorium)
10/6, Chicago, IL (Aragon Ballroom)
10/7, Chicago, IL (Aragon Ballroom)
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Haven't even had time to watch it, to busy with work, but it really needed to get posted regardless. I know they shot it in a Nashville Jail and it includes a mexican whorehouse but that about it. Click the link and enjoy Jack And Megs latest and greatest!
Check it out at Spinner right now!!!
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The White Stripes played their first show in two years last night at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville. Since the Gander was many miles away we turn to NME for a great review of the show. Gander on for the review.
Courtesy of NME
The White Stripes made their live return last night (May 18) at The Cannery Ballroom in Jack White's new hometown Nashville, Tennessee.
Announced less than 48 hours prior, the pre-tour show sold out in less than five minutes with fans ecstatic to see the duo perform for the first time since December 2005 - and the first time in Nashville since 2001.
Without an introduction, The White Stripes quietly took the stage and quickly began with a cover of Hank Williams Sr's 'Tennessee Border', a fact not lost on the Tennessee crowd who hooped and hollered their approval.
As usual the entire stage was done up in red, white and black, a theme that went so far as to include the stage hands who wore black fedoras with red feathers and even the lighting woman who had dyed her hair red.
Meg White wore a black and white polka dot dress with a red and white polka dot scarf while Jack wore a plain black t-shirt with red trousers and had cut his hair in a way that recalled the his looks on the cover of second album 'De Still', possibly in an homage to the band celebrating their tenth anniversary.
Before launching into the title track for their forthcoming album 'Icky Thump', Jack asked the crowd "How's my new hometown doing?" to an overwhelming response but after that the duo got down to business, pounding their way through a set cherry picked from their five album back catalog as well as a few covers including a crowd pleasing version of Dolly Parton's 'Jolene'.
The band did showcase several new songs from the forthcoming 'Icky Thump' including the acoustic, country-leaning 'Effect And Cause' and the downbeat story song 'I'A a Martyr For My Love For You'.
However the band had to struggle through some sound issues and an increasingly chatty crowd, which even saw the duo cut one new song, 'I'm Slowly Turning Into You' off after just one verse.
After ending the set with 'Wasting My Time', a smiling Jack returned to the stage for the encore armed with a Polaroid camera which he pointed at Meg and then the crowd before launching into a head banging version of 'Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground'.
The front man then told the crowd, "We've heard from Hank and we've heard from Dolly", before adding "there's one more" the pair needed to cover in order to complete the Tennessee song cycle.
They then launched into Loretta Lynn's Rated X' featuring Meg handling some off key vocals to the delight of the crowd.
After that Jack announced "Now we've blessed our first show in Tennessee" before ending the show with a raucous version of 'Seven Nation Army'.
The White Stripes played:
'Tennessee Border'
'When I Hear My Name'
'Black Math'
'Do'
'Cause And Effect'
'Jolene'
'Death Letter/Motherless Children'
'Hotel Yorba'
'I'm A Martyr For My Love For You'
'Cannon/John The Revelator'
'Ball And Biscuit'
'I'm Slowly Turning Into You'
'We're Going To Be Friends'
'Apple Blossom'
'Wasting My Time'
'Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground'
'Rated X'
'Seven Nation Army'
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The two coolest kids on the planet (not named Goose or MJ) are about to release their sixth album, 'Icky Thump.' While we love the Raconteurs, we were happy to read NME's re
port that this WILL NOT be the final album by the duo from Detroit. That would be a very bad thing.
The White Stripes will be including a 7" vinyl in the June 6th issue of NME. The giveaway single features 'Rag and Bone,' which will appear on Icky Thump. Should you decide to pre-order Icky Thump from insound, they will throw in a 7" containing 2 versions of the song 'Icky Thump.' NME can be found at Barnes & Noble. Run, don't walk...
Any free White Stripes material is cause for commotion, and the excitement doesn't stop there...If it is more Jack White you crave, my friend over at Jasper dot Web Vomit has a story for you. Note: Jasper is not a very credible source, but what do I know?
He reports that the Hentchmen (Italy Records), will soon be re-releasing their album Hentch-Forth.Five sometime soon. This is the album with Jack White BEFORE he pressed anything with
Meg. Allegedly, the re-release will also include the two 7" EPs Jack recorded with the band (Some Other Guy 7" and Ham And Oil 7").
Jasper writes, "The “Some Other Guy” cover always cracks me up, because The Hentchmen added that “Featuring Jack White” as sort of a joke. The name meant mostly nothing at that time, and it was just a “let’s put your name on the cover like it’s some sort of bonus” type thing. And yes, that’s Jack on the back of the sleeve. With blond hair."
If this Hentchmen album materializes, we predict big profits for a little-known Detroit band. Early postings around the White Stripes rumor mill have many wondering if a new, rare, re-leased Jack White album is too good to be true.
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Courtesy of Nashville Cream
According to a top-secret Cream source, The White Stripes are finishing up work on the video for "Icky Thump" out at the Tennessee State Penitentiary (also the setting for such films as The Green Mile and The Last Castle). The video is set in "Mexico" and the crew assembled a makeshift Mexican town on the grounds of the prison. Word is it looks pretty cool and Jack White is super nice.
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