The White Stripes

Jack White - The Shrine - 8/10/12

Jack White The Shrine 8/10/12 See also: Our review of Jack White at the Wiltern in May Our review of Jack White at the Mayan in April After getting through the prying eyes and loving hands of the security guards at the Shrine last night, one noticed Jack White's rolling record store selling rare ... More >>

Let's Talk About the Crazy Names For Musician Fan Bases, Like "Beliebers"

As Jerry Seinfeld might say: What's the deal with all these crazy names for musician fan bases, like Lady Gaga's "Little Monsters" and Justin Bieber's "Beliebers"? It's all wrapped up in the tradition of fan clubs, which have been around at least since 1960 musical Bye Bye Birdie coupled an Elvi ... More >>

Jack White -The Wiltern - 5/30/12

Jack White The Wiltern 5/30/12 See also: *Our slideshow of the performance *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: The Complete List Better than...all of the Dead Weather albums put together. The man who built his career on secrets came to the Wiltern last night. Secret marriages, secret sin ... More >>

Jack White - Mayan Theater - April 30, 2012

Jack White Mayan Theater 4-30-12 Better than...sex. What do you call it when Axl Rose, Rod Stewart, Gary Oldman and Conan O'Brien converge in downtown Los Angeles on a Monday night? A Jack White show. From the minute he and his all-female backing band The Peacocks hit the stage at 10 last night ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1 What makes a terrible band? Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? That and a pair of testicles. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles ... More >>

Today in WTF: Jack White and Karen Elson Celebrate Their Divorce

Vogue​Former White Stripes singer Jack White and his wife, Karen Elson, are more mature than you. The two are getting a divorce. But there'll be no "there's a tear in my beer, 'cause I'm cryin' for you, dear," country classic to come out of the split, because they are throwing a party tonigh ... More >>

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Is the NPR Music Blog Trying to Be More "Low-Brow" Than Us? How Dare They?

​We thank commenter Toby (on today's Strokes post) for pointing us in the direction of NPR's music blog The Record, which apparently called us out for, are you ready? "Going low-brow" while discussing the demise of revered alt-legends The White Stripes. This would be amusing enough--after all ... More >>

Top 10 Bands That Should Have Broken Up Instead of the White Stripes

10 Bands Who Should Break Up

The White Stripes Officially Break Up

​The White Stripes are no more. Here's the official announcement by the duo (the official White Stripes site is currently down, most likely due to the announcement): "The White Stripes would like to announce that today, February 2nd, 2011, their band has officially ended and will make no furt ... More >>

Remembering the White Stripes: Top 10 Most Adorable Meg White Photos

Her Serene Majesty, Meg White​ The White Stripes are no more (read their announcement here). Sure, there where the red, black, and white outfits and props, the bare-bones blues riffing and pounding, the preciousness of Lil' Jackie White and all that. And then there was Meg. The Serene Majes ... More >>

Top 10 Hottest Music Videos Featuring Supermodels (In Honor of Evan Voytas Somehow Getting Kate Moss for His Latest)

Top 10 Music Videos Featuring Models (Featuring Evan Voytas' Kate Moss Cameo)

Meg White Cries: White Stripes Doc Reveals Mysteries Behind the Band

Erin BroadleyJack White​"Make as much noise as you want," recommended The White Stripes: Under Great Northern Lights director Emmett Malloy, before the film's premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on Friday night. In practice, the audience didn't make much noise at all: we were, for the most part ... More >>

Power-Duo the Covers!: Supergrass Offshoot Hot Rats at Spaceland Tonight

Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey are bona fide Britpop stars in the UK as core members of Supergrass, a band that never fully made it in America. Coombes and Goffey took a hiatus from Supergrass sessions to mess around with some of their favorite tunes as a White Stripes-style "power duo." The resulting ... More >>

Regent Gets a Makeover for Third Man Pop Up Shop and Free Dead Weather Performance

Regent Gets a Makeover for Third Man Pop Up Shop and Free Dead Weather Performance

Tonight at the Silent Movie Theatre: It Came from Detroit, A Film About Motor City Garage Rock

Tonight at the Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax: The great Don't Knock the Rock series will present It Came from Detroit, a documentary about the Motor City's garage rock scene. The new film traces the rise of the raw, in-yr-face sound generated by a bunch of delinquents like the ... More >>

Grammy Nominations

If you are the kind of person that actually pays attention to this kind of thing, then here's a full list of this year's Grammy nominees . Yes, Amy Winehouse got a ton of nominations, if she can hold it together until the awards area announced. Kanye West got eight, and we can only hope he gets sh ... More >>

White Stripes Cancel Dates, Including the Forum

The White Stripes have canceled their North American tour, including the band's show on the 19th at the Forum. "Health issues" and Meg White's "acute anxiety" are the keywords. The White Stripes' Myspace page shows dates even stretching through November in Europe have also been canceled. More n ... More >>

Christmas in June

Stripes on the Strip

Sticky, icky Goodness

White Stripes get back to their little room

Trying to Shake the White Stripes Icky

What the thump

Rock Picks

For the week of March 29 – April 5

Rock Picks

For the week of February 22 – March 1

Rock Picks

For the week of Feb. 15 - 22

Great American Garageland

Shower Power

While a few pals questioned the choice to have my co-ed baby shower bash at Boardner's in Hollywood, they soon saw that it wasn't quite what they expected. This place sure aint the rock dive of yore! First of all, owner Tricia Labelle has really classed it up, adding and revamping the art deco tou ... More >>

White White Baby

Odds/Sods, Bits/Bobs

or, This Week in Meaningless Trivia

Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!

A scientific study of the two-piece indie-rock boom

Two Great Tastes that Taste Kinda Awesome Together . . .

Starry Night

Live in LA

Snakebites

Jack White's Ghost Sonata

Instant Rock for the People

With “Blue Orchid,”the White Stripes bring the rock the old-fashioned way: really fucking fast

Joiners in Believing

Prog rock is back, and it’s coming for your hipster children

Get on It or Else

They Don’t Make 'Em Like That Anymore

Top of the Pops

You Better You Bests

The Kids Aren’t Alright . . . They’re Amazing

Why what was old and lost and a bit odd is young and new — and exciting — again

Red and White All Over

The White Stripes, for real

Von Bondies: Boogie Children

Motor City Madness

A garage full of Detroit rock

Blood Rush

No more Coldplay, show us the love

Undead Band Talking

The Year in Music

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

Peppermint Twist

The White Stripes’ blues in the red zone

Stripes 4 Ever