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White Stripes' First Recording Session Ever to Be Released

Sometimes we’re so caught up with where music is going that we forget to look where it came from. Such is surely the case with Jack White; the one-man musical-juggernaut has been releasing so much music of late (Dead Weather, Raconteurs, et al), that his humble beginnings playing scrappy garage rock with Lady White seems like a distant past. That is…[cue dramatic string swell]…until now....  read more

Weird Al's New Song is a White Stripes Parody and Ode to Charles Nelson Reilly

It's been a while since America's premier parody songwriter released a certified summer banger in the vein of "White & Nerdy" or "Hardware Store." That is, until he unveiled the fruits of his partnership with the fine folks at humor website JibJab: a White Stripes-parodying ode to departed Match Game panelist Charles Nelson Reilly, titled, natch, "CNR." Yankovic (doing his best impressions of Jack and Meg White) offers a Homeric paean to the man, envisioning CNR as a superpowered badass who (ascot and all) shoots lasers from his eyes, defecates diamonds, and pulls out human hearts like a high priest of...  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Coffee and Cigarettes

Writing about Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes in this space is cheating a little bit...  read more

Meg White to auction off drums for benefit

White Stripes drummer Meg White of has donated a drum kit to auction off as part of a fundraiser for Detroit music scene legend Jim Shaw. Shaw was recently diagnosed with cancer. ...  read more