New Europe show dates for January and February are up along with online pre-sale links! Online pre-sale begins Monday, December 15 at 9am.
The White Stripes recently recorded a session for the radio show World Cafe. You can listen to their session on December 19th. Find your local station by going to:worldcafe.org or listen online by going to xpn.org.
Online ticket pre-sale for the New Year Eve show in Chicago will be on Tuesday, 11/4 at 10AM CST.
New show on New Years Eve announced.
New message from the White Stripes.
New mini message from the White Stripes. Also, the White Stripes are nominated for best international new group in the MTV video music awards Latin America 2003. The show will happen October 23.
New message from the White Stripes.
Tickets for the newly added November 18th Roseland Ballroom show in NYC go on sale Friday, September 26th at noon.
Check out the world premiere of The White Stripes' "Hardest Button to Button" video.
Online ticket sales for the Detroit show on November 28 at Masonic Temple. Online pre-sales start Friday, September 12 at 9am.
View the video for I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
New show in Brazil on October 31.
The White Stripes brought home another moonman from the MTV VMAs in the category of Best Editing for their Seven Nation Army video. See a full show report here.
Visit VH1.com for some news about what the Stripes have been up to since Jack's injury.
Meg is on the cover of September issue of Women Who Rock magazine!
New shows in New Orleans and Australia. New message from the White Stripes.
From the XL headquarters:
The White Stripes - release their new single 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself' in the UK on Monday the 1st of September 2003. This is the White Stripes' rendition of the Bacharach/David classic, performed in Jack and Meg's own inimitable style. The single also features a number of exclusive tracks including 'Who's To Say' (written by former bandmate Dan Miller, currently of Detroit band, Blanche), live radio versions of favourites 'Lafayette Blues' and 'I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman' + filmed live footage of an incendiary 'Black Math', from the band's recent hometown show at The Masonic Temple in Detroit.
Watch the 'Black Math' live video in
Real Video HI or Real Video LO
Thank you all for your patience. We are pleased to finally announce the majority of new dates for The White Stripes' postponed shows:
11.10.03 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom
originally on 8.8
11.11.03 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room
originally on 7.30
11.12.03 Colombus, OH Promowest (indoor)
originally on 8.3
11.13.03 Toronto, ONT Hershey Center
originally on 8.5
11.14.03 Montreal, QUE Metropolis
originally on 8.6
11.15.03 Providence, RI Lupo's
originally on 7.19
11.22.03 Washington, DC Smith Center
originally on 7.26
11.25.03 Cincinnati, OH Bogarts
originally on 8.2
11.26.03 Pittsburgh, PA AJ Palumbo Center
originally on 8.1
We have been advised that original tickets will be honored at the shows above. Please contact your local promoter or ticketmaster should you have any questions.
Unfortunately, we were not able to reschedule Norfolk, VA and Nashville, TN. We will do our best to go back to both of these cities as soon as possible, again our sincere apologies.
We hope to have the dates and venues for Boston, NYC, Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia within the next day or two. They will be listed as soon as they are available.
Thanks again for your patience, understanding and support.
New message from Jack about his injury and how it will affect future tour dates. See message page.
New US show date and Australian dates!
It's what you all have been asking for: The White Stripes Official Online Store is LIVE. Click here to visit the store.
Thanks for being patient while we got a White Stripes store up and running for you. You can finally purchase official White Stripes merchandise at the one and only authorized White Stripes store.
New SHOWS announced!
SEPTEMBER 17
Portland, OR - Keller Auditorium
with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Soledad Brothers
ADDITIONAL LA SHOW - SEPTEMBER 24
Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
with Soledad Bros and Hot Hot Heat
Due to Jack's recent unfortunate car accident and subsequent broken finger, tour dates July 18-August 10 are postponed...but not cancelled. The new dates are being sorted this week, and once new dates are determined old tickets will be honored. Please don't email with any questions regarding this as we will let you all know as soon any other information materializes.
Jack is injured. New message from him about the issue at hand. Read an article about such recent developments here
The White Stripes are pleased to announce pre sale ticketing for our upcoming Fall American tour which kicks off on September 13 in Berkeley, CA. You can buy tickets to a selection of The White Stripes' upcoming shows directly through musictoday beginning Thursday, July 10, at 9 AM PST, before they go on sale to the public. You'll need to register to receive your username and password to buy tickets.
The first pre sale will happen on Thursday, July 10, at 9 AM PST. You'll be
able to buy tickets to the following show:
9.13 Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley, CA
The second pre-sale will happen on Friday, July 11, at 9AM PST. You'll be
able to buy tickets to the following shows:
9.15 Plaza of Nations, Vancouver, BC
9.16 Stadium Exhibition Center, Seattle, WA
9.22 Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
9.23 Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
9.25 RIMAC Arena, La Jolla, CA
The White Stripes Direct Ticketing allows you to buy tickets online, directly from the artist for upcoming shows, in an effort to reduce the high surcharges from other online ticket vendors, and to offer a more convenient ticketing option.
WS in the news:
DIW 5.2: White On Time
Venus, Summer 2003: Magic Three
Filter, May-June, 2003: How To Make The Earth Explode
Let Them Eat Lead Issue 6
Other news courtesey of Triple Tremelo:
Audio interview at www.99x.com along with some pictures.
Seven Nation Army won the Best International Video By a Group in the recent Much Music Awards. Apparently, the dup 'taped an acceptance speech which alternated two men in black suits behind them, mixed with the members of Whirlwind Heat in the three monkeys pose (hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil). Jack then described how they grew up a couple of blocks away from Canada and how it's very special to them 'for all you know' It is also known via The Little Room that Jack played the Seven Nation Army riff on the mandolin.Read about sweethearts, fake punks, dinner at country legend Loretta Lynn's house, and Justin Timberlake from Jack and Meg at New York's Central Park Zoo. With Kurt Loder of course.
Check out The Fly TV interview done in Australia earlier in the year. Meg's a genius and Jack does The Cramps with Human Fly! In Real Video LO or Real Video HI bandwidth. Thanks to Rebo at The Little Room for the link.
New CANADA show date posted.
New US and CANADA show dates posted.
Also, tune into the webcast of the the Weenie Roast in LA today, June 14, at the KROQ website. Check it out here for news on the new Black Math video. (Thanks to Triple Tremelo for the link!)
The July 5 Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom show has been cancelled and re-scheduled for August 8 Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom. All tickets previously purchased for the July 5 show will be honored at the August 8 show. Contact the venue for any further details
Order the Seven Nation Army single on CD or vinyl or both at via the XL website.
New US show dates posted.
Jack and Meg have been nominated at the Much Music Awards for Best International Video Group for Seven Nation Army and People's Choice: Favourite International Group for Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground. The Much Music Video Awards will take place on June 22, 2003 in Toronto, Canada and will be aired on Much Music. Thanks to Triple Tremelo for this news.
White Stripes in the news:
Interview from the Netherlands
Kludge:Review of Elephant where you can post your own comments
Radio 4 Interview
Interview with Joe Whiley on Radio 1
Elephant Track by Track by Jack and Meg
Juice, Issue 110, Febraury 2002: If You Want Blood (You Got It)
MTV Trax, May 2003
Meg took a boat trip with Beck and friends! Read about it here
New photos added to the gallery at MTV.com.
Jack and Meg emerged in the top 5 of the UK album charts with Elephant over a month ago and the album has already reached platinum status in the UK!!!
New Europe show dates posted.
In the news:
X-Ray Magazine - out May 22, 2003 (cover story)
Australian Guitar, Issue 34, May, 2003: Peppermint Powerhouse
New US show dates.
More WS in the news
Hotpress, May 21, 2003: The Story of The Red, White, And Blues
The Believer, May, 2003: Your Furniture's Not Dead
The SF Chronicle, April 30, 2003:Warfield Review
LA Times, April 28, 2003: Coachella Review
BBC Radio 1 has the whole performance of Big Weekend up here for your viewing pleasure.
More articles and snippets in:
Guitar Player, June, 2003: White Heat
Blunt Magazine, Issue 18, April 2003: Red White Deadly
Juice, Issue 121, May 2003: Stars And Stripes
Les Inrockuptibles, April 2 - 8, 2003
Bang, April 2003
Chart, April 2003
NME, May 3, 2003: Jack and Loretta's Country Ball
NME, April 26, 2003: The White Stripes Play Tiny Detroit Show
NME, April 19, 2003: Outselling Robbie and the Tour of 2003!
Q4 Music is having an exclusive competition to win the paint-splattered, signed t-shirts worn by Jack and Meg on the cover of May's Q magazine.
New show dates in US, Canada and Japan.
Choose the poster that you would most want hanging on your wall in at NME website The six with the most votes will make it into a special glossy pull out.
Seven Nation Army and We're Going To Be Friends are up for the Viewer's Choice Nominations in the 2003 MTV Video Awards.
In the news:
Metro Times, June 26: Honky-tonk grande dame
Detroit Free Press June 27: Rated X-traoridinary
Thank you to Lennat at Triple Tremelo for the following information on WS appearances in recent publications: Kerrang!, April 26, 2003: The Power Of Two
Blender, May 2003
NME, April 5, 2003: In The Court Of The White Stripes
Q, May 2003.
The Stripes are interviewed by famed film writer and director Jim Jarmusch in the May 2003 issue of Interview Magazine.
(courtesy of our friends at whitestripes.net) DON'T FORGET! The White Stripes week long run on Late Night with Conan O'Brien has begun! Plan on staying up late this week! In case you have no idea, O'Brien is on right after Jay Leno. If your TV is broke you had better be crashing your neighbors. You really do not want to miss this!
More hot news from the White Stripes offices at XL headquarters:
http://www.xlrecordings.com/thewhitestripes You, the record-buying public, rock! The White Stripes' new album 'Elephant' stampeded straight into the UK album charts at number one and into the US charts at number 6. The album was recorded in a brief two-week stint at Liam Watson's Toe Rag studio in London, with no equipment dating past the epochal year of 1963. The NME are hailing it as 'some of the most obliteratingly brilliant rock'n'roll of our time'... find out for yourself. 'Seven Nation Army' will be the first single to come from 'Elephant'. The single will be released on 21st April in the UK - and deleted on the same day. The video for 'Seven Nation Army' is spectacular - you can take a look in RealVideo on the XL website. UK radio is sounding particularly white-striped at the moment. Jack and Meg did an interview with Jo Whiley from BBC Radio One and it's online now at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/jowhiley/interviews/whitestripes_apr03.shtml
Also, although there is tons WS press going on these days, here are a few recent highlights:
Mean Street Magazine
New York Times Magazine
The Guardian UK
Village Voice
NME-Tour Kickoff
MTV
Nadwuar vs. the White Stripes (kinda old interview, but good)
The current issue of CHART features the WHITE STRIPES on the cover.
Also, got a WHITE STRIPES wallpaper available for downloading The wallpaper was created from an exclusive live shot we ran as the center-spread.
Check out some ultra cool White Stripes stuff going on over at Q Magazine along with contests, one to win tx to the sold out Brixton show!
Check out these new magazine appearances (courtesy of Triple Tremelo):
NME cover
CMJ, April 2003
Spin May 2003
Timeout
NME (featuring Meg with her broken arm)
ELEPHANT approaches! (from the mouth of ever infamous Ben Blackwell)
White Stripes are proud to present their fourth album, Elephant, to the American public on April 1st...no joke. The record will be available in the UK one day earlieir on March 31st. The Japanese people get the biggest treat with a release date of March 19th.
The Stripes have lots planned for this new record. Besides posing for wax figurines at Madame Tussaud's in London, they will play some shows. The shows will have dates...but unfortunately i'm told that too many are “tentative” to make any announcements just yet. Don't hate the messenger, just hate the message. Let me assure you that they will be some awesome dates, like a friday, a saturday, and maybe even a wednesday thrown in for fun.
The first single of Elephant is the song Seven Nation Army . Only the hippest radio stations in the country are playing it. If you don't hear it, bug whatever DJ who has the worst on-air name like Pubert or Porky and don't stop calling until you hear it.
As for the Elephant album itself, the Stripes pulled all the stops and made it a double LP for wider, deeper grooves that results in a better listening experience for you, the skeptical music consumer. There will also be six, count em, SIX (6!) different album covers. When arranged in a proper pattern, they tell you where to find the third sword in Zelda. Seriously.
