White Stripes rarity exclusives available via subscription

Third Man Records, Jack White's label, has launched an online subscription service which will give members access to pre-sale tickets, T-Shirts, rare vinyl and rare videos only available to subscribers.

The subscription service is called The Vault and will be available for all Third Man Records projects which are mainly Jack White's various bands ie White Stripes, Raconteurs/ Saboteurs, Dead Weather.

It will be a two tiered system - premium and platinum membership, the latter also getting access to an exclusive Third Man 12" LP, 7" and tshirt every 3 months. For those interested in the platinum membership which comes with extra goodies for a higher fee, if you sign up before July 21 you'll receive a double album of The White Stripes LP Icky Thump featuring an exclusive MONO mix, 180 Gram Vinyl and customized artwork. For more details check here.

To launch The Vault, Jack White wrote a blog entry - read it here.

1998: mutant swinger from Mars landed and Jack White had a bowl cut!

Going around the blogs today is footage of Mutant Swinger From Mars - a scifi spoof filmed in 1998, but screening for the first time at the San Diego Comic Con next month.

Making a cameo in it is a young Jack White looking very different to how he does today. Wouldn't have picked it if someone didn't point it out to me!



More details over at Pitchfork.

More news on White Stripes film

Some more news on that White Stripes film we mentioned a while ago.

The film follows the White Stripes on their 2007 tour of Canada, as they set out to play every territory and province in the country. Not only concert halls in every nook and cranny of the country but spontaneous performances on a fishing boat, youth shelter, city bus and their famed one note concert - many of course captured by fans and uploaded onto Youtube:









The film apparently will be called The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights and will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

More details over at Pitchfork here and here.

White Stripes News

Jack White's been doing a few interviews recently and what with all this talk of his numerous side projects, it's good of Jack to put us at ease and let us know that though The White Stripes have been taking a break, another WS album is not too far away: "It won't be too far off. Maybe next year."

In his recent Music Radar interview, Jack also talks of the cancellation of their last White Stripes tour due to Meg's acute anxiety, which he says "was a very real problem, but one that I'm happy to say is in the past."

The full interview with Music Radar is here.

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Meg To Wed

Well there's the sound of a thousand hearts breaking.

It has been confirmed that Meg White is set to wed Jackson Smith, guitarist for Back in Spades and son of punk legend Patti Smith and the late MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith. Talk about rock union!

According to the Detroit News it's set to happen May 22 in Nashville.

More goss here, here and here.

White Stripes News - White Stripes film?

Jack White sure as a hella busy year ahead of him.

Following the announcement of Jack's new band Dead Weather, self-titled mag published this interview with Jack White and Allison Mosshart.

As Pitchfork has gleaned, Jack's To Do list for 2009 includes a film, production on 4-5 albums, a photo/ song series at the Third Man Records HQ, touring and album release from Dead Weather and 'other pretty big stuff' for Third Man Records. See more on Pitchfork here.

And what is this about a White Stripes film? Well has Jack told Self-Titled Mag:

"Then also, Third Man Films. The White Stripes are releasing a film this year, and when I go back home in a few days, I’m going to mix all the music for that, which is like 40 songs, so that’s going to take a lot of time."

You can read the original Self-Titled Mag interview here.

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Jack White's got a new band

Jack White has a new band called Dead Weather. Jack plays drums and sings, Alison Mosshart (The Kills) is frontwoman, Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs/ Saboteurs) is on bass and Dean Fertita (Queens Of The Stone Age) is on guitar.

Dead Weather made their debut performance at the launch of Jack' Third Man Records in Nashville last week.

The White Stripes perform on Late Night

The White Stripes made a special appearance on Conan O'Brien's final episode hosting Late Night, playing the track We're Going To Be Friends from their 2001 album White Blood Cells.



Conan has been a long time fan of The White Stripes, with the band performing on his show several times and Conan making an appearance in their video for The Denial Twist.

Jack White teams up with Adele and Alicia Keys

The White Stripes' Jack White has been keeping himself very busy working on collaborations with songstresses from both sides of the Atlantic.

He's teamed up with UK soul singer Adele to cover The Saboteurs' track Many Shades of Black:


And if being in mega bands The White Stripes and The Saboteurs wasn't enought, he has also joined Alicia Keys to record the new Bond theme Another Way To Die:

The White Stripes Conquer MTV Awards

The White Stripes have won an award for "Best Cinematography" for their clip for Conquest at yesterday's MTV music awards. The track is off their album of last year Icky Thump which was nominated for 4 Grammy awards.
You can watch the classic man vs beast clip below:




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