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Everybody is all exited about [tag]White Stripes[/tag] new upcoming album, entitled “Icky Thump” scheduled for release on June 19th. A music video called as the album, “Icky Thump”, has been released a few days ago and since then caused a lot of fuss around it. I found the video awesome, some classic White Stripes hard rocking is present here, with Jack putting his guitar to good use with amazing riffs and Meg with some serious drumming.
The video is nicely made with a one eyed Mexican prostitute Meg and a no good gringo Jack, all happening in a Mexican whorehouse, pretty sweet!
Also for their 10th band anniversary the happy Whites, Jack and Meg will tour through al lot of places they’ve never been at in the USA and Canada.
“We were leery for a long time … we’d never had the trust in us to do it,” he says. “It would have been a bad idea to do that on ‘White Blood Cells.’ We had them all offering it then. But I think it would have been over very quickly for us. We would have been a new flavor of the week and probably would have been a one-hit wonder with ‘Fell in Love With a Girl.”
Tour dates
June 24: Burnaby, B.C. (Deer Lake Park)
June 25: Whitehorse, Y.T. (Yukon Arts Centre)
June 26: Yellowknife, N.W. (Yellowknife Multiplex)
June 27: Iqaluit, N.U.N. (Arctic Winter Games Arena
June 29: Calgary, A.B. (Pengrowth Saddledome)
June 30: Edmonton, A.B. (Shaw Conference Centre)
July 1: Saskatoon, S.K. (TCU Place)
July 2: Winnipeg, M.B. (MTS Centre)
July 3: Thunder Bay, Ont. (Community Auditorium)
July 5: Toronto (Molson Amphitheatre)
July 6: Montreal (Bell Centre)
July 7: London, Ont. (Labatt Centre)
July 8: Ottawa, Ont. (Cisco Systems Bluesfest)
July 10: Moncton, N.B. (Moncton Coliseum)
July 11: Charlottetown, P.E. (Civic Centre)
July 13: Halifax, N.S. (Cunard Event Centre)
July 14: Glace Bay, N.S. (Savoy Theatre)
July 16: Saint John’s, N.F. (Mile One Centre)
July 22: Portland, Maine (Civic Center)
July 23: Boston (Agganis Arena)
July 24: New York (Madison Square Garden)
July 25: Wallingford, Conn. (Chevrolet Theatre)
July 27: Wilmington, Del. (Grand Opera House)
July 28: Fairfax, Va. (Patriot Center)
July 29: Myrtle Beach, S.C. (House of Blues)
July 30: Birmingham, Ala. (Sloss Furnace)
July 31: Southaven, Miss. (Snowden Grove Park)
Sept. 4-5: Chicago (Aragon Ballroom)
Sept. 6: Lincoln, Neb. (Pershing Auditorium)
Sept. 7: Fargo, N.D. (Civic Auditorium)
Sept. 8: Rapid City, S.D. (Rushmore Plaza)
Sept. 10: Jackson Hole, Wyo. (Snowking Center)
Sept. 11: Boise, Idaho (Idaho Center Theatre)
Sept. 12: Sat Lake City (E Center)
Sept. 13: Albuquerque, N.M. (Kiva Auditorium)
Sept. 15-16: Austin, Texas (Austin City Limits)
Sept. 19: Inglewood, Calif. (the Forum)
Sept. 21: Berkeley, Calif. (Greek Theatre)
Sept. 24: Anchorage, Ala. (William A. Egan Civic Center)
Sept. 26-27: Seattle (Paramount Ballroom)
