UPDATE: Jack White's camp has released an appropriately cheeky statement on the "controversy," saying that White has "the upmost respect for the Foo Fighters and communicated with Grohl this morning." No apology to Rolling Stone, though. Read the full statement at the bottom of the post...
Jack White has previously said he doesn't trust anyone who doesn't like Led Zeppelin, and his inspiration from, and admiration of, that monumental band is apparent in nearly all of his projects, from the searing riffage to the high-pitched wails, right on down to the occasional blatant reappropriation of delta blues...
Jack White was in a much better mood in Milwaukee than he was in Chicago, so he made a diehard fan's dream come true on Monday night (July 21) by bringing her on stage at the Eagles Ballroom and actually letting her play one of his guitars...
Jack White caught three baseball games in three days during the Midwest leg of his current tour, culminating in what looked to be a miserable outing at the Chicago Cubs game last night (July 22). That screengrab up top, with White looking like he'd rather be catching a steam with The Von Bondies' singer, has been spreading around Twitter and is basically the new logo for Cubs fandom...
Jack White broke out The White Stripes' "Icky Thump" at his Forecastle Festival set in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday, and after a couple verses he worked in an interpolation of Jay Z's "99 Problems," proclaiming that "a bitch ain't one." And thus the rock-sampling rap track goes full circle...
Jack White has been trotting out mini-covers on the reg during his Lazaretto tour, most recently with a snippet of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" at Glastonbury over the weekend. Now comes footage of White opening a Dublin show with an instrumental version of Kanye West's "Black Skinhead...