NO CAMERAS, BAGS (LIKE BACKPACKS, LAPTOP BAGS), OR BOTTLES ALLOWED.

Seriously. Otherwise they will make you check it. And probably be mean to you.

Small purse, with wallet, cell phone, etc, is fine.

You are 100% able to listen to the new album–because you just bought it at your local record shop/ legal download service.

What do you think?

Here’s how I think it stacks up with the rest of the White Stripes catalog:

Icky Thump = Get Behind Me Satan (I’m still not sure which I like better)
Icky Thump > Elephant
Icky Thump < White Blood Cells
Icky Thump > De Stijl (Still on the fence on this one)
Icky Thump < The White Stripes

What’s your assessment?

Last week the White Stripes did a very special Live Lounge performance on Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley’s show. But that cheeky Scott Mills decided he would reveal the reason why Jo Whiley doesn’t like interviewing the White Stripes. It has nothing to do with them as people, or their music (she is in fact a big fan), but it has more to do with an uncomfortable “awareness”.

Download/listen to the blush-worthy explanation…

DOWNLOAD: “Why Jo Whiley Doesn’t Like Interviewing the White Stripes” from the Scott Mills show on Radio 1 [MP3]

Listen/see fantastic coverage of their Live Lounge appearance as well as a 45-minute set they did for Zane Lowe’s show over at the Radio 1 website. It’s pretty darn sweet–audio, video, and photos.

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A blast from the past courtesy of MTV news. Link from The Imaginary Socialite:

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Dakota Fanning-scary or adorable?

I got the following email from a Cali-based reader:

The White Stripes are taking over the old Tower Records on Sunset Blvd. for a midnight madness sale Tuesday June 19th at 12:01AM and then a special performance on Wednesday June 20th in the store. The whole store is being decorated in the style of the old Tower, except with imagery from the band. The first 200 people to buy the record at midnight will receive tickets to the show. Fans have already begun to camp out to ensure their tickets.

Man! And I thought NYC kids were crazy! But I’d probably do the same if I was a student with nothing to do during the summer!

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Big piece on Ryan Adams in the New York Times this weekend. Features a photo of him with a haircut that makes him look like a lost member of The Stills. He’s still dreamy though. Super-excited for Easy Tiger to drop on June 26.

In the interview, Ryan talks candidly about his heavy drug abuse and his current road to recovery.

A sampling:

“My behavior was getting extreme,” he said, smoking an American Spirit. “I was running the risk of becoming one of those people who talks to himself all the time. I was about to walk over this line that there was no coming back from, and I could feel it. I was seeing ghosts and hearing stuff. Having horrible nightmares. I was creating as much distance from people as possible so that, in the event that something terrible happened, it wouldn’t hurt them.”

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Mr. Adams stood at the microphone, played a blistering riff and screeched a placeholder vocal: “This is where the verse is gonna go/And it’s gonna be emo.” He came back into the control booth, wrote the song’s actual lyrics (“I am the wizard … . The world is at your command”), recorded the vocal and the song was done. On to the next one: “Cobra Kadabr

Later in the article he and girlfriend Jessica Joffe joke about how they helped each other get sober and blah blah blah…