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Meg and Jack White Auction Off Drum Kit for Jim Shaw

This just in, NME reports Jack and Meg White have donated the drum kit used in the White Stripes’ “The Hardest Button to Button” video (directed by Michel Gondry) in order to raise money for Detroit music scene legend Jim Shaw, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. The kit (seen below), which is only being […]

Posted byLauraJanuary 29, 2009January 29, 2009Posted inmusic, White StripesTags: detroit, Jack White, jim shaw, Meg White

Jack White’s Detroit House

UPDATE: November 2018: The house has been pulled off the market by the current owners as of November 30, 2018. Looks like they were unable to get their dream price of $1.2 million. Based on other home sales in the area, Trulia estimates the house to only be worth $672,000. July 2018: Jack White’s former […]

Posted byLauraApril 25, 2007December 20, 2018Posted inmusic, White StripesTags: detroit, Jack White15 Comments on Jack White’s Detroit House

Rocker Sock ‘Em

Ah, our two biggest obsessions of last week, Jack White and The Von Bondies, collided once again — literally. According to a Detroit police report filed by VB lead singer, Jason Stollsteimer, Jack punched him at a Brendan Benson concert. Jack says it was self-defense. The real question is when did Jack legally change his […]

Posted bylauraDecember 15, 2003May 26, 2009Posted ingossip, White StripesTags: detroit, Jack White, jason stollsteimer, von bondies

I Will Never Be Able to Hear Again

DUDE — IF YOU WEREN’T AT THE BE de-TROIT SHOW LAST NIGHT AT THE BOWERY, YOU FUCKING MISSED OUT! IT WAS RAD AS ALL HELL. I totally love The Kills. They’re amazing. Go buy everything they sell. You’ll be a happier person. Alison is this CK One-looking creature and it’s fabulous. STILL BEN SWANK AND […]

Posted bylauraNovember 1, 2002May 26, 2011Posted inconcerts, musicTags: CMJ, detroit, soledad brothers, the dirtbombs, the kills

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