In each of his... 32 (?) bands, Jack White makes a point of sharing, or even ceding, the spotlight with his collaborators. This is especially true with the Dead Weather, where Alison Mosshart handles the vocals and the vamping while Jack attempts to keep a low profile in back behind the drum kit.

Everyone from President Obama to Katy Perry has weighed in on Kanye West's bad behavior at the VMAs. The latest person to get laughs off Kanye's public buffoonery?

There's two things you need to know about Under the Great White Northern Lights, the White Stripes' new film, which documents their summer 2007 tour to the far reaches of Canada:

This week, Lollapalooza invaded Chicago with more than 130 bands banging out sets in the blazing heat. Plus, Jack White released his first solo track, Paramore dropped their new video, music great Les Paul died at 94, and Brand New's Jesse Lacy gave his first interview in three years.

These stories, plus the week's top news, photo galleries, audio/video, and live reviews, below.

"A spider got eight legs," Jack White sings in "Fly Farm Blues. "And I got two / This guitar got six strings / How about you? / What have you got?"

You can start drooling now, guitar geeks.