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  Jack White Records New Record with Rockabilly Royalty

  May 7, 2009 – Jack White has joined forces with Southern rock'n'rollers the Dex Romweber Duo for a new seven-inch single. White has confessed to being a longtime fan of Dex Romweber, who is the former frontman for retro-rockabilly outfit Flat Duo Jets, and who now performs with his sister (his real sister, not his "Meg White" sister) Sara Romweber. …
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  Wedding Bells: Trent Reznor, Meg White

  May 5, 2009 – Trent Reznor and Meg White are both set to tie the knot -- and not to each other. First up: the NIN frontman and his girlfriend Mariqueen Maandig, the singer for indie rock outfit West Indian Girl. The couple went public with their relationship at last week's Star Trek premiere, and a recent online post by Maandig'sbandmates confirmed the pair's plans to make it official. "In case you haven't heard the news, Mariqueen got engaged. …
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  Jack White Forms New Band

  March 11, 2009 – Alison Mosshart, vocalist for punk minimalists the Kills, and Jack White have joined forces as the Dead Weather, a new band also featuring White's Raconteurs bandmate Jack Lawrence and Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita. Mosshart will sing, Lawrence will play bass, Fertita will play guitar -- and White will be on drums and vocals. The quartet, which are making their live debut tonight at the opening of White's new Third Man Record …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  February 28, 2009 – This week's top stories had everyone talking: Kanye West mouthed off about Thom Yorke, the White Stripes disappointed on Conan's last night at Late Night, Chris Brown and Rihanna continued to cause controversy, and SPIN's Ellen Carpenter had some eyebrow-raising ideas about how to spend the $787 billion economic stimulus -- and blink-182's Mark Hoppus had something to say about it on his blog! All these, plus the week's best audio/vide …
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  Video: White Stripes Disappoint on Final Episode of 'Conan'

  February 23, 2009 – The White Stripes played in public for the first time in nearly two years on Friday night's final episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and while the show's outgoing host bathed the appearance with praise, the band's wildly unpolished rendition of "We're Going to Be Friends" didn't amount to anything approaching a triumphant return. With Jack playing an ornate acoustic guitar and Meg timidly strumming an electric, the Detroit-bred  …
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  Hear Jack White and Alicia Keys' Bond Theme

  September 19, 2008 – Attention Bond buffs, Jack White fanatics, and Alicia Keys devotees, you no longer need to YouTube that pesky Coke commercial to hear "Another Way to Die," the duo's new theme for the forthcoming Bond film, Quantum of Solace -- you can stream it for free: Mr. White has also posted the tune in its entirety on his Third Man Records site -- be patient, the site is slow. So, what do you think? …
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  Oasis' Noel Gallagher: "I've written a couple 'Bond' theme tunes"

  September 17, 2008 – Oasis' ever prolific songwriter Noel Gallagher certainly won't let a psychopathic Canadian fan slow him down and is already setting his sights on yet another venture: A Bond theme song. Pulling from a vast "backlog of thirty-odd songs," some of which are outtakes from Oasis' forthcoming album, Dig Out Your Soul, the elder Gallagher claims he'd love to submit a track for the next Bond film and hopes to reclaim the esteemed authorship fo …
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  What the Heck Were the VMA’s About, Anyway?

  September 8, 2008 – After 25 years, it's finally happened: There's essentially no relation between actual music videos and MTV's annual VMA extravaganza. Who's even seen the video for 2008 Best New Artist winner and German emo-glam quartet Tokio Hotel? Wait... who? Exactly. Regular music video play has long been absent from MTV proper's formatting, and with the network's specialty channels, from rock to rap, it's tough to get everyone on the same page. …
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