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I re-read some of the last posts and that reminded me of an old QOTSA forum fun: the Natasha vs Meg White – who has bigger boobs? It was an approximately 50 page topic with a poll and tons of reference pictures attached. As far as I can remember, Natasha won (but keep in mind, this was on the QOTSA forum – at the Little Room, Meg White would have won).

The new Stripes album, Icky Thump will be out soon (the leak’s been floating around for a few days now) . I’m slightly afraid of it. Yeah, I dig the title song (watch it on youtube, creepy video. And Meg is strange with this new hair. Not as cute as she used to be), but… I don’t know.

And yeah, Era Vulgaris has leaked too… I am so fuckin ashamed of myself. Yes, I admit, I downloaded it, couldn’t resist.

As a punishment, from now on I’ll refer to myself not as I but as i. A non-capital letter for a capital crime!!

i guess i’ll be able to handle this, cause

Era.
Vulgaris.
Kicks.
Ass.

and of course, I’ll buy the record anyways.

Once again, it’s a totally new QOTSA sound. It lacks Mark Lanegan (he only provided backing vocals for one of the best songs, River in the Road), but whatever. Dark, twisted, insane songs and very dancey!!
i totally have a mental image of a huge crowd boogeying (how do you spell it??) together to Suture up your Future. i’ll write a cute article, with track-by-track review and stuff. Greatness.

New QOTSA line-up, with all the new guys pushed to one side (Dean Fertita and Michael Shuman respectively)… Well, now it’s way too easy to connect QOTSA to the White Stripes: the new QOTSa keyboardist played with The Raconteurs on tour.
(if you don’t know this game: you take two bands and try to find the shortest chain of musicians between them. For example, White Stripes — Iggy Pop:
White Stripes – The Raconteurs – Brendan Benson – The Stooges (Brendan does backing vocals on the new Stooges record) – Iggy Pop)

Meg, are you ready??

The coolest White Stripes performance e-vahh.

Watch it. Right now. Don’t hesitate. Pay extra attention to Meg’s evil look around 3:30.