White Stripes, Strokes Finish Joint Concerts Thursday, Look Towards Future

08/15/2002 10:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Matt Ashare

(8/15/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- The White Stripes and the Strokes conclude their four-show concert series Thursday (August 15) at Radio City Music Hall in the Strokes' home base of New York City. The groups will then turn their attention to future projects, which in both cases means putting plans in motion for their next albums.

The Strokes plan to hit the studio this fall to record a follow-up to their gold-selling Is This It, while the White Stripes have already recorded their follow-up to 2001's White Blood Cells at Toe Rag Studios in England.

White Stripes frontman Jack White tells LAUNCH that he still has to finish mixing the album, and he's not yet sure how to describe it. "I'm not so sure yet. It's hard to say. It's quite eclectic. I can't really say, though. I don't really know. It's not finished yet. I don't really have a firm opinion about it yet. It might be January or February. I haven't figured it out yet--probably around that time, beginning of the next year," he says.

White will travel to Romania this month to film his parts as a musician in Cold Mountain, a Civil War film that stars Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Renee Zellweger.

White and his partner, Meg White, are nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), all for the Legomation clip for the single "Fell In Love With A Girl." The VMAs will be handed out August 29.

-- Gary Graff, Detroit

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