The White Stripes has been talking to Spin magazine in the US about reports in Mojo that the band would split up after one more album. Jack White told Spin: "It was actually Mojo magazine misquoting us, which is surprising because they are usually on the ball. I only said that the band isn't going to last forever and that maybe we'd just do a couple more albums and that would be it. It wasn't some fake retirement ploy crap - I hate it when people do that."
Meanwhile the The White Stripes have been added to the bill for Radio 1's One Big Weekend which takes place in Manchester on 4 May - they join headliners Stereophonics and Badly Drawn Boy, Feeder, The Coral and Dirty Vegas. Tickets will be distributed to listeners for free this Friday from 9am at Manchester's Albert Square.