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Jack White Becomes Proud Papa
WHITE STRIPES frontman (and RACONTEURS guitarist) JACK WHITE and his wife, model KAREN ELSON, welcomed their first child, daughter SCARLETT, this Tuesday. The child was born in Tennessee where the couple recently bought a new home. Elson and White wed last June in a ceremony in the Brazilian rainforest.
Eminem's Ex Wants Money, Custody
KIM MATHERS, the on-again, off-again wife of rapper EMINEM, is petitioning for financial support, attorney fees and shared custody of the couple's ten-year-old daughter, HAILIE, according to court documents filed in Michigan last week. Mathers also wants Eminem to foot the mortgage, insurance and utilities bills for the pair's residence in the suburbs of Detroit. Eminem, born Marshall Mathers III, filed for divorce on April 5th, less than three months after the couple's January 14th nuptials. It was their second split -- the pair first divorced in 2001.
Depeche Mode's Greatest Reissued
DEPECHE MODE's three most popular albums to date will see deluxe reissues on May 16th. The band's 1981 debut, Speak and Spell, 1987's Music for the Masses and 1990's Violator will each be packaged with their original counterparts and sold as double-disc collections. The sets feature a bonus DVD, B-sides and remixes, as well as interviews with band members. Hits range from "Just Can't Get Enough" to "Personal Jesus."
Black Keys, Deerhoof Open for Radiohead
The BLACK KEYS and DEERHOOF have been tapped as openers for RADIOHEAD's June trek across North America. The Keys, currently at work on a follow-up to 2004's Rubber Factory, will open for the two-night engagements in Montreal, New York and Chicago, while San Francisco art rockers DEERHOOF will take over for the final leg, in California. Radiohead -- headlining this year's Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee, on June 17th -- kick off the tour June 1st in Philadelphia. More openers will be announced in the near future.
The Killers, Butch Ready New Albums
The KILLERS are currently recording their sophomore effort, due this September, at a studio in the Palms Casino in their native Las Vegas with producers FLOOD and ALAN MOULDER (NINE INCH NAILS, SMASHING PUMPKINS). Current titles, according to MTV, include "Bones," "Where the White Boys Dance," "For Reasons Unknown" and "My Lists." The neo-glam rockers' debut, Hot Fuss, sold over three million records, thanks to heavy radio play of "Mr. Brightside" and "Somebody Told Me." . . . Producer and singer-songwriter BUTCH WALKER will release his third solo effort, The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the LET'S GO OUT TONITES, on July 11th. Walker and his band (the Let's Go Out Tonites) will play Raleigh, North Carolina, July 22nd, with more tour dates slated for this summer.
Stephen Stills Warms Up With Solo Trek
Warming up for this summer's CROSBY, STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG Freedom of Speech tour, guitarist STEPHEN STILLS will kick off a mini solo tour in support of 2005's Man Alive! Wednesday in Minneapolis. The nine-date trek wraps May 14th in Norfolk, Virginia, with more solo dates to follow the CSNY run this fall. CSNY's two-month long tour begins July 6th in Camden, New Jersey.