In April, Jack and Meg White announced an unprecedented (for them) tour of Canada during which they would visit all ten provinces plus the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories. “Having never done a full tour of Canada, Meg and I thought it was high time to go whole hog,” Jack said at the time. The band did just that, performing everywhere from a bowling alley in Saskatoon to a bus in Winnipeg to a flour plant in Ontario. Check out our photo gallery featuring some of the more unusual stops on the trek.

Yesterday Rock Daily updated you on the Beatles “Yellow Submarine” iPod and in response, lots of you clamored for ‘Pods dedicated to KISS, the White Stripes, David Bowie, Prince and the Rolling Stones — so we made them for you. Click here for a look at how we imagine these special-edition iPods might look.

But whichever actually manufactured iPod you wind up with, beware: CNN reports that iPod users are suffering severe electrocution burns after getting struck by lightning while jamming to their favorite tunes. An unidentified Canadian jogger was running during a thunderstorm when lightening hit a nearby tree and jumped to his body, throwing him eight feet and leaving red burns where his iPod was strapped to his body. Last summer, 18-year-old Jason Bunch suffered a similar fate while listening to Metallica as a storm brewed nearby. Both victims had ruptured eardrums, as well. (more…)

The White Stripes have scored a career-best debut with their sixth album, Icky Thump. Last week, 223,056 people bought copies of the blues-rock duo’s latest opus, securing them the number two spot on the Billboard charts behind Bon Jovi (whose Lost Highway moved 291,532 copies). This marks both the White Stripes’ highest chart debut ever and their hottest week of sales: 2005’s Get Behind Me Satan entered the charts at number three, selling 189,000 copies in its first week. Somewhere, Jack and Meg are surely clinking Red Stripes (to a rigid beat) in celebration.

[Photo: Autumn de Wilde]