White Stripes to play free L.A. show

Meg White (L) and Jack White of The White Stripes perform during the band's set at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles December 11, 2005. The rock duo will perform a free show for about 200 fans next Wednesday at an ''Icky Thump Records'' store specially built on the landmark Sunset Strip site of Tower Records, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tower Records may be dead, but its flagship outlet in Los Angeles still has some relevance to the music industry.

Rock duo the White Stripes will perform a free show for about 200 fans next Wednesday at an "Icky Thump Records" store specially built on the landmark Sunset Strip site, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

The ersatz store takes its name from the band's new album, "Icky Thump," which goes on sale in the United States next Tuesday.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. PDT show will be made available to the first 200 people who buy the album at the store after midnight on Monday. A handful of tickets will also be given away this weekend through a radio station.

"Icky Thump," the band's sixth album, marks the follow-up to "Get Behind Me Satan," which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 in 2005.

Reuters