The live album "Under Great Northern Lights" chronicles The Whites Stripes' 2007 trek across Canada. The accompanying tour documentary shows Meg and Jack White on and off stage, in what could quite possibly be their final tour. Well, final tour as The White Stripes anyway. Jack has so many side projects, Meg is bound to show up in one of them eventually. (Listen to the full album now on Spinner.) Also in stores:
-- Fans of Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields will want to check out his score for the Off-Broadway musical production of Neil Gaiman's "Coraline." A musical and a movie? What will "Coraline" become next? Pogs, perhaps? Okay, probably not pogs.
-- Does your knowledge of The Runaways begin and end with "Cherry Bomb"? Well, the "Mercury Albums Anthology: The Runaways" is here to educate you on the musical stylings of Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Cherie Currie and the rest, before the Kristen Stewart / Dakota Fanning movie hits theaters. Hopefully the sequel will be set in the '80s when Jett was with the Blackhearts and Ford hung out with Ozzy.
-- Ludacris continues his scientific investigation into the correlation between low-rise pants and a woman's stature on "How Low," the lead single off "Battle of the Sexes." Is he supposed to be one of the mirror ghosts from the Haunted Mansion ride in that video?
