2021 VIDEO GAME

Just when you thought White Mystery couldn’t do 4/20 any cooler, we went ahead and produced the first ever weed video game based in Chicago for Dispensary 33! Waldos Forever features a little alien who hops L trains, nabs pizza and dodges rats to make his way to the cannabis emporium. We developed the concept and united with Raft Labs to bring this 8-bit NES style game to life on mobile and desktop. Play now!

2020 WORLDWIDE STREAM

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, White Mystery presented 4/20/2020 online with a 420 x 4/20 x 4:20 live virtual stream that featured performances by Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Live, Cadien from Twin Peaks, Shannon Shaw from Shannon & the Clams, Rylan Wilder of Monarchy Over Monday with Neptunes Core, Brian Hurd of Daddy Long Legs, Jason Narducy of Bob Mould, Psalm One, and more super stars. Thousands of folks tuned in worldwide, and you can watch archived footage on YouTube here!

2019 CHICAGO

White Mystery rocked Dispensary 33 for thousands of people at Waldo’s Forever Fest in Andersonville. Big Freedia headlined and made the shake stage with authentic New Orleans Bounce Music! It was bonkers.

2018 CHICAGO

10 year anniversary…1000th show…9th record release…April 20, 2018 is the date White Mystery concludes it’s decade-long social experiment. For the past ten years, we’ve stayed 100% independent, and duked out the good fight of rocking and rolling worldwide. We will always be White Mystery, though, what happens next is truly…the mystery.

2017 Los Angeles

White Mystery “F.Y.M.S” record release wants to wine you, dine you, and 69 you at the Monty with Jesus Sons and Zig Zags! A good time was had by all in Los Angeles, California.

2016 Grand Rapids

Michigan is an important mitten-shaped state to the White Mystery history and we are thankful for all that attended the OUTTA CONTROL record release party at the Pyramid Scheme!

2015 Chicago

White Mystery premiered it’s first ever feature-length film, “That Was Awesome” to a sold out audience at the Logan Theatre on April 20, 2015 for the Chicago International Music & Movies Fest. Guests walked the “green carpet” and enjoyed the critically acclaimed psychedelic dark comedy produced and directed by Miss Alex White! See the trailer on VICE.

2014 The Netherlands

What better place to spend 4/20 than the Netherlands? White Mystery released “DUBBLE DRAGON” to a packed house at dBs near Amsterdam on April 20, 2014. The gatefold of the double album was even designed by a Dutch artist named KIKI and High Times featured the event.

2013 San Francisco

White Mystery invited 12 of it’s favorite West Coast bands to play the “PSYCHEDELIC MELTDOWN” at Brick & Mortar in the Mission on April 20, 2013 to release the third album, “Telepathic” in San Francisco. Orange Amps, Cutty Sark, and Airheads sponsored the event, and we released a White Mystery coloring book! Click for more.

2012 Brooklyn, New York

Inspired by the Rolling Stones, White Mystery organized a “Rock’n’Roll Circus” with bands, a ventriloquist, acrobats, contortionists, and video projection artists at Big Sky Works in Brooklyn, New York. The show sold out to celebrate the release of “People Power” and a memorable night was had by all— captured by Impose Magazine in these incredible photos here.

2011 Chicago

Back in 2011, there was an up-and-coming neighborhood called Logan Square, and a old dive called Pancho’s. White Mystery sold out a double header with two concerts in one night on April 20, 2011— an all-ages early show with Loose Dudes and adult show later that night with Rabble Rabble. The Onion donated a quarter page print advertisement to promote the release of White Mystery’s second album, “Blood & Venom.” More info in the original post.

2010 Chicago

The first ever White Mystery 4/20 event was a hot box at the old Miss Alex White apartment, 2826 W. Dickens. Friends gathered on the street at 4:20pm and were led upstairs for a White Mystery show in the dining room to celebrate the first ever White Mystery album. While the party was small, The Chicago Reader was there!

Sibling duo White Mystery is dedicated to three things: each other, their music and 4/20. 

Vocalist/guitarist Miss Alex White and drummer Francis Scott Key White have released eight albums to date, each released on April 20. They also have an online TV channel about video games, weed smoking and rock’n’roll.

Read our full-length interview with the band here. And click here to watch White Mystery TV.

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White Mystery performed on the 90th floor roof of the Willis Tower on Sunday, September 11, 2016. The good people at Core12 videotaped the redheaded rock’n’roll combo perform their song about Chicago, “Take a Walk,” which includes the appropriate lyrics, “Just look down.”

It’s an honor to be a part of Chicago history, and be the first band to play the top of the tallest building in Chicago. Stay tuned for video of the record-breaking show at the Willis Tower. Photos by Phil Contursi www.SpaceStagestudios.com 

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White Mystery

PHOTO: DIANE WHITE

CITY: Chicago
SONG TO DOWNLOAD: “Powerglove”
WEBSITE: whitemystery.bandcamp.com

WHY THEM: Our first experience with Chicago’s guitar-rock duo White Mystery was every bit the match for their boy-girl take on guitar/drums grunge: half-drunk in a sweltering Brooklyn basement with the band backlit in such a way as to cause us to question whether or not they really both had flaming-red, curly hair or if it was just a trick of the lighting, the levels set to a deafening volume and bodies flying everywhere. Turns out the bit about the hair is true, and their music is every bit as ferocious as we half-remembered. On their self-titled debut, the siblings yelp stories in tandem over a mess of guitars and drums reflective of the abandon and bravado now expected from their region of the US (see: Black Keys, White Stripes, etc.). Only, instead of singing about love and loss and whatever, the stories tend toward a tongue-in-cheek take on the everyday. Like Miss Alex’s preferred transportation (walking) or when she met her best friend (Halloween). Rock and roll? Hell yeah.

ALSO CONSIDERED: YAWN — It’s pop in a light-hearted, twee style reminiscent of Architecture in Helsinki or even Vampire Weekend. Their homonymous EP is full of marimba, group chants, and samples of children laughing.

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