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Check out this amazing illustrated poster of White Mystery for the Rennes, France concert! Thanks to Thomas for organizing the show. Here’s the artist info!

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“This Weekend In New York: Frankie Rose Strips Down, White Mystery Rubs It In, And The Dirtbombs Double Up On Drums” By Jamie Peck Mon., Dec. 19 2011 at 11:30 AM

We wanted to stay for the rest of the bands, but Chicago’s White Mystery was playing Gramercy Theater at 11:30, and they’re not in town very often. Consisting of brother-sister duo Alex and Francis White, this band combines the raucous energy of garage-punk with above-average guitar proficiency. Both siblings bobbed their giant red ‘fros nonstop as sister Alex delivered the monster riffs and sang in a slightly raspy voice; it occasionally reminded me of Grace Slick’s in both its declarative confidence and the slight echo effect over it. Francis chimed in from behind the drum set, often making silly faces. At the end of their last song, Alex played the guitar with her whole body (including that magical ‘fro), rubbing it on herself and slinging it around to create ringing feedback. One gets the sense the White household was a fun place to grow up.

It’s an honor for White Mystery to be the Gossip Wolf subject of The Chicago Reader this week.  Artist Keith Herzig even fashioned a curly-haired, Orange-amp carrying cartoon seen here!  Read on:

“It seems like spring is the time for new vinyl pies from WHITE MYSTERY, the local sibling garage-rock duo of Alex and Francis White. After all, it was last March that their self-titled, self-released debut LP sprang into the world like flowers from the ground or some other Shakespearean shit. Well, it’s happening again! Following a spate of tour dates in the south and midwest this spring, the flame-haired group will drop their second album, Blood & Venom, on April 20. You can grab a slice the same day at Logan Square venue Pancho’s, which is hosting the band’s record-release show.”

Click here for the full article.