"For the 10th anniversary of this band, we're going to play the 16 states we've never played before," frontman Jack White tells Billboard.
com. "And that way, we'd have played all 50 states in our 10th year. And, we're going to play every province and territory in Canada -- I don't know if it's ever been done.
We're going to play all the places we haven't been, and that's really appealing to us."
U.S.
dates get underway July 22 in Portland, Maine, and include a show two days later at New York's Madison Square Garden. The duo will be out in support of its upcoming album, "Icky Thump," due June 19 via Third Man/Warner Bros. The title track/first single is available at iTunes now.
Before visiting North America, the Stripes will play six shows in Europe in June and also drop by the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn.
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