Into The Music
Jack White announced a European tour on Thursday, and the dates are the kind that make the wait worthwhile. The run covers major venues across the continent through summer 2026, marking his first extended European run since the No Name Tour wrapped last year. No support acts have been confirmed yet, but White’s solo shows tend to be all the spectacle they need to be.
This is what Jack White does: he tours constantly, he records constantly, and he keeps finding ways to make the same basic formula feel urgent. Guitar, voice, rhythm section, some chaos, a lot of red and white. Since the White Stripes dissolved in 2011, he has released four solo records, maintained the Raconteurs, kept Third Man Records running as a genuinely independent label force, and never seemed to stop moving.
The man is from Detroit, and you can hear that in everything he does. There is a restlessness in his music, a suspicion of comfort, a preference for friction over smoothness. His production choices are deliberately difficult. His live shows are loud and strange and sometimes confrontational. He does not particularly care if you find any of it approachable, and that indifference is, paradoxically, a big part of the appeal.
White emerged in the late 1990s with Meg White as the White Stripes, playing a version of raw blues-influenced garage rock that had no real contemporary equivalent. The band sounded old on purpose, a deliberate refusal of digital polish at the exact moment that digital polish was becoming the default. They were the most interesting thing happening in rock for most of the 2000s, and then they stopped.
What followed has been a solo career that rewards sustained attention. Blunderbuss in 2012 was an angry, layered breakup album that played with Nashville and blues and psychedelia. Lazaretto in 2014 doubled down on experimentation. Boarding House Reach in 2018 was divisive and difficult and better than most people initially gave it credit for. Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive, both released in 2022, came out within months of each other and together formed his most complete solo statement to date.
The European tour announcement does not come with a new album, at least not yet. But with White, there is usually something cooking. The Third Man Records machine does not slow down, and White himself treats prolificacy as a kind of moral position. He is one of the few artists working today who genuinely seems to believe that making more is always the answer, and he makes enough good music that it is hard to argue with him.
Ticket details are being rolled out market by market. If you are in Europe and have not seen him live, this is the run to catch.