Photo: Sophie Harris

Just hours ago, Jack White’s Dead Weather band played a teeny tiny show in a basement on Chrystie Street, and TONY was there. The show marks the release of the Dead Weather’s Horehound album and the band’s two nights at Terminal 5, starting tonight—and also the opening of a pop-up shop for Jack White’s Third Man label. Fulfilling pretty much all your White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather needs, the store stocks a ton of merch, so if you’re feeling a sudden urge to buy a “Meg” Lomo camera, a rare 12-inch or a button badge, get down there.

But fans started lining up outside the store starting at 6am today, to get into the show—a handful of folks even camped out last night to guarantee entrance. And what a show it was. After the jump, more photos of the band’s performance and of the Third Man store, a full recap, and a video of TV presenter Matt Pinfield—who was personally invited by Jack White to be a guest clerk at the store.

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This just in: To mark the release of The Dead Weather’s Horehound album, Jack White’s Third Man Records will open a special pop-up store in NYC, which you can visit next Thursday and Friday  (July 16 and 17) only. Fans of the Dead Weather can snap up a copy of the record, as well as other bits of Third Man merch (last time we checked it had some lovely buttons) at 31 Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey, between 10am and 6pm. And yes, we hope as much as you do that it’s Jack behind the register.

Come on, Jack White. We really thought you were ready to show the Raconteurs their way out the door when you appeared with Meg for the last Late Night with Conan O’Brien. We thought to ourselves, The White Stripes are back.

How foolish. We should’ve know you’d start another band with members from the Kills, Queens of the Stone Age and the aforementioned White Stripes side project. What we could have never guessed: that you’d be playing drums.

“Hang You from the Heavens”:

Well, at least it’s better than the Raconteurs.