SAN ANTONIO — Jack White, the renowned guitarist and 12-time Grammy winner who released his latest album this summer, is coming to San Antonio. But not to the Alamodome, Frost Bank Center or other local venue matching the rocker's reputation.
Instead, White is coming to the comparatively smaller Paper Tiger, where the former White Stripes frontman will rock out Friday to a crowd of 1,000 at a relatively intimate show sure to blow the roof off the St. Mary's Strip venue. And if you haven't gotten tickets by now, good luck: a Paper Tiger spokesperson said tickets sold out less than an hour after going on sale Tuesday afternoon, a day after the show was announced.
If you have a valid student ID, however, Paper Tiger says they will have a "very limited number" of $25 tickets available starting noon Friday at the box office. They'll be sold on a first come, first serve basis.
Showtime is at 7 p.m. on the main stage.
White's latest album, "No Name" – initially distributed as a surprise, free release at his Third Man Records store this summer – has received major praise. Rolling Stone wrote that it amounts to "some of the best, most lively garage-blues crunch he's given us in many many moons, with just the right amount of eccentricity thrown in." He garnered a 2025 Grammy nod for Best Rock Album, his 34th career nomination.
Friday's show is one of a handful of concerts surprise-announced by Jack White on Monday. The others are also set for smaller venues of between 800 and 1,800 people in major cities like Tulsa, Dallas and Austin.
"The show has been in the works for a couple months," a Paper Tiger spokesperson said. "The shotgun announcement is a stylistic choice by Jack White and his team."
White's concert will follow in the footsteps of other big-name artists to visit Paper Tiger in the last decade, including Courtney Love, Lizzo and Doja Cat.
