This week's dustup between Jack White and Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney is just the latest shot fired in a long line of actual battles of the bands.
Just as an album's opening song plays a pivotal part in a record's cycle, the closing track serves a similar and not totally unrelated purpose.
In a way, the final song is the summation of an LP's musical and thematic themes, a final word on the past 45 or so minutes...
In a new interview, Blur bassist Alex James said that the feuding between his band and Oasis, who have historically been adversarial, has quieted down.