Carrying the torch
	Diana Krall, jazz's It Girl, on stardom, sexiness, and songs that make her cry by JIM MACNIE

Disco ducks Post-punk gets a groove by DOUGLAS WOLK

Local Anesthesia: Thinking big Grüvis Malt aim high with Spirit of a Traffic Jam by BOB GULLA

"If you're working in your little room, and you're working on something good," sings Jack White on a song from the White Stripes' breakthrough album White Blood Cells, "then you're gonna need a bigger room." Well, that time has arrived. Having served an apprenticeship in the Detroit garage-punk underground, the candy-striped duo have seen White Blood Cells (originally on Sympathy for the Record Industry) break onto MTV and get picked up by V2. And now that "Fell in Love with a Girl" is beginning to infiltrate rock radio, Strokes versus White Stripes is shaping up to be the Beatles-versus-Stones debate of 2002. The Stripes are at the Roxy (617-931-2000) in Boston on Wednesday and at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence next Thursday, April 4.

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