So The White Stripes, the rock band made up of Jack and Meg White, have announced a new album via press release — a press release that ends with a reference to a popular 1960s superhero TV show:

This note has been posted all over the internet, on Pitchfork and numerous message boards. Everyone’s got something to say about it, but so far, I haven’t seen anyone pick up on the obscure superhero reference in the letter’s closing byline:

“BY: Kitayana Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisofaa
Reporting for the MOSCOW BUGLE”

Who is the intrepid reporter broadcasting this “music scoop?”

For the answer we must turn, believe it or not, to Adam West’s crowning achievement, the 1966 Batman movie, which pitted West’s Batman and Burt Ward’s Robin against a campy cadre of super villains that included the Joker, The Riddler, the Penguin and Catwoman.

Following a brutal fight with a giant rubber shark, a scene that has yet to be matched in on-screen hokiness (watch it here), Batman and Robin hold a press conference in Commissioner Gordon’s office, hoping to sniff out some leads through the media.

At the conference Batman takes a question from a beautiful but impudent young Russian reporter who introduces herself by saying:

“Kitayana Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisofaa
Reporting for the MOSCOW BUGLE”

Great Scott indeed. Yes, the Stripes signed off with a fake identity used by Lee Meriwether’s Catwoman in a 60’s camp-fest superhero movie!

(Thanks, Brad!)

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