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Data Cloud. Artist and Venue Tour Histories. The White Stripes. When the duo learned they were going to be the HotStar, they wanted to surprise some of their industry reps. Subscription Customer Service. Online Help Desk. I knew what he was talking about — from recording at their house to a track studio. We didn't come close to using all those tracks. Basically he wanted it as raw as possible, but better than if it was recorded in somebody's living room. He steered me that way, and I ran with it.

In summer , Great Britain caught White Stripes fever. Enthusiastically introduced to the British public by influential radio jock John Peel, the band staged a quick club tour in August and found itself the focus of a media frenzy, hailed as the savior of rock 'n' roll.

Amid it all, Jack and Meg toyed with the press, continuing to insist they were siblings — part of a sly mystique that many close to the band remain reluctant to talk about.

In Groningen, there's a great record shop. They'd got "White Blood Cells," and it just looked so interesting, just the concept of it.

I bought it, brought it home, listened to it, and started playing it on the radio. That sort of proper, over-the-top guitar playing — where you're actually playing something — has always been something I've enjoyed very much.

So it was just good to hear that kind of guitar sound again. MILLER: People have made this big deal about Detroit having a history of the way bands present themselves visually, the rawness and emotion of the music, and that's something Jack's always been all about — having that real emotion come through.

Sometimes it's a little bit deceptive, intentionally — there's a little bit of irony. PEEL: It was an extraordinary time. The thing was, it wasn't hype.

The NME magazine has a kind of an obligation to find a new sensation every week, because that's what sells the paper. But I think people were just relieved at the simplicity and the directness of the White Stripes, and the fact they were making a noise they could identify with.

We're kind of hoping that all the fake attention we're getting lately will go away. In the meantime, we're trying to decide how to respond. It was kind of funny to everybody. I think there's still skepticism some people have about it. Jack and Meg White returned from a second British tour to a triumphant homecoming concert at a jam-packed Detroit Institute of Arts in November — 3, fans and a Detroit city flag behind them. With industry interest growing, the band took a call from V2 Records, a label with hefty distribution and marketing power via the BMG conglomerate.

And then the DIA performance — I didn't go, but my dad did, and he thought it was just amazing. So I'm listening to this cassette in the car as I'm driving over the weekend. She'd put on "Hello Operator. I went out and got "De Stijl" five minutes later. Then I found the first record, and then "White Blood Cells" a day later. This was the type of band that I found completely fascinating musically and conceptually.

When you look at it — the whole "brother-and-sister" thing, dressed in red and white, really raw — I figured this will never get on the radio. But I didn't care about getting hits. The White Stripes agreed to a deal with V2 — an unusual contract that let them retain control of their work, including ownership of the recordings. I mean, they got the masters in the end; Jack got his own label.

It was Jack. PEEL: When they first did something live for my program, we'd gone around the corner to this Thai restaurant for a meal — a producer and myself and Jack and Meg. I was amazed when Jack was perfectly happy to talk about things from my own childhood, because he knew them and he didn't think it was uncool to know them. So we were talking about one of the great concerts of my life, when I saw Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent play at the Liverpool Empire, four days before Eddie Cochran was killed in a car crash.

And I thought, what a nice thing to do, but also incredibly cool. A British band couldn't do that — they don't have that kind of flexibility. Jack was like, "Hold on, I'll be right back. This was like a year ago — he'd already been on the cover of magazines. And he still reupholstered my furniture. She's like all the Detroit rock girls — they party hard. Meg is a classic example that just because you don't play a lot doesn't mean you can't play.

Meg has more swing than most drummers I know. It's hard to be put in the spotlight like that, but the first time they played "SNL" and David Letterman, she was so at ease.

And then there were all these people writing letters: "Well, why are they posing for the cover of magazines, why are they making videos for MTV, if they have no idea 'why we're here'?

In other words, the band isn't "mad" or "whining" about their success and popularity — MTV awards, magazine covers, commercial radio airplay, album sales. They're just surprised by it, and they can't really explain it. Between tours overseas, Jack and Meg continued to pop up at clubs around Detroit to hang out. They had it down. I'm a cynical musician, but I couldn't quit watching. It's hard to entertain a whole theater with two people. It was quite a feat.

There was a level of authority that Jack and Meg had on there. They knew exactly what they were doing.

MILLER: They're at an interesting point right now where they just get bombarded with requests — "This film wants to use this song from this album," things like that. It's harder now. The band's publicist had to stop answering her phone and just leave a message: "If this is about the White Stripes, I'm taking requests by e-mail only.

As wound down, the pair headed to a London studio to cut tracks for their next album. This one has guitar solos, some guitar instrumentation that he hadn't used before. He's pushing the songwriting. PEEL: When "Elephant" came along, I listened to it and I thought they have taken that necessary next step, when people might have thought, "Well, they're played out, they've done as much as they can do.

FISCHER: I think there's some people around Detroit who would have a problem with the band that wasn't the beginning of the '90s Detroit garage rock scene now being the band that gets all the attention. But they're a great band, and they deserve whatever they get.

Anyone who feels sour grapes is an idiot. Who wouldn't want the music that is their heritage to get the attention? Not in a bad way, but like, wow, that's crazy. As a kid, you dream about wanting to be a rock star. And here he is on a magazine cover. He's a rock star, and he's a kid we all know. HARLOW: With any band that would get huge — like the White Stripes — I imagine there are other bands that feel like they've been around longer, they've put more time into it, and feel like they deserve it.

Everybody still parties together and has a good time together. That's gotta be a little weird. It was funny — her manager was asking, "So, what's Detroit like?

Don't you ever want to move anyplace else? It's not the most cosmopolitan place in the world. But as Jack pointed out, we're not leaving — "Detroit's home. Mick Collins: Vocalist, the Gories and the Dirtbombs. Godfather of modern Detroit garage. Dan Miller: Guitarist-vocalist, Blanche. Helmed two of Jack White's early bands. Template:Otheruses4 Template:Infobox musical artist. The White Stripes are a Grammy Award -winning American rock music duo from Detroit , Michigan consisting of songwriter Jack White on guitar , piano , lead vocals , and Meg White on drums , percussion and vocals.

The group rose to prominence as part of the garage rock revival with their successful albums, White Blood Cells and Elephant. The White Stripes are known for their raw low fidelity sound and simplicity of composition and arrangement mostly inspired by punk rock , [1] American blues , folk rock , [2] and country music. An anniversary show to be held in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia , sold out in twelve minutes. The White Stripes i.

See in music. While Jack and Meg have claimed to be siblings, [7] numerous sources have proven that they are in fact a divorced couple. Their second release, De Stijl , was named after the De Stijl the style Dutch art movement which they cited as a source for the approach to their musical image.

De Stijl-style art was used on the cover of the album, which was recorded on an 8-track analog tape recorder in Jack's living room, although he said he would never use that technique again as there were many interruptions during the recording. Elephant , the band's follow-up to White Blood Cells. The White Stripes enjoyed their first significant success during with the release of their first major label album White Blood Cells initially released on Sympathy for the Record Industry ; the album was re-released on V2 Records in The stripped-down garage rock sound drew critical acclaim in the UK , and in the United States soon afterward, making The White Stripes one of the more acclaimed bands of Their follow-up album, entitled Elephant , was released on April 1 , , again to widespread critical acclaim and even more commercial success, as it became The White Stripes' first UK chart-topper and US Top 10 album.

During their "50 Years of Rock and Roll" celebration, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it as the th best album of all time. The album's third single was the quite successful " The Hardest Button to Button ". Released in , the music film Under Blackpool Lights was filmed entirely using 16mm film and was directed by Dick Carruthers.

Jack White alerted fans to the film's more cryptic elements on his site postings, one of which was undoubtedly the writing scrawled on his arm.

The film features a cover of the Dolly Parton song, " Jolene ". In that year, Rolling Stone magazine raved, "If you happen to be a rock band, and you don't happen to be either of the White Stripes, it so sucks to be you right now. White's new spouse appears in the video for the song, and the second single was " My Doorbell ". The song was later released on December 7 , as the Walking with a Ghost EP featuring four other live tracks.

The White Stripes are one of the few bands to perform on the show. On a previous show, the group Tenacious D also performed a song after their interview. The White Stripes postponed the Japanese leg of their world tour after Jack strained his vocal cords. Doctors recommended that Jack not sing or talk for two weeks, and he fully recovered and returned to the stage in Auckland, New Zealand to headline the Big Day Out tour.

White has since toured with the band through the rest of the year. The song was sung to serenade Roma's players on the national team, most notably Francesco Totti. The Italian fans often chanted the song's signature guitar riff. On October 12 , , it was announced on the White Stripes official website that there would be an album of avant-garde orchestral recordings consisting of past music written by Jack White called Aluminium.

The album was made available for pre-order on November 6 , to great demand from the band's fans, the LP version of the project sold out in a little under a day. Richard Russell co-produced the album with Joby Talbot.

The album is available exclusively through the Aluminium website as a numbered limited edition of 3, CDs with LP's also produced but now sold out. The download format will not be limited, and will come with an electronic booklet. On January 12 , it was announced that in the process of reconstruction, V2 Records will no longer release new White Stripes material, leaving the band currently without a label.

The White Stripes official web site announced on February 28 , that Icky Thump will be the name of the band's sixth studio album. A statement on the band's official website , spuriously attributed to "Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisof of the Moscow Bugle " a reference to Batman: The Movie [21] claims that:. It is entitled Icky Thump, and is their first album to include a title track, which curiously and not ironically has the same words in it's [sic] name. Though some residents of northern England might almost recognize the title, the Stripes stress they are spelling it wrong intentionally just for "kicks" and "metaphors", and to avoid a possible lawsuit from the estate of Billy Eckstine.

The song "I'm Slowly Turning into You" was featured in a video on the band's official website. The video depicts Jack White in the studio recording the vocals for the song while a skeletal figure dances in the background.

It is also noted on their official MySpace website that "the actual music [of the video] has been replaced with mid eighties sampling keyboard technology to prevent what industry analysts are now calling 'song poaching.