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| | White Lies - Are the White Stripes a blues band or just a sham? By Mark Jenkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The centerpiece of the White Stripes' new album, Elephant, is the seven-minute "Ball and Biscuit," a grinding, gleefully suggestive blues. |
 | | The new album was recorded at a London eight-track studio with no equipment built after 1963, and in recent interviews, frontman Jack White has dismissed the idea of musical progress altogether. |
 | | After all, this is a back-to-basics act that named its second album De Stijl, after a 1920s Dutch art movement whose minimalist palette apparently influenced the band's barber-pole attire (principally white and red, with fl touches). |
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