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  The White Stripes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The White Stripes are a minimalist rock and roll duo from Detroit, formed in 1997.
The second release from the White Stripes, "De Stijl" (2000), was named after a minimalist Dutch art movement, which they cited as a source for the approach to their music and image.
The White Stripes enjoyed their first significant success in the UK in 2001, with the critical acclaim, especially for the band's energetic stage performances, spreading to the US in the following months.
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 The White Stripes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The White Stripes are an American minimalist rock duo from Detroit, composed of Jack White on guitar, piano and lead vocals, and Meg White on drums.
The White Stripes are known for their raw low fidelity sound and the simplicity of their compositions and arrangements mostly inspired by punk rock, American blues and country music.
The White Stripes is one of the few bands to perform on the show (on an earlier show, the group Tenacious D had performed a song after their interview).
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : The White Stripes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The White Stripes are a minimalist rock and roll duo from Detroit, formed on Bastille Day, 1997, composed of Jack White and Meg White, who rose to prominence with their albums White Blood Cells and Elephant.
Jack White studied fine arts for a brief period at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit before De Stijl was released, although he never graduated.
On June 1, 2005 Jack White and model Karen Elson were married during the band's tour of South America, in the Amazon River in an indian celebration.
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 washingtonpost.com: The White Stripes, Plain and Simple
The White Stripes are dirt simple -- Jack thrashing away on his guitar and singing with unbridled passion, pony-tailed Meg bashing away at her drum kit with workmanlike focus.
The White Stripes formed in 1997 when Meg stepped into the attic while Jack was playing guitar, sat down at the drum kit and started bashing away, despite never having played before.
The White Stripes recently moved from Sympathy for the Record Industry to the larger V2 (and in England, XL Records).
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 The_White_Stripes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The White Stripes are a minimalist rock/blues duo from Detroit, composed of Jack White on guitar and lead vocals, and Meg White on drums.
The White Stripes (Megan Martha White, drums, vocals; and Jack White, guitar, piano, lead vocals) were formed in Detroit in 1997, specifically Bastille Day (see 1997 in music).
The Stripes have been tapped to appear in an upcoming episode of "The Simpsons", scheduled to air sometime this fall.
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 White Stripes: White Blood Cells: Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Meg White's kit is bashed with such force you'd imagine her as some kind of incredible hulk, though in photos, she appears the prototypical indie girl-- waifish, with pigtails and a nasty smirk.
Here, the White Stripes are the most experimental they get, which is to say "not very," though the song reminds me of the ragged power of Royal Trux without the pointless artiness.
White Blood Cells doesn't veer far from the formula of past White Stripes records; all are tense, sparse and jagged.
pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/w/white-stripes/white-blood-cells.shtml   (979 words)

  
 White Stripes Tickets - White Stripes Concert Tickets
The White Stripes released their second LP, De Stijl, in 2000 and it further spread the group's reputation.
The album was a critical smash and the White Stripes soon found themselves, along with the Strokes and the Hives, at the forefront of the new wave of rock and roll bands poised to take over the world.
The White Stripes truly became big time rock stars when their "Fell in Love with a Girl" clip was nominated for four MTV Video Awards including Best Video of the Year (alongside Eminem and *NSYNC!), Breakthrough Video, Best Special Effects in a Video and Best Editing in a Video.
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 TIME.com: Music: White Lies and The White Stripes -- Page 1
But to Detroit, and to knowledgeable fans across the nation, the White Stripes are, first, a band with great songs and a distinctive sound, and second, a former husband and wife with a savvy sibling act that has duped the press.
The cover of White Blood Cells depicts a horde of fl-clad attackers surrounding the two band members; open the CD case, and a second picture reveals the thugs to be paparazzi with cameras.
But at the White Stripes' most recent show in Detroit, the last of three consecutive sold- out performances in the area, the pleasure the crowd took at the two local kids' success was palpable.
www.time.com /time/sampler/article/0,8599,130930,00.html   (1113 words)

  
 De Stijl (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
De Stijl is the second album by American rock band The White Stripes, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music).
Lead singer Jack White had been an admirer of the movement for a long time, especially of Gerrit Rietveld who made furniture but also designed the Rietveld Schröder House, which Jack and Meg visited while they were on tour in The Netherlands.
All songs written by The White Stripes, except where noted.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/De_Stijl_(album)   (301 words)

  
 BBC - Music / Profiles - The White Stripes
Jack White struggles to come to terms with the UK media frenzy surrounding their rise to stardom.
The White Stripes perform "Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground", on Top of the Pops in 2002.
Their wardrobe is limited to red and white; the colours of the famous American peppermint sweet from which their name is derived.
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 The White Stripes New Music Album Get Behind Me Satan Mp3, Lyrics, Videos, Pics, News.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The White Stripes’ Jack White is ready for a break as he slips behind the wheel of his vintage four-seat Thunderbird and switches on the ignition.
White’s outside work with Loretta Lynn and Brendan Benson has led to speculation that “Satan” will be the final White Stripes album, but there is something about the partnership with Meg that White seems to prize too much to let go.
White's marriage comes less than a month after former girlfriend actress Renée Zellweger tied the knot with country musician Kenny Chesney in a surprise ceremony on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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The White Stripes are often cited as the next, best hope of rock n’ roll.
Meg White might be the worst drummer in all of rock, but Jack White needs her like an umbilical cord.
Watching Jack White on stage, blasting around like a caged animal, but regularly, compulsively, hovering back to that drum kit for nourishment, one gets the sense the cord may be cut soon, but that it's gonna be hard for both.
www.bullz-eye.com /entertainers/white_stripes.htm   (650 words)

  
 The White Stripes
The White Stripes enjoyed their first significant success during 2001 with the release of their first major label album White Blood Cells.
In some interviews, the group has said that the colors red and white are from peppermint (representing childhood innocence) and the color fl represents the equilibrium of the number three.
The White Stripes are a minimalist rock duo from Detroit.
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 The White Stripes - PopMatters Concert Review
Sure, most of the Boston crowd was hoping the band would rock as hard as they do on record, but few could have imagined the raw crush of sound that came from the hands, feet and lungs of the baby-faced guy in a red jumpsuit and his pig-tailed older sister.
Meg White is the perfect drummer -- sensing exactly when to thrash, pound and wail, and when to do nothing but hit the high-hat or floor tom on every other beat.
Of course, Jack White is doing the work of both Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, and don't think for a second that he's another in the line of Led-clones.
www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/w/white-stripes-020403.html   (1132 words)

  
 Monkey Jimmy's Friend
These are questions he has asked me about the White Stripes and their songs and I relayed them to the band.
Jack White: No, The monkey "Jimmy" has not stopped jumping on the bed for the last week but when he does it is only so that he     can explode things that are not the color red.
Jack White: Perhaps on the back cover Meg and I are blood cells...or perhaps she is on the dirty ground and I am in happiness...or perhaps I'm dragging her into a place she doesn't want to be or maybe she's pulling me out of it.
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 Amazon.co.uk: The White Stripes: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
he White Stripes are a band that I listen to in amazement every time I put one of their albums in my CD player.
Jack White is in the early development stages of realising his true potential, and Meg White is the perfect counterpart.
The White Stripes truly continue to inform the world of rock, soul and music in general the way they only know how to- with a guitar and a drum kit.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Q4Q2   (1671 words)

  
 The White Stripes Community
DETROIT -- A trial began Monday on a federal lawsuit by a producer who worked on the first two White Stripes albums and says he played a pivotal role in creating the two-member rock band's signature sound and deserves a share of the royalties.
Meg White and Jack White of "The White Stripes" are shown in New York in this May 5, 2004, file photo.
A trial began in Detroit Monday, June 12, 2006, on a federal lawsuit by Jim Diamond, a producer who worked on the first two White Stripes albums, who says he played a pivotal role in creating the band's signature sound and deserves a share of the royalties.
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 The White Stripes MP3 Downloads - The White Stripes Music Downloads - The White Stripes Music Videos
The whites showed to the whole world that you do not need to have huge producers and producting teams to write great rock music.
Jack white is truely a genious and although his music is simple...
the white stripes are the best band ever and are true altrnative rock.
www.mp3.com /the-white-stripes/artists/338895/summary.html   (367 words)

  
 White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan (2005): Reviews
White's commercial success has nothing to do with de Stijl or da blooze--just a strong, emotive voice delivering simple yet distinctive songs, which are fairly numerous here.
A very strange album, which shreds the old White Stripes rulebook (no bass, just guitar and drums) and pushes into territories way beyond the blues and rock of their previous four records.
Jack White is experimenting with the boundaries of his own songwriting, instead of the distortion through his amplifiers.
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/whitestripes/getbehindmesatan   (1420 words)

  
 White Stripes: 'The White Stripes' and 'De Stijl': Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jack and Meg White's first two raucous platters are coming back at you in the biggest redistribution by a major label of still-available albums by fake-sibling bands beginning with the letter W since Elektra fancified Gene and Dean Ween's early catalog!
Fans are reportedly color-coordinating their outfits at Stripes shows, further shearing the curtain between indie rockers and Delta Chi Omegas at homecoming.
The puerile veneer that has driven some to judge the Stripes as stunted in their tweens is yet to emerge, although many fans in their thirties have voiced gratitude for a band that can be counted on to help them forget that they have kids to beat and dishes to break.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/w/white-stripes/white-stripes-de-stijl.shtml   (1852 words)

  
 THE WHITE STRIPES
The Whites, variously assumed to be husband and ex-wife or brother and sister, but both denied, formed their new band in 1997.
Judging from their facial looks it initially seemed likely the duo were brother and sister, but the matter was confused by Jack White stating that the couple were once married and the posting of a marriage license and divorce certificate on the Internet.
The Whites' striking stage presence, dressed in minimalist red and white outfits, is allied to their thrilling grasp of the rudiments of timeless rock music.
www.whitestripes.net /band-info.php   (436 words)

  
 The White Stripes
The White Stripes are the brother and sister duo of Jack and Meg White, they are from Detroit and were playing the first date of their New Zealand tour in Hamilton.
Meg White’s drumming was nicely understated; some songs involved mainly kick-drum, snare and floor tom action, so when she hit the cymbals you really noticed it.
Jack White would bound from one vocal mic to the other (and even sang into one of the drum mics on their closing song ‘Screwdriver’) and alternated between a stylish red and white electric guitar of unknown origin and an electric acoustic, covered in what looked like brown paper.
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