The White Stripes : iSOUND.COM™

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Formed: 1997

iSound Site: www.isound.com/white_stripes

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The Compulsive Gamblers
Soledad Brothers
The Come Ons
The Strokes
Bantam Rooster
The Von Bondies
Pearlene
Mr. Airplane Man
The Paybacks
Love as Laughter
The Revelators
Geraldine
The Black Keys
The Hiss
Jim Mathus
The Little Killers
Louis XIV
BBQ
King Tobaccoville
Genres:
Garage Rock
Indie Rock

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	My Doorbell Released: 2008

Biography

The White Stripes, the garage-blues duo consisting of Jack and Meg White, are possibly one of the most complex and enigmatic bands today, yet play the simplest, most stripped-down, back-to-basics rock music I've heard in a long time.

The relationship between the pair has always been somewhat of a question mark; including Jack and Meg being the youngest of 10 children in a large Detroit family. The most common theory is that they are in fact a divorced couple, posing as brother and sister; with Jack's real name being John Anthony Gillis.

The White Stripes released their eponymous first album and quickly gained a reputation due to their unique, uncompromising blues-rock sound. Second album 'De Stijl' appeared in 2000, but the album which awakened critical acclaim and gained the band a new following was 2001's 'White Blood Cells'. From this, singles 'Fell In Love With A Girl', 'Hotel Yorba' and 'Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground' were taken. The band found themselves at the forefront of the new, gritty 'garage-rock' movement and followed up 'White Blood Cells' with 'Elephant', the first album to be recorded in the full glare of the media spotlight.

'7 Nation Army', the first single from the album, was released in 2003. Critics argued that the formerly bass-less duo used bass throughout the album. Fans just celebrated hearing stripped-down, raw blues in the Top 10.

The single propelled them to new heights. The album followed, as well as the second single, a cover version of 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself'. With this song, the band were dogged by tabloids over the raunchy Sofia Coppola-directed video, featuring supermodel Kate Moss writhing around a pole. The band's success and popularity however, were not dented in the slightest. Jack recorded vocals for fellow Detroit band Electric Six's 'Danger High Voltage' under the pseudonym John S. O'Leary, and wrote songs for the 2003 film 'Cold Mountain', in which he also made a guest appearance.

Bio written by: sid_loves_nancy

Artist Forum


Discussion Topic	Creator
The Hardest Button to button i luv that song so bad and the video all of you should check it out	aarluver

Replys	Listener
theres only 2 ppl in the band?.....new discoveries everyday...wow!	death_Stalker
i dont like niether. soul, simmer the fuck down, before u have an anurism.	icepickmetal
i like the white stripes, they are really talented for only 2 people in the band. and they are fun to listen 2	rancidropkick12cents
i love the white strips!sould u didn.t kno that?hey iriz.	PYroManiaC
I like the white stripes a lot. They are great. I like too much how does Meg play the drums!!	rockpunk_girl
well i only saw 2 ppl in the 7 nation army song, o well, i know now. Im simmering down. sizzle	death_Stalker
ran out of comments	icepickmetal
good!!!!!! MWHAHAHAHAHAHA! up...me 2....	death_Stalker
i noticed. SPREAD DA BLOOD OF DA INNOCENT!!!! hehehehe, now im out 4 good, more hate mail!!!	icepickmetal
lol. Rott the corpses of innocent children of the heavens. Paint a shrine to the dark lord with their blood!!! MWHAHAHAHA!!! o im out now...	death_Stalker
i paint my walls with blood from guinee pigs. no, really.	icepickmetal
thats nice, it their shit mixed in with it. no it really does make a nice hue.	death_Stalker
no, not that part, i usually just eat the organs. ewww, jk. im a vamp not cannibal...i think.	icepickmetal
eating other vampires is being a cannibal...not guinee pigs so go ahead and chow down. o can i try? grabs hearts and takes a nibble o this is good. chomp	death_Stalker
ha ha ha, in queen of the damned, aliyah takes a bite out of heart, funny funny funny shit...	icepickmetal
i know, that was sick!!!!!! shivershake o well grabs another domesticated vermin and rips out brain, munching happily	death_Stalker
try pigeons, kinda rough but tasty all the same!!! my arms still actin retarded damnit!!!	icepickmetal
whats wrong with ur arms? trys pigeon o ur right these r good!	death_Stalker
hm huh, try the gizzard! my arm keeps twitchin like an angry dog damnit!!!! i wanna chop it off!!!	icepickmetal
ok go ahead, i wanna c what a disembodied arm looked like!!! bring it to school!!! bites gizzard yummm	death_Stalker
2 messy, my mom mite notice. maybe i could just gnaw on it for a while, look! it stopped twitching!!!	icepickmetal
well, so much for your going away iriz... but whatever... oh, wow. that gizzard sounds really, appitizing..	unlabledgirl
appetizing....i mean	unlabledgirl
ehhhh	unlabledgirl
wanna try some??? shoves under unlabeled girls nose its good food!!!	death_Stalker
I WANT IT!!!	icepickmetal
YOU CANT HAVE IT!!! ITS MINE!!!	unlabledgirl
its delicious	unlabledgirl
fine. b that way. BUT I GET TO HAVE THE HEART!!!! rasberry	icepickmetal
haha very nice.. mmm delicous... homer noises	rancidropkick12cents
hey every1 happy halloween to you ppl who luvvvvvv halloween	aarluver
happy fuckin holloween. holloween suked ass....	icepickmetal
I went to church on holloween, you think yours sucked?	offguard
hahahaha... that would suck to go to church on halloween? my toes froze... haha	rancidropkick12cents
do any of u reckon meg is a robot??	just_jeans
MERRY FUCKIN CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!	PYroManiaC
and HAPPY NEW YEARS!	PYroManiaC
meg kinda is like a robot.. but thats ok,..... still talented lol	rancidropkick12cents
lol hows she like a robot?	PYroManiaC
im not exaclty sure... in all the videos she is just kinda robotish	rancidropkick12cents
lol like the fact that she doesnt do much? o well it doesnt matter...god i miss eddie	PYroManiaC
whos eddie? but she does i mean shes always kinda just there... meh... oh well... again, whos eddie?	rancidropkick12cents
lol my sexi ass boyfriend i kno it had nothin to do with ne thing but i couldnt help myself srry for the cnfusion lol.	PYroManiaC
she has a tiny head...	PYroManiaC
whos got a tiny head? i wanna know... is this eddie a TINY HEADED CHICK? im hyper.	rancidropkick12cents
LOL!everyone's just kinda off topic.LOL. i'm hyper! i had "SKITTLES!" OOPS!spelt it wrong!oh well!the white stripes are cool.vampires are cool too although i'm not one but you know.if i were my parents would most likely make me go to church then so i'll just stick to satanist for now and freakish goth.	mansonette2
hey i really really dont like these two people whats up with that relationship thing what are they brither sister husband wife cousins we dont know but they dont set it straight either so they dont care but i do like a couple of their songs and for not having a bass playing they sound really good i just dont like the words that they sing to the good music	notpunkbutposer
they are brother and sister... been a garage band since they were 13... just thought id say that..	rancidropkick12cents
did u know there not reely bro and sis they used to b married but got divorced i think.	Aidan
Ya... Jack showed MTV the divorse papers. and Jack isn't his real name. it's like John Gillis or something.	sparrow
umm...reeeeeeeealy? my friend met them at a show and uh..they are bro and sis.. : heh..ohwell	rancidropkick12cents
i have no clue as to as far as bro and sis go but i love the white stripes and i love jack white or whatever his "name" is.... hes awesome	smashmyh3art66six
I like the grimy sound of jacks voice and the underground sound of them since there is only two of them	jeklinhyd
I'm not shure what they are...but i did hear and see the divorce paper thingy on MTV...and anyways...back to the original subject...I only saw the video once a few days ago...and it was cool...except for Jack's kreepy mustache...eeeehh...	BJKing_NoMore1039