The White Stripes

[mr_yoshimaroka]

Check the song "Jolene" it's a great one.

If I'm not mistaken, Jolene is a cover.

[Judge Dredd]

Check the song "Jolene" it's a great one.

If I'm not mistaken, Jolene is a cover.

Yup, it's a Dolly Parton song.

But the new album is great. I've been a fan of theirs here in the UK before they 'exploded', and I think the new album is their best.

[Doc Emmett Brown]

'exploded' as in Oasis-style explosion?? 

They never really exploded in the US.  I think even My Chemical Romance is currently bigger than the White Stripes.  Pity.

[Queen of Everything]

The White Stripes are cool! I agree that they arent 110% Talent!! But they have really good stage presence for just two people a set of drums and a guitar! They are an awesome band and they have produced some really kick arse music!!!

 :peace:Rock on!!!!!

[Dot]

They do have a good presence onstage and offstage considering there?s only 2 in the band. The new album is nowhere as good as Elephant, but it is a good effort. "Little Ghost" I don?t really like, "Passive Manipulation" is a total piece of crap, If I had a band and recorded an album, I wouldn?t have the balls to put on my record such a piece of useless shit.

As for "Blue Orchid", the first impression I got of it was that it sounded as if Led Zeppelin had released a new single featuring Angus Young.

[WhiteRose]

First off, there appears to be two separate threads for the White Stripes... so I'm posting in the more "recent" of the two.? Perhaps a mod would be kind enough to merge both of them into one unified thread.?

Anyway, for those of us here who appreciate the White Stripes...

Cheers,
W.R.


The White Stripes Become Free Agents

Ed Christman, N.Y.
Sheridan Square has basically shuttered its frontline V2 record business as part of restructuring to focus on its catalog releases and the future opportunities presented by digital distribution.

Today (Jan. 12), the company let go its V2 staff, including president Andy Gershon, and will reorganize the business in its Nashville office, where the company's COO Michael Olsen will oversee the catalog business. About 35 people are believed to have lost their jobs as part of the restructuring.

As part of that move, the company will retain the White Stripes catalog, but will no longer issue new music by the duo or other frontline artists such as Moby or the Raconteurs, sources say. The only genre the company plans to participate in the frontline going forward is gospel.

Gershon confirmed that he will "not be a part of V2 going forward" due to the restructuring, but says the label has not shut down. It will be primarily a catalog label. "I wish the best for everybody that's still left at V2 and Sheridan Square," he says.

Sources familiar with the situation say that the principals, including Redux partners -- Joe Bianco, Anil Narang and Joe Pretlow -- and the Stephens Group, which bought into the company last July during a financial restructuring, are expected to invest more funds to finance further catalog acquisitions.

In fact, the original game plan when Redux was formed in 2003 was to avoid the frontline business and do a catalog roll-up. Since then, Sheridan Square, the name under which the company operates, has spent an estimated $43 million acquiring indie labels V2 North America, Compendia and Artemis; distributor Musicrama; and certain catalog assets of Tone-Cool Records, Triloka, Ropeadope Records and Vanguard Classical.

In addition to the catalog, the company is looking for ways to grow business digitally. Part of that is said to be in talks that could include a merger or investment with a company that is pursuing a similar strategy in the video business.

Article: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003532370

 

[WhiteRose]

*** White Stripes, Tool, Police Top Bonnaroo Lineup ***

I hope that some of you will be able to attend the show.? Also, it looks as though a new album might be on the horizon.? ?

Cheers,
W.R.


White Stripes, Tool, Police Top Bonnaroo Lineup
Franz Ferdinand, Wilco, Flaming Lips, Lily Allen also confirmed for June festival.
By James Montgomery

Sure, you may have read all about the lineup for the 2007 Bonnaroo festival on various music blogs early Tuesday (February 13), but as it turns out, most of that "information" ? and by "most," we mean roughly 30 percent ? was incorrect (we're as shocked as you are).

So here, for your viewing pleasure, is the official, 100 percent confirmed 'Roo lineup: The Police, Tool and the White Stripes top an initial list of more than 70 artists scheduled to appear at Bonnaroo '07, to be held June 14-17 in Manchester, Tennessee. Others on that list include Wilco, Franz Ferdinand, the Decemberists, Regina Spektor, the Flaming Lips, the Hold Steady, Damien Rice and Lily Allen. The final lineup will include more than 100 bands performing on 13 stages.

Of course, there are also plenty of bands on the bill that will appease the more, uh, fervent (read: hippie-fied) Bonnaroo loyalists, including Widespread Panic, Bob Weir & Ratdog, Galactic and Ween.

But much like last year's edition ? which featured certifiably un-jammy acts such as Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie and Beck (see "Radiohead Marathon, Beck Puppet Show, Partial Phish Jam Mix It Up At Bonnaroo") ? the initial lineup for this year's Bonnaroo is already raising some eyebrows among longtime festival-goers, who see it as another move toward the mainstream.

"How did the Police earn a spot on the 'What Stage'?" one fan wrote on the festival's MySpace page. "It's an honor to play on the 'What Stage.' They haven't done sh-- for 20 years."

"I hope that is wrong," another wrote of the lineup. "So freakin' bad."

Feel the enthusiasm! If you're not totally turned off by the festival's initial lineup, then perhaps you'd be interested to know that tickets for the fest go on sale February 23 at noon through Bonnaroo.com.

Link to article: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1552361/20070213/police.jhtml?rsspartner=rssyahoo

 

*** White Stripes Sign New Warner Bros. Deal ***

Maira Oliveira - All Headline News Reporter
Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - The White Stripes are back in the studio and gearing up for the release of their new album. After recently signing a record deal with Warner Bros., the band are ready to launch new music in the States.

In January, a fall out with North American label V2, which released the rock band's albums in the U.S., forced Jack and Meg to find a new record label.

The new music deal has the band under contract to release one album.

A release date for the album, which is the follow up to 2005's "Get Behind Me Satan," has yet to be determined.

Link to article:? http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006448411

[GeraldFord]

I liked Get Behind Me Saten a lot. Don't see why people rag on it.

[newgnr]

I liked Get Behind Me Saten a lot. Don't see why people rag on it.

ya me too. best album behind elephant...de stijl is good too.

[WhiteRose]

ICKY THUMP! NEW ALBUM TITLE REVEALED
 
"An article in Mojo Magazine indicates that Jack and Meg's 6th studio album will be called "Icky Thump". Here is an excerpt from the magazine:

"The album will be called Icky Thump, a title drawn from a Lancastrian colloquialism beloved of White's Mancunian wife Karen Elson ("I changed it to "Icky" because that's how it sounds when I say it, and I love the weird imagery it suggests," he explains). White describes the album as "really heavy. There's a couple of one-take numbers in there, people who love our first album will dig those songs. But there's also some of the most complicated stuff we've ever done. Of course, complicated for the White Stripes means three instruments playing at once."

Link: http://whitestripes.net/

[WhiteRose]

White Stripes Album Details

Story by: Kenny Herzog

Jack and Meg have emerged with their sixth album, their first for Warner Bros. (which has also taken on the band?s Third Man imprint) and, most importantly, their first with bagpipes. Those are a couple of the surprises on the ultimately straightforward Icky Thump, which will see daylight in June. CMJ was treated to a special advance listen of the 13-track record, which was recorded in a super-long (at least for the Stripes) three-week session in a super-modern studio (for the first time) and clocks in at a super-sized (relatively speaking) 48 minutes.

As long as the Stripes continue their minimalist-duo tradition, their formula for lo-fi blues-punk won't so much continually expand as it will vary ever-so slightly and then snap back to basics. Less ornate and spacious (i.e., no piano whatsoever) than Get Behind Me Satan, Icky (the title's a bastardization of an English term that connotes excitement) isn't exactly De Stijl either. Although the second track, "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You?re Told)," is a ferocious melodic rocker not dissimilar from another song with parantheticals, "You?re Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl)." Elsewhere, things jump around from the wild solos of the title track and "Little Cream Soda" (which is more or less no-bullshit garage-metal) to the strange, mariachi-esque madness of "Conquest." (Remember in Election, when that crazy nature call would play when Reese Witherspoon got that wild look in her eye? Think that, but with guitars and horns.) And naturally, as the album draws to its close, we get the more traditional acoustic blues of "Effect And Cause," which sounds like the grandchild of the Stones' "Dead Flowers" (with G 'N R's "Used To Love Her" perhaps being the latter's initial offspring) and "Catch Hell Blues," which lives up to its name by smashing slide-guitar up against a vigorous punk rock chord progression. In between, they even get a little Waterboys on us with the Gaelic jaunt of "Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn."

Icky is another step in a semi-lateral direction for a band that commendably sticks to its humble guns, despite the obvious juxtaposition of being privy to bigger budgets and getting further removed from the true garaginess of their roots. It's very possible that, despite Jack's incredible talent as a musician and songwriter, the Stripes' routine could wear thin if they don't eventually give in to something drastically outside of their comfortable red-and-black box. But for now, there's just enough thump and careful creative leaps in these tunes to keep their Detroit motor runnin'.

Tracklist For Icky Thump:
01. Icky Thump
02. You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)
03. 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues
04. Conquest
05. Bone Broke
06. Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn
07. St. Andrew (This Battle Is In The Air)
08. Little Cream Soda
09. Rag And Bone
10. I'm Slowly Turning Into You
11. A Martyr For My Love For You
12. Catch Hell Blues
13. Effect And Cause

www.whitestripes.com

Link to article: http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=33547292

[Juanjay]

I was turned off of Jack by his ego.... knocking SRV as a guitar player is just stupid, one of the only blues players that had the tech ability of the souless shredders... but he is a great song writer... and I said great... their last album sounds like a mix of LZ III and Beggars Banquet... yeah its a rip off but they do it well... and for that they should be commended... but I still despise Jack White and his pretension...

[WhiteRose]

I was turned off of Jack by his ego.... knocking SRV as a guitar player is just stupid, one of the only blues players that had the tech ability of the souless shredders... but he is a great song writer... and I said great... their last album sounds like a mix of LZ III and Beggars Banquet... yeah its a rip off but they do it well... and for that they should be commended... but I still despise Jack White and his pretension...

For the most part, Jack tends to be a very private, humble and modest man. Granted, he has a wonderfully strong stage presence about him, but I've never heard anyone complain about him having an ego problem.

Also, it's difficult for me to imagine him saying anything negative about SRV. I'm curious as to where you came across such information.

Cheers,
W.R.

[2NaFish]

if he did say something about srv my opinion of him would drop by quite a bit.

[Juanjay]

I was turned off of Jack by his ego.... knocking SRV as a guitar player is just stupid, one of the only blues players that had the tech ability of the souless shredders... but he is a great song writer... and I said great... their last album sounds like a mix of LZ III and Beggars Banquet... yeah its a rip off but they do it well... and for that they should be commended... but I still despise Jack White and his pretension...

For the most part, Jack tends to be a very private, humble and modest man. Granted, he has a wonderfully strong stage presence about him, but I've never heard anyone complain about him having an ego problem.

Also, it's difficult for me to imagine him saying anything negative about SRV. I'm curious as to where you came across such information.

Cheers,
W.R.

It was in a Guitar World I read a while back.

[WhiteRose]

It was in a Guitar World I read a while back.

Well, if that's the case, I would say that Jack is certainly entitled to his own opinions, but again, it's not like him to go around saying anything negative.

Is there a chance that you could be confusing him with the comments of someone else?

Actually, I'm not even sure what we're talking about here.?

So, what did he (supposedly) say that makes you feel as though he was knocking SRV??

[2NaFish]

i did a search for it and found a few other references to jack slighting stevie, but no quote.

[stinson4ever]

article in rolling stone says album out in june and the raconteurs second album is half done. Jack plans to tour with both bands in '07

[vietnow138]

I was turned off of Jack by his ego.... knocking SRV as a guitar player is just stupid, one of the only blues players that had the tech ability of the souless shredders... but he is a great song writer... and I said great... their last album sounds like a mix of LZ III and Beggars Banquet... yeah its a rip off but they do it well... and for that they should be commended... but I still despise Jack White and his pretension...

For the most part, Jack tends to be a very private, humble and modest man. Granted, he has a wonderfully strong stage presence about him, but I've never heard anyone complain about him having an ego problem.

Also, it's difficult for me to imagine him saying anything negative about SRV. I'm curious as to where you came across such information.

Cheers,
W.R.

It was in a Guitar World I read a while back.

Yeah it was in the Feb 2006 issue of Guitar World, he and Jimmy Page were interviewed together. Jack basically just said that he prefers the music of old delta blues players like Son House, Charley Patton, Howlin' Wolf, and Robert Johnson for inspiration and guidance to guys like Stevie Ray Vaughan.

[Axlfreek]

I think we needs more people like Jack White in the music industry. He sticks to his roots music and puts a spin on it to make it his own. Very talented in my opinion and a great stage presence.