Biography

Detroit minimalist rock duo the White Stripes -- Jack White, guitar and vocals; Meg White, drums -- formed in 1997 with the idea of making simple rock & roll music. From the red-and-white peppermint candy motif of their debut singles, self-titled album, and stage show to their on-the-surface rudimentary style, they succeeded wildly and immediately with that mission. The White Stripes are grounded in punk and blues, but the undercurrent to all of their work has been the aforementioned striving for simplicity, a love of American folk music, and a careful approach to intriguing, emotional, and evocative lyrics not found anywhere else in modern punk or garage rock. ~ Chris Handyside

Top Tracks

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• 300 M.p.h. Torrential Outpour Blues

• Apple Blossom

• Ball And Biscuit

• Black Jack Davey

• Black Math

• Blue Orchid

• Conquest

• Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground

• Do

• Fell In Love With A Girl

• Forever For Her (is Over For Me)

• Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine

• Good To Me

• Hello Operator

• Hotel Yorba

• Icky Thump

• I'm Lonely (but I Ain't That Lonely Yet)

• In The Cold, Cold Night

• Jimmy The Exploder

• Jolene

• Lafayette Blues

• Let's Build A Home

• Little Cream Soda

• Lord Send Me An Angel

• My Doorbell

• Party Of Special Things To Do

• Seven Nation Army

• Sister, Do You Know My Name?

• Sugar Never Tasted So Good

• Take, Take, Take

• The Big Three Killed My Baby

• The Hardest Button To Button

• The Union Forever

• Walking With A Ghost

• We're Going To Be Friends

• You Don't Know What Love Is (you Just Do As You're Told)

• You're Pretty Good Looking (for A Girl)

Discography

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• Under Great White Northern Lights

  Third Man Records / Warner Bros.

  2010

• Icky Thump

  Warner Bros.

  2007

• Get Behind Me Satan

  V2 Records

  2005

• White Blood Cells

  Sympathy For The Record Industry

  2001

• De Stijl

  Sympathy For The Record Industry

  2000

• The White Stripes

  V2 Records / Third Man/V2

  1999