TAG: The White Stripes

Feb07

Jack White & Danger Mouse :: “Two Against One” (MP3)

You knew Jack White wasn’t going to stay quiet following the news of The White Stripes splitting up last week. Hell, the fallow years leading up the duo’s split were some of White’s most prolific, with The Raconteuers and The Dead Weather releasing no less than three albums since the Stripes unintended swan song, 2007’s Icky Thump. So it’s little surprise to hear White pop up on this new project by cross-genre producer Danger Mouse, whose studio pairing have ranged from hit making with Damon Albarn (as Gorillaz) and Cee-Lo (as Gnarls Barkley) to more oblique work with David Lynch and Sparklehorse.

“Two Against One” finds White contributing vocals to Danger Mouse’s latest collaboration with Italian composer Daniele Luppi under the name Rome. It’s quiet yet foreboding acoustic melodramatic sound is exactly the sort of song we like to hear White over when the guitars aren’t wailing.

You can hear it over at Antiquiet. …MORE

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Feb02

White Stripes Disband

Meg White FInally Has Some Peace 

The White Stripes announced today that they have broken up as a recording and performing duo. In a rather esoteric announcment on the band’s website, the explains the cause of the split, “It is for a myriad of reasons but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way.”

Which is nice and polite, if vague. But thinking back to the closing of 2009 tour documentary, Under Great White Northern Lights, there’s an incredibly moving scene where Jack performs a solo version of “White Moon” while Meg gently weeps by his side. The song is about relationships past, and given the pair’s own pre-White Stripes relationship, it’s hard not to assume that Meg never quite got over old Jacky, which made for a very interesting decade-plus of music, but she probably just had …

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Mar10

The White Stripes, “Under The Great White Northern Lights” (Review)

The White Stripes

Under The Great White Northern Lights



If you “love” The White Stripes then you should see Emmett Malloy’s new documentary, which covers their 2007 Canadian tour that took the band through every providence in the Northern Territories.  If you just happen to simply just “like” The White Stripes, then you should definitely take two hours to educate yourself with a viewing of Under Great White Northern Lights.

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Jan12

URB Best of the Decade Winners

We asked and you answered—what were the greatest artist, albums and more from the first decade of the 21st century. And while the winners weren’t shocking, this survey still reminds us of the amazing musical decade that just passed. Each winner here represents not just great artistic success, but immense influence on the decades music at large.

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