The White Stripes
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The White Stripes: Astoria Theatre, London, 21st November
Live Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 24 November 2001
THE MOTOR CITY IS BURNING – on London's Charing Cross Road. An hilariously heraldic "City Of Detroit" flag – with a Latin inscription translating as ...
Comment by Stephen Dalton, The Times, August 2003
NEXT WEEK the White Stripes release their latest single, a highly distinctive reading of the Burt Bacharach standard 'I Just Don't Know What To Do ...
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Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages, 1 June 2001
Backstage at the Bowery Ballroom, the Stripes talk about their stage show: what they play; what can go wrong; having Ray Davies in the audience; great shows, and disasters; hating corporate sponsorship; being in the sights of major labels; their support acts; Jack's complicated relationship with the blues; his dislike of the rock press; dealing with hecklers; rock in Detroit, and Meg's drum kit!
File format: mp3; file size: 29.7mb, interview length: 30' 57" sound quality: ** (background noise)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 18 August 2009
Jack White goes way back to his Detroit childhood, the evolution of the White Stripes, and through to his current workaholic agenda as the Dead Weather's drummer.
File format: mp3; file size: 53.6mb, interview length: 55' 49" sound quality: ***
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The White Stripes: SXSW, Austin Fat Tuesday's, Austin, Texas
Live Review by Stevie Chick, New Musical Express, 31 March 2001
THE WHITE STRIPES are quite a sight. ...
The White Stripes: De Stijl (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
Review by Stevie Chick, New Musical Express, 21 April 2001
Two-piece brother and sister band kick up fine rock'n'roll ruckus ...
The White Stripes: De Stijl (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, June 2001
JACK AND MEG White are the future of the very industry for which their label espouses such compassion. These Detroit-based guitar/drum siblings strip Jon Spencer-style ...
The White Stripes: White Blood Cells
Review by Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2001
THE WHITE STRIPES play gothic garage punk strictly by all the best and baddest rules. Detroit's Jack and Meg White, allegedly brother and sister, look ...
Big riffs from across the pond
Profile by Max Bell, Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 5 July 2001
US garage rock is back, and Detroit and New York are where it's at. Stevie Chick and Max Bell look at the new breed chasing ...
White Noise, White Heat: The White Stripes: 100 Club, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, New Musical Express, 4 August 2001
HE'S THE don of Detroit, the god of garage, the man reclaiming rock'n'roll from false-hearted cheats and whining, hollow charlatans. ...
London Loves Us: The White Stripes
Report and Interview by Robin Bresnark, Detroit Metro Times, 8 August 2001
DETROIT, YOU HAVE a secret admirer. Admittedly, we're not terribly local, not all of us are single, and you certainly wouldn't want to come round ...
The White Stripes: L2, Liverpool
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 15 November 2001
THE CURIOUS success of the White Stripes is proof that rock'n'roll fairy tales can still happen. ...
Revenge Of The Underground: The Strokes and the White Stripes
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 8 December 2001
Is a new day at hand for 'alternative' rockers? ...
Of Strokes and Stripes: An American Invasion
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, July 2002
LAST SUMMER THERE was a sign outside British music’s front door. It read "SITUATION VACANT", and then, in smaller print, "Wanted: the Next Big Thing". ...
Chemistry Set: The White Stripes: Metro, Chicago
Live Review by Keith Cameron, Q, September 2002
Sparks fly as the blues-crazed siblings/spouses/whatever take the stage. ...
Jeff Beck and guests: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by John L. Walters, The Guardian, 17 September 2002
WHATEVER YOUR take on rock guitar heroics, Jeff Beck's three-night South Bank residency was certainly the most miscellaneous gig of the year, and a logistical ...
Jeff Beck, The White Stripes and friends: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, November 2002
THE SHORT version: Jeff Beck is still the champ. The long version: American humorist Fran Lebowitz once wrote words to the effect that vegetables do ...
The White Stripes: The Sweetheart Deal
Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 29 March 2003
"SPERAMUS MELIORA; resurget cineribus" – the motto of the city of Detroit translates as "We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes". ...
The White Stripes: Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 11 April 2003
THE WHITE STRIPES find out the day before this first show of their tour that Elephant, the startling beast of a record that they made ...
The White Stripes: The Special Relationship
Profile by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 11 April 2003
THE PERFECT BLUEPRINT for a band devised by Jack and Meg White in Detroit obscurity six years ago has put them at rock's pinnacle today. ...
Rock & Roll Animal: The White Stripes: Elephant (XL) *****
Review and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, May 2003
Fourth album proves crowning glory of Detroit duo's meteoric career to date ...
White Stripes: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by John Doran, Bang, June 2003
JACK AND MEG STRIPPED THE BLUES DOWN TO ITS BARE BONES, FLESH-WOUNDING 8,000 SCREAMING FANS OVER TWO NIGHTS AT LONDON'S BRIXTON ACADEMY ...
Honky-Tonk Grande Dame: Loretta Lynn And Jack White On Country’s Favorite Daughter
Report and Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, 25 June 2003
SOME MIGHT SEE it as a generational passing of the torch: an established music icon sharing the stage with a younger rising star, and there’s ...
Interview by Pete Paphides, Observer Music Monthly, October 2003
In his continuing quest to improve the musical tastes of the stars, Record Doctor visits the godfather of British fashion. ...
The Thin Red Line: The White Stripes: Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, April 2004
Rock'n'roll's leading dysfunctional couple play their biggest UK shows yet ...
Jack White and Loretta Lynn: Deconstructing Jack
Comment by Dave Marsh, Harp, July 2004
AT THAT POINT, after one and a half listenings, I concluded that White had heard all the Loretta Lynn records ever made and liked everything ...
Reading Festival: Richmond Avenue, Reading
Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 5 September 2004
And the name of the world's worst band is... ...
The White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights DVD (Third Man/V2)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Steven R Rosen, Harp, March 2005
EXCUSE MY misperception. I’d always considered the White Stripes as a modernist garage-rock band-hip to the melody of catchy songs like 'You’re Pretty Good Looking ...
The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
Review by Stevie Chick, Plan B, June 2005
THERE WAS almost a point, deep into Elephant, where you could sense something slipping away from Jack White. ...
The White Stripes: The New Generation
Comment by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 24 June 2005
JACK WHITE WILL never have the blues badly enough. Though The White Stripes' new album, Get Behind Me Satan, suggests the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson's ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2005
YOU KNOW what they say: You are what you listen to. So what does that say about Jack White? Actually quite a bit: That he's ...
The White Stripes: Heart of Darkness
Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, MOJO, August 2005
Join us for a tale of extraordinary madness as we sail through the Brazilian rainforest deep into the Heart Of Darkness. There we find the ...
The Truth In Red And White: The White Stripes' Romanticised Reality
Comment by Stevie Chick, The Stranger, 4 August 2005
"I SAW THIS documentary about a classical guitarist," Jack White told me recently. "He was playing Bach and Mozart, these really ridiculously complicated pieces, but ...
The White Stripes: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, Daily Telegraph, 13 November 2005
Paul Morley watches The White Stripes at the Hammersmith Apollo and is blown away by their impeccably skewed greatness ...
Jack White's Side Dish: The Raconteurs
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2006
THE BUSMAN'S holiday has a long if mixed history in rock. From makeshift supergroups to one-off time-killers to impromptu jam sessions, sideline moonlightings are part ...
The White Stripes: White Blood Cells (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2007
JACK WHITE was certainly ready and prepared for the media storm that greeted The White Stripes' arrival on the international stage with their third album ...
The White Stripes: Detroit Spinners
Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, 9 June 2007
SON HOUSE WAS one of the greatest of all blues singers. Born on a Mississippi cotton plantation in 1902, he died 86 years later – ...
Review by Andy Gill, Uncut, July 2007
Heavy Riffage! Celtic Folk! Mariachi Blues! Meg And Jack Rock Back With A "Compellingly Weird" One... ...
The White Stripes: 93 Feet East, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, February 2008
JACK WHITE just doesn't know what to do with himself. ...
"There's a Voice in Me Saying Slow Down": Jack White Looks Back
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, November 2009
WE'RE COMING to the end of a punishingly intense set by the Dead Weather, the second side-project band formed by Jack White of the White ...
The Backpages Interview: Jack White
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, November 2009
ON THE 18TH of August 2009, in Salt Lake City, I was privileged enough to sit down with Jack White – variously a White Stripe, ...
The White Stripes: Detroit's Rock Heroes Remembered
Retrospective by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 5 February 2011
THERE WAS AN outpouring of grief this week when the White Stripes announced they were to split. Stevie Chick explains their magic while photographer Ewen ...
see also Dead Weather, The
see also Raconteurs, The
see also Jack White
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