the white stripes

Meg White and Jack White at the 2007 Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain Background information Origin Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Genre(s) Garage rock, punk blues, blues-rock, alternative rock Years active 1997–present Label(s) Warner Bros., V2, Third Man, Sub-Pop, Sympathy for the Record Industry. XL, Italy Associated acts The Raconteurs, The Upholsterers, The Go, Goober & the Peas, Beck, Holly Golightly, The Dirtbombs, Soledad Brothers Website www.whitestripes.com Members Jack White

Meg White

The White Stripes is an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consists of songwriter Jack White (vocals, guitar, and other assorted instruments) and Meg White (drums, percussion and occasional vocals).

After releasing several singles and three albums within the Detroit independent music underground, The White Stripes rose to prominence in 2002, as part of the garage rock revival scene. Their successful albums White Blood Cells and Elephant drew them attention from a large variety of media outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The White Stripes use a low-fidelity, do-it-yourself approach to writing and recording, and utilize a simplified color scheme of red, white, and black for their imagery, instruments and clothing. Playing in the punk blues style, their music stresses a raw, minimalistic simplicity of composition and arrangement predominantly inspired by blues, early punk rock, and garage rock.

The White Stripes' discography consists of six studio albums, one extended play (EP), one video album, 26 singles and fourteen music videos. The band has sold approximately 12 million albums worldwide,[1][2] 2 million in the US alone,[3] and their latest three albums have each won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.[4] Contents [hide] 1 Career 1.1 Early history 1.2 The White Stripes (1999) 1.3 De Stijl (2000) 1.4 White Blood Cells (2001) 1.5 Elephant (2003) 1.6 Get Behind Me Satan (2005) 1.7 Icky Thump (2007) 1.8 Seventh studio album and recent activity 2 Music 2.1 Style 2.2 Instruments and equipment 2.2.1 Jack White 2.2.2 Meg White 2.3 Recording sessions and live performances 3 Appearances in film 4 Other projects 5 Discography 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External links //

Career

Early history

Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis) first played as a professional musician in the early 1990s, as a drummer for the Detroit cowpunk band Goober & The Peas.[5] This led to work with various other bands, such as the garage punk band The Go (on their 1999 album Whatcha Doin'), for whom White played lead guitar, and Two-Star Tabernacle.[6] Also, neighbor Brian Muldoon (later of The Muldoons) played drums with Jack White – still known then as Jack Gillis – and the duo informally called themselves Two Part Resin.[7] Their post-breakup 7-inch single Makers of High Grade Suites, released in 2000 on Sympathy for the Record