The White Stripes

......Music with a sense of......awareness of it's own history.      Give The White Stripes Another Listen.  Jack White has consistantly exhibited an uncanny ability to plumb the depths of rock's roots in an amazing array of styles.  The "band's" progression and development has been impressive as they find pathways to Rock, Pop, Blues, roots within their signiture sound.

Worried that the city of Detroit hates him, Jack White wrote a little poem about Motor City. The prose, titled "Courageous Dream's Concern," is in response to some misinterpreted statements White made about D-town since his departure for Nashville two years ago.

In 2006 he told the Associated Press that he had to leave Detroit because he "couldn't take the negativity anymore." Earlier this year he further charged in a told Rolling Stone Raconteurs feature that "I couldn't... MORE

Europeans adopt the White Stripe’s "Seven Nation Army" as the unofficial anthem of the 2008 Euro Cup games. It all started with drunken Italians changing the lyrics to "Campioni del mondo" -- champions of the world... I have to say the new electro remix is pretty good. (the official Euro Cup song is Enrique Iglesias- "Can You Hear Me?" (like wtf))

But for right now I wanna have a little fun   So I bought the new racounters album and love it which caused a back lash in listening to Jack White related content with that I stumbled across this awesome cover they did of St. James Infirmray Blues This brought me back to my History of Animation class which had us study the Fleischer cartoon "Snow White" which is an amazing experimental peice where animators where really testing out the art form, and it has a version... MORE

Its almost been a year since I left MOG, found myself a working mans job and felt I had to focus all my attention to the students in my room. I left MOG unemployed, and am coming back a fourth grade teacher. As the end of the school year is approaching I know I am going to have to have something to fill my time. While I was teaching I spent the majority of my nights journaling, something I had not done in quite sometime. Now with the end of school just two days away, I am ... MORE

Last summer, 24th of July 2007. I had the chance to attend a White Stripes concert at the Madison Square Garden in NYC, and I have to tell I was amazed. Even if I knew the quality of musicians they are, I never expected to see a show like that, the scenario, the lights, the people, the music, everything about that show was unbelievable. I couldn't sing along all the songs from the new album, because I bought it just three days before the concert, but I had the hell of a ti... MORE

As I have previously said, I was rather late to appreciate the White Stripes .I was put off by all the silly hype and the fact that at one time everyone wasso taken by them....But I have become a great fan now. Jack White is clearly steeped in the history, the roots & off-shoots of rocknpop music and revels in exploring and experimenting with them. Dylan's world weary rumination on the artist's place in the marketplace becomes a seething scorching indictment in the han... MORE

Every since Alicia Keys hit the stage with country music star Keith Urban at last year's Live Earth concert, she's been itching for more unconventional pairings. During a chat with Rolling Stone, she expressed interest in collabing with Queens of the Stone Age, Linkin Park and Coldplay. However, The White Stripes topped her dream team list, and she's already been in contact with them to see if it could happen. “I think that combining that style with mine, which already h... MORE

My Mog-friend Meghan and I made a little drive to the big city, Nashville, yesterday to run a few errands, do some "Goodwill hunting", and pig out at Noshville downtown. I like to be the ipod-DJ if I am riding bitch (quite the lucrative position) and thought that our arrival required a White Stripes soundtrack. I had no idea that Jack White and his wife lived in middle Tennessee. "Why would someone DO that?" was my first thought. Then I remembered that he also kicked of th... MORE

All I can say right now is, if you don't dig this, your soul is probably horribly broken...

Good Monday morning fellow Moggers! I will make this short and sweet! Here I was signing in and saw I hit my year anniversary. So this being said, you guys rock and thanks for broadening my horizons in the world of music! Cheers my friends!

Henry and Liv (my kids) and I were rocking out tonight while Mom got some work done. Livvy shook her butt, and offered these deadpan reviews of some of the songs: Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground by the White Stripes -- "Sounds like a remote control plane by itself." Idioteque by Radiohead-- "Sounds like aliens." Blue Orchid bu the White Stripes -- "Sounds like a race car." She's a pretty spot on critic, huh?