The White Stripes

Surge Tracks

• Icky Thump
• Blue Orchid
• Jolene
• There's No Home For You Here
• I Just Don't Know What To Do
• Black Math
• Seven Nation Army
• Dead Leaves on the Dirty ground
• Fell In Love With A Girl

Artist Biography

The White Stripes, a two-piece blues-rock outfit, were formed in Detroit on July 14, 1997 by Jack White (given name John Anthony Gillis) on lead vocals, guitar, piano, and songwriting, and Meg White (full name Megan Martha White) on drums, percussion and vocals. For several years they were a struggling local band, despite touring with Pavement and Sleater-Kinney. During this time they released singles on various independent record labels, including Sympathy For The Record Industry, the label for their first three albums.

Jack has described their eponymous debut album (released in 1999), as "...really angry...the most raw, the most powerful, and the most Detroit-sounding record we've made."Their second release, De Stijl (2000), was named after the minimalist Dutch art movement which they cited as a source for the approach to their music and to their image. For a brief period before De Stijl was released, Jack studied fine arts at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, although he never graduated.

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Artist Discography

Albums

De Stijl (2001-10-12)
Elephant (2003-03-31)
Get Behind Me Satan (2005-06-06)
Icky Thump (2007-06-18)
The White Stripes (2001-11-26)
White Blood Cells (2001-09-24)

EPs

Walking With a Ghost (2005-12-06)
White Blood Cells

Singles

Blue Orchid (2005-05-30)
Candycane Children
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (2002-09-02)
Fell in Love With a Girl (2002-02-25)
Hand Springs (1999)
Hello Operator (2000-05)
Hotel Yorba (2001-11-12)
Icky Thump (2007-06-11)
I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Jolene (2004-11-15)
Lafayette Blues (1998-11)
Let's Shake Hands (1998-02)
Lord, Send Me an Angel
Merry Christmas from The White Stripes
My Doorbell (2005-08-22)
Party of Special Things to Do / China Pig / Ashtray Heart (2000-12-05)
Seven Nation Army (2003-04-21)
The Big Three Killed My Baby (1999-03)
The Denial Twist (2005-11-07)
The Hardest Button to Button (2003-11-17)
You Don't Know What Love Is (2007-09-10)

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