The White Stripes September 4, 2007

The White Stripes are the Detroit duo of Jack and Meg White. Their music is grounded in punk and blues, but the undercurrent to all of their work has been a sense of simplicity, a love of American folk music, and a careful approach to intriguing, emotional, and evocative lyrics not found anywhere else in the punk, blues or garage rock landscape. Their new album is 'Icky Thump.' Cold War Kids make songs about human experience in orchards and hotel rooms, laundromats and churches, sea ports and school halls. Using songs of Dylan, Billie Holiday and the Velvet Underground as a road map, they strive to manipulate, structure and style their music with honesty.