I was already a fan of The White Stripes, but I have just finished watching "Under Great White Northern Lights" and am now completely over the edge. If you have an hour and thirty five minutes to take in this great rockumentary, I highly recommend it. If you are Canadian and love music, it is an absolute must.
For those who have not yet been indoctrinated into the musical world of Jack and Meg White, YouTube "Hotel Yorba" or "Seven Nation Army" immediately. Jack White is quite possibly one of the most creative, original, musicians of our time. Meg and Jack manage to fill any space with a sound that should come from a full band of five or six, yet there really are only two of them on the stage. The raw, unfiltered emotion explodes in the form of bass beats and treble riffs that engulf you and wont let you go. Yeah, I'm a fan.
Jack and Meg broke up the band earlier this year much to the disappointment of their fans, but fourteen years is a long time to maintain that pace and it was time for something new. Their cutting edge music lives on in the fans that just wont let it go and new projects have them busy in new directions.
I think what I like most is their ability to break out of the constraints of the corporate music world, and the general constraints of society as we know it. They play what they feel, not what will sell and in the end, their honesty to themselves made them one of the best loved alternate music bands of the last decade.
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