Podunkian Music Club

The White Stripes- Seven Nation Army

They’re one of the hot bands of the day and they apparently love touring Canada.

And when we say tour Canada, we mean tour Canada! The Globe and Mail is reporting that the White Stripes are about to launch what is perhaps the most interesting tour of the Great White North that has ever been planned by a major recording act. From the Globe come details of the coast to coast to coast itinerary.

White Stripes' Canadian tour to include Iqaluit
GUY DIXON
From Friday's Globe and Mail
April 27, 2007 at 4:40 AM EDT

Toronto — Indie blues-rockers the White Stripes have got a hankering for Canada. The group, originally from Detroit, will be performing in all 10 provinces, as well as Nunavut, the Yukon and Northwest Territories this summer. Starting in Burnaby, B.C., on June 24, the band will hit Yellowknife, Iqaluit and Thunder Bay, among its many Canadian stops, before finishing in St. John's on July 16.

It's an unusual itinerary for such a major act. But as guitarist Jack White said on the band's website, "Having never done a full tour of Canada, [we] thought it was high time to go whole hog. We want to take this tour to the far reaches of the Canadian landscape. From the ocean to the permafrost."

The group will be celebrating its 10th anniversary with its July 10 gig in Glace Bay, N.S.

So in honour of the groups affection for life above the 49th (and the 60th too) we feature the White Stripes as our Music Club selection of the week.

The Detroit based band which brings to life the musical creations of leader Jack White has broken a bit of a rut of the music industry the last few years. Featuring a vital and energetic sound, the Stripes provide hard driving and fresh rock and roll. It’s quite different from the run of the mill classic and alternative rock that we had become used to, a sign that the rock universe has not been conquered by Hip Hop, Rap and all other contenders.

Born out of the garage rock genre of the late nineties, the duo first appeared in 1997 and quickly became one the hot new acts to watch. A rather complicated relationship between Jack and Meg gained quite a bit of mileage for the group, originally thought to be brother and sister, the story later changed to the two being ex-wife and ex-husband. An interpersonal relationship that makes for the duo to be the most angst ridden group since Fleetwood Mac’s public romances and splits became common knowledge and ruled the gossip sheets.

Regardless of the internal chemistry of the two, the duo has flourished for five recordings now, part of a strange but still developing story in rock.

And now they take their show on the road and caribou trails of Canada starting in June. A hot band heading for a cool country, both figuratively and climatically.

To warm up the crowds in the colder climates, our selection tonight Seven Nation Army should get you tapping your toes and working the air guitar as hard as you can.

Artist- The White Stripes
Recording-Elephant