White Stripes March On

The White Stripes will release their fourth album, Elephant, on April 15th. The duo, Jack and Meg White, recorded the album at Toe Rag Studios in East London, using no equipment that dated past 1963.

Jack White will appear in the upcoming movie Cold Mountain, starring Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Renee Zellweger. White is also contributing songs to the soundtrack of the film, which is based on Charles Frazier's book of the same name. The story follows a wounded Confederate soldier's odyssey from a hospital to his North Carolina home and the woman he left behind.

Elephant track listing:

Seven Nation Army
Black Math
There's No Home for You Here
I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
In the Cold, Cold Night
I Want to Be the Boy . . .
You've Got Her in Your Pocket
Ball and Biscuit
The Hardest Button to Button
Little Acorns
Hypnotise
The Air Near My Fingers
Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine
It's True That We Love One Another

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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