We're a pretty good listen (for a podcast), so build a home around our all-new album analysis and review of the White Stripes sophomore LP release: De Stijl! In the spring of 2000 Jack and Meg White had a handful of singles, a debut LP, some local rock and roll stardom and a couple of day jobs under their belts on the chilly streets of Detroit - but all of that was about to change. The married duo that had baffled so many with their color schemes and brother/sister mythology found their real-life relationship at an end, and their musical path at a crossroads. This is the environment that would bring out one of the most colorful, hard-edged blues/pop records to grace the new millennium, and the last big step in the direction of the kind of fame there would be no turning back from for the White Stripes. This episode we begin our discussion with a background of the album, it's title and cover, and insight into the opening salvo of blistering tracks that turned the rock world to black, white and red. Plus, as this is the first episode of the new year, we ring in 2018 with Third Woman Kali Durga who returns to fill us in on all the Third Man events she attended in 2017! So let us be your canaries, your birds to bring the message of De Stijl home!