The White Stripes announce new single, video and Conan appearance

NEW YORK (By Miguel Banuelos/ V2 Music) - The White Stripes – currently dazzling fans on tour across Europe – have announced details of their new single and video. The third song from their critically acclaimed album, Get Behind Me Satan, to be turned into a video is 'The Denial Twist'. This is the first video from the new album to reunite them with artistic compadre and long-time collaborator Michel Gondry.

The video for 'The Denial Twist' was shot in New York City in October and is Gondry's creative re-telling of the week in 2003 when The White Stripes took over the music performance slot each night on NBC's Late Night With Conan O'Brien. Gondry's interpretation of that week unfolds in the new video with typically off-kilter inventiveness and style. Jack and Meg play their 2003 selves and were delighted to be joined in this reenactment by Conan O'Brien in his first music video role.
'I don't know whether to thank Jack, Meg and Michel for an amazing experience or sue them for copyright infringement,' said O'Brien

Michel Gondry and The White Stripes have enjoyed something of a special kinship since the band's third album, White Blood Cells, found its way into Gondry's artful hands and the resulting video – for hit single 'Fell In Love With A Girl'– catapulted both band and director into the TV limelight, winning them several MTV Music Video Awards in 2002. Gondry then went on to direct equally impressive videos for that album's next single, 'Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground,' and for 'The Hardest Button To Button' from the Stripes' fourth - and Grammy award winning - album Elephant.

In another twist to the White Stripes/Conan tale, the band will perform the song from the video on the show on Friday December 2nd. Late Night With Conan O'Brien airs on NBC at 12.35/11.35pm.