This isn’t too surprising, but it is a disappointment for those of us hoping to watch Steve “Lips” Kudlow crash the Oscars red carpet. Anvil! The Story of Anvil and It Might Get Loud, Jack White, the Edge, and Jimmy Page’s jam session-turned-film, have both been left off the Oscar short list for Best Documentary, /Film reports.

Even though director Davis Guggenheim won an Academy Award for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and It Might Get Loud will likely be joining the canon of great music documentaries, it never really screamed “Oscar” to me. I did honestly think Anvil had a shot for a nomination at least, but, as /Film’s Peter Sciretta notes, “the Academy obviously doesn’t like Rock music.”

When Jack White produced and performed on Loretta Lynn’s brilliant Van Lear Rose album, he not only proved that his skills as an exuberant frontman could be just as affecting from outside the spotlight, but he also showed the world that a 70-something-year-old country music legend could still rock out as hard as the Guitar Center generation. Well, a lot has happened since then (White’s started two more bands, a record label, a studio, etc.) and now Jack’s found another living legend to work with.

Jack White is no fan of digital music distribution, digital recording, or non-vinyl releases in general, but that won’t stop him from exploiting a few digital options on the side. The Dead Weather released an iTunes exclusive EP today with live videos and audio from their surprise set at the Third Man Records and Novelties pop-up shop this past summer in Los Angeles

Here’s the official Live From Third Man West tracklist, via their official site:

1. “Forever My Queen” (Pentagram Cover) - audio only
2. “Hang You From The Heavens” - audio/video
3. “I Cut Like A Buffalo” - audio/video
4. “So Far From Your Weapon” - audio/video
5. “Treat Me Like Your Mother” - audio/video

Jack White’s “Third Man Records and Novelties” pop-up stores have made stops in New York City and Los Angeles so far, but the Jack White circus had yet to venture across the Atlantic… until now.

On Oct. 30 and 31, the Shoreditch Church in East London will be converted into one of White’s trademark yellow, white, and black-themed stores, selling “all Third Man releases and miscellany from The Dead Weather, The White Stripes, and The Raconteurs to all Third Man 45s, T-shirts and loads of rare and collectible items,” an announcement reads (via their email list). “We’ll also have a limited run of exclusive merchandise made specifically for this London location, so make sure you come down early!”

Surely you know of guitarist, drummer, singer Jack White and perhaps you’ve heard of actor, upholsterer, philanthropist, or Luddite Jack White, but we’ve got a new one for you today: lecturer Jack White.

“I don’t know if Bob Dylan or Tom Waits are as authentic as I think they are. Perhaps they’re not,” White told Dublin’s Trinity College last night, according to NME, where he spoke and received an honory patron medal from the University Philosophical Society. “Sometimes you start thinking that maybe Britney Spears or someone like that who’s doing exactly what they want to do in the way that they best know how, is more authentic than any of those people you could mention.”

Whenever I start to grow tired of Jack White’s attitude about the state of rock music, he pulls me back in drops a few new quotes and I’m back on Team Jack. In an excerpt in the LA Times from rock critic Robert Hilburn’s upcoming book Corn Flakes With John Lennon (and Other Tales From a Rock ‘n’ Roll Life), the author talks to Bono and Jack White about rock stardom in the post-Lennon music world.

“I think one thing is they are suspicious of fame because fame is now associated with ‘celebrity,’” Bono says, of bands that fear the backlash of huge success, “and that has become oppressive in our society.”

Jack White knows a thing or two about a hometown backlash, as he claims that the Detroit scene essentially accused him of being a sell-out when the White Stripes blew up. Interestingly, he admits that his reaction was, “you go to your room and you shut it all out,” which could explain why his former engineer Jim Diamond believes that “he alienated a lot of people.” Either way, here’s the Jack quote that jumped out at me:

The artists of the past all had their rebellion. Elvis was rebelling against sexual repression, and Dylan was rebelling against immorality, and I feel like I’m rebelling against technology and the death of romance.

The LA Times article has tons of great bits from Jack and Bono, so be sure to go thataway before it gets devoured by the news beast.

“I Cut Like a Buffalo” is the third single off the Dead Weather’s debut album, Horehound, and the A-side to Jack White’s new band’s cover of The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band’s “A Child of a Few Hours is Burning to Death.” Jack has always been obsessed with old films and he’s certainly not afraid to give his acting chops a try, so I’ve been curious about what he could do as a director. At the Toronto International Film Festival, however, he ruled out any upcoming film projects, except for a Dead Weather video that he directed. And here it is…

This White-directed music video was apparently shot at his Nashville Third Man Records headquarters (hence the same blue background from all the label’s promo pics). Watch it here or embedded below (via Prefix):