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):

Jack White and the Raconteurs were nominated for a “Musical Event of the Year” Country Music Award recently for their filmed collaboration with Ricky Skaggs and Ashley Monroe at a Nashville recording studio. The reason this somewhat random group of musicians got together has always been a bit of a mystery (everything seems to be with Jack), but in a Q&A with 9513, Monroe has provided a few details about her first encounter with White and his band.

Long before Taylor Swift sold a gazillion records and Kanye West made her blush on MTV, helping her to sell another gazillion records, she was still somewhat under the radar, save for the country radio crowd. Well, she was with Ashley Monroe when they spotted White getting off his airplane and here’s how it went down, according to Monroe:

She says, “Hi I’m Taylor Swift.” Everyone recognizes her everywhere, you know. And he’s like, “Taylor…?” He wasn’t familiar with her. And then, I’m like, [sheepishly whispering] “Hi I’m Ashley Monroe.” He looked up and said, “Ashley Monroe the singer?” I thought he was making fun of my name, because it almost sounds like a stage name. It sounds a little fake. I said, “Yeah, I’m Ashley Monroe the singer.” And he says, “No really, did I hear you on the Opry?” And he named the song I sang. He says, “I was listening to the Opry the other day. Oh my gosh, I’ve just been raving about you.”

Years later, after Monroe had been kicking herself for not setting up a collaboration, Jack emailed her out of the blue to set up their CMA-nominated “event.”

I enjoy this story, but I do regret feeding the celeb news beast a “Jack White disses Taylor Swift?!” headline. Besides, Swift still wants to work with him and Jack definitely knows who she is by now.

Jack White caused quite a stir at the Toronto International Film Festival this past weekend, announcing the White Stripes’ denial from the Guinness Book of World Records, an upcoming album he recorded of Nashville transit bus drivers, and, of course, spoofing Kanye West. Most importantly, however, is that reviews of the new White Stripes documentary, Under Great White Northern Lights, have all been (pardon the pun) glowing.

A scene from the film, which sounds like a somewhat somber affair, came out today as an “exclusive” on multiple sites, but it’s up on good ol’ YouTube now, so there goes that. Between this scene and the much talked about poignant final “Meg crying” scene, I, for one, am hoping they found a distributor at TIFF to get this thing into theaters.

Watch Jack and Meg walk through a cemetery in Canada while a live performance of “We’re Going to be Friends” plays here or embedded below:

As you may recall from the pre-Swiftgate era, controversy erupted last week over Activision’s use of Kurt Cobain’s image in Guitar Hero 5. In that case, Cobain wasn’t here to chime in on the debate over whether forcing the Nirvana front man’s likeness to sing Bon Jovi songs Karaoke style was just or even legally sound. Now I’m not sure if they signed off on this, but more famed (though living) rockers are getting the music video game avatar treatment: Stooge Iggy Pop and the White Stripes’ Jack White.**

**A rep for LEGO Rock Band has informed us that, in fact, neither Jack or Meg White are represented in the game. The leaked image of White was apparently a fake. We regret the error and apologize.

As seen in the leaked image (via Jeuxvideo.fr) from upcoming game Lego Rock Band above, Iggy appears in his iconic shirtless, microphone stand-wielding state.

Lego Rock Band, featuring Pop and the White Stripes is due out in time for holiday season, while Twitter rants and public outrage should drop later this week. Meanwhile, watch Pop’s video game avatar sing “The Passenger” here or embedded below: