I’m still under the weather (bleh) and a couple Jack White bits are piling up here, so let’s clear out the queue, kids.

Jack’s new “darker and more dangerous” pseudo supergroup The Dead Weather are scheduled to play on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on Thursday, June 18. As you may recall, Jack and Meg White performed on Conan’s final Late Night episode, so it’s cool to see the Jack/Conan bromance has also made the move to L.A. Perhaps the pair should collaborate on their own brand of SPF 50.

Ever since the Raconteurs were formed, the future of the White Stripes has come up in almost every Jack White interview. Speaking to Times Online’s Hardeep Phull, Jack tried to put those split rumors to rest once and for all, saying, “I’d like to do another five White Stripes albums in the next 10 years, but it’ll probably take a minute to get round to that. It’s okay, [Meg’s] used to me being busy. When we started the White Stripes, I was in three different bands.” Okay, the WS are officially not going anywhere.

Finally, remember that producer/engineer Jim Diamond who sued the White Stripes over royalties from their first two albums? He spoke to Phoenix New Times’ Martin Cizmar recently, saying that he lost the lawsuit due to the statute of limitations, but he then took a swipe at Jack’s leaving Detroit for Nashville: “I don’t think he had many friends left in Detroit. I think he alienated a lot of people,” Diamond said, adding later, “one thing about Detroit, most people are pretty genuine, I’ve found… When they’re not genuine, they move to Nashville.”

Okay, I’ve officially lost count on how many projects Jack White has in the works. Off the top of my head, we’ve got albums and/or 7” singles from The Dead Weather, Mildred and the Mice (his wife, Karen Elson), Dex Romweber Duo, Rachelle Garniez, and a White Stripes film of their Canadian tour. That’s just for this year, but it looks like we’ve got a big one coming next year.

In an interview with Music Connection White revealed a lot more about his Nashville-based musical revolution, including a denunciation of Pro Tools, talk of a rare mixing board from a South African television studio, and this surprising bit from the article’s author on the sidebar: “White hopes to start working on a solo album at the end of 2009.”

Jack’s projects are almost always billed as a collaboration, but he usually steals the spotlight and has actually done very little work completely solo. A few songs on the Cold Mountain soundtrack are the most notable examples to me, but there could be a few tracks here and there that I’m forgetting. Either way, it will be great to hear how Jack’s (sometimes frightening) amount of energy works without anyone else for it to bounce off.

Prince might want to second-guess his decision to reject big Guitar Hero bucks after he hears about their latest round of featured players. Even though it isn’t due out until after the summer, Guitar Hero 5 buzz has already begun and it’s only going to get louder once word gets out that the White Stripes, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash’s estate, Vampire Weekend, and Kings of Leon have signed along the dotted line.

USA Today Game Hunters’ Mike Snider reports that the new Guitar Hero features the bands listed above and more. “We have a lot of new indie artists as well and Iron Maiden as more classic rock or heavy metal,” Guitar Hero project director Brian Bright said. “We’ve been trying to get the White Stripes and they have finally come around.”

I think Jack White signing over “Blue Orchid” to Guitar Hero is a kind of tipping point for bands wanting to cash in, but keep their indie cred. It’s only a matter of time until we get Guitar Hero: Bon Iver Acoustic Edition.

The 18-city whirlwind White Stripes 2007 tour of Canada in which Meg and Jack White promoted their album Icky Thump will be documented in their forthcoming film, The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights.

Jack leaked the news about the project to Mojo magazine (the interview isn’t online) this month and pointed out that the film’s title lines up well with their last DVD effort, saying, “our last concert film we made was The White Stripes Under Blackpool Lights.”

The fact that the film features their Canadian tour is particularly interesting because we just found out that Meg’s exhaustion, which caused the cancellation of much of the American leg of the tour, began amid the Canadian jaunt.

Also worth noting, in Self-Titled’s interview with The Dead Weather recently where Jack first revealed that he was working on a movie, he added that it could possibly be released in theaters.

Dexter Romweber, of the Flat Duo Jets and Dexter Romweber Duo, has been cited over and over by Jack White as one of The White Stripes’ greatest influences. Just take one look at his image or listen to his music and it’s amazing how similar Romweber’s duo with his biological sister is to White’s duo with his imaginary sister.

Now Jack is a very wealthy protégé and has taken his former master under his wing, performing, producing, and releasing a forthcoming Dexter Romweber Duo vinyl 7”. In an interview with Nashville’s Metromix, Romweber reveals lots of behind the scenes bits about the sessions, including Jack’s role on his song “The Wind Did Move.”

“Sara [Romweber] drums and plays tambourine,” Romweber said. “Jack played bass and sang and then I played electric guitar, sang and played organ. And then Jack put a saw sound on it—it’s him sawing on a board to get a sound the song needed.”

It looks like Jack’s new Third Man Records studio/store/stage is a hotbed of creativity, with its custom James Bond drum kit and some kind of musical saw. There’s more to come too. He told Music Radar recently that he has worked on roughly ten more albums coming out this year.

For more on Jack’s collaboration with the Romweber siblings go here, or here.

First Zooey, then Mandy, and now Meg?! The White Stripes’ Meg White is engaged to marry Jackson Smith, the son of legendary rocker Patti Smith and late MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith. The Detroit News reports the couple plan to marry on May 22 in Nashville, TN, where White’s bandmate and former husband Jack White was also married and currently resides.

The Modern Age reports that Jackson Smith has been putting his legendary rock DNA to good use in Detroit-based band Back in Spades. According to the Detroit Free Press, Smith and White met last summer, were engaged a few weeks ago, and currently live together at Meg’s house in Detroit.