Much thanks to Miss Modernage for directing us to the following clip from Garbage’s Absolute Garbage DVD, in which Jack White and Shirley Manson chit-chat in the green room during a 2005 tour stop in Detroit. Enjoy a Version 2.0-era Garbage MP3 at bottom.

MP3: Garbage – You Look So Fine (acoustic)

Via Yahoo: *Jack White & his wife, Karen Elson, are the parents of a baby boy. The couple’s second child, named Henry Lee White, was born Tuesday, a publicist said Wednesday.

White and Elson have a 15-month-old daughter, Scarlett Teresa White. “The new child and his mother are both feeling very healthy and happy,” White’s representative, Chloe Walsh, said in a statement to The Associated Press. White, 32, married Elson, a 28-year-old model, in 2005. The White Stripes are on a break from their North America tour, which will resume Sept. 13 at the Kiva Auditorium in Albuquerque, N.M.*

(photo via Celebrity Babies)

MP3: The White Stripes – Jolene

Check out this latest series of Jack White quotes from August’s edition of Interview magazine: “Journalists are inherently the laziest people on earth. Even in the age of Google, they don’t do any work to check what they’re writing about. I’d say 90 percent of what they get is from the press release. We have fun putting things in there – like in the press release for ‘Elephant’, somebody inserted a joke about how none of our studio equipment was made after 1963.”

“Before you knew it, people thought we wouldn’t touch a piece of equipment unless it’s 60 years old! It gets to the point where you’re answering questions based on a joke somebody made.”

“Anytime I pick up a music magazine, I assume 90 percent of it is incorrect, so I make up my own things to believe. Everyone knows the phrase ‘Don’t believe everything you read,’ but how many people actually practice it?” (photo via WSL)

Jack did not have any comments on bloggers, interestingly enough.

MP3: The White Stripes – Suzy Lee

I wonder what Meg makes of this…

Via NME: *The White Stripes’ frontman Jack White has played an impromptu show in London. The star turned up at the Sonic Cathedral Club at The Social in the West End (May 27), where he played three songs before making a swift departure.

White started with ‘Effect And Cause’ from the band’s forthcoming new album ‘Icky Thump’. He then played ‘Sugar Never Tasted So Good’ from the band’s 1997 debut album, backed by former Soledad Brothers drummer Ben Swank on percussion.

White then played a request – the blues classic ‘The House Of The Rising Sun’, made famous by The Animals in the 60s.*

MP3: The White Stripes – Sugar Never Tasted So Good

Apparently Kele is not a fan of Jack White’s ‘politics’ and basically thinks he’s a money-hungry asshole.

I don’t know why in the world he’d think such a thing!

Oh yes, wait, I do.

This just in from Kele, via NME: “It was amazing when Jack White said it wasn’t his job to be critical about foreign policy because he was being paid to be an entertainer.

I thought that was treacherous because it’s complicit with the capitalist society. Selling more records is the only thing that’s important to him, not provoking debate.”

Sorry, Laura, but The Music Slut’s on Team Kele, for sure.

MP3: Bloc Party – This Modern Love

As TMA first reported, Shirley and Jack are indeed working together! NME reports the following:

Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson has enlisted the help of some famous pals for her first solo album. The White Stripes’ frontman Jack White, Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan and The Blue Nile’s Paul Buchanan are all helping out on the record, reports AOL.

The record is due out in 2007.

I personally, would LOVE to hear Shirley cover ‘Tonight Tonight’, but somehow I don’t think Billy Corgan would go for that. I still have high expectations for the solo album. Shirley holds a very special place in my heart that even Jenny Lewis can’t fill (sorry all).

Does anyone else have as high expectations for this album as I do?

MP3: Garbage – Stupid Girl

As TMA first reported, Shirley and Jack are indeed working together! NME reports the following:

Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson has enlisted the help of some famous pals for her first solo album. The White Stripes’ frontman Jack White, Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan and The Blue Nile’s Paul Buchanan are all helping out on the record, reports AOL.

The record is due out in 2007.

I personally, would LOVE to hear Shirley cover ‘Tonight Tonight’, but somehow I don’t think Billy Corgan would go for that. I still have high expectations for the solo album. Shirley holds a very special place in my heart that even Jenny Lewis can’t fill (sorry all).

Does anyone else have as high expectations for this album as I do?

MP3: Garbage – Stupid Girl

In a recent interview with the NME, Jack White declares that his energy is divided ’50/50′ between The Raconteurs and The White Stripes. Apparently, he’s been working on some tracks for the new WS album with Meg, in between Raconteurs tour dates.

Do I predict a catfight between Brendan Benson and Meg White? I’d pay to see that.

Would you rather Jack play with the boys or venture back into Stripeville?

MP3: ‘Hotel Yorba’ (live from Hotel Yorba)

Jack White has a heart-on for the Arctic Monkeys!