On the heels of the announcement that they will appear at the sixth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, The Whites Stripes have leaked information about their forthcoming album. In a message posted online,  the duo mentioned that their new disc will be called Icky Thump and will be released "as soon as corporately possible." The group also listed a few potential song-titles, including “Catch Hell Blues,” “Little Cream Soda,” “Rag and Bone,” “You Don't Know What Love Is (Just Do As You're Told),” “I'm Slowly Turning Into You”, and “Icky Thump.”  In typical White Stripes fashion the group is being anything but straightforward: “It is our first album to include a title track, which curiously (and not ironically) has the same words in it's name. Though some residents of northern England might almost recognize the title, the Stripes stress they are spelling it wrong intentionally just for “kicks” and “metaphors,” and to avoid a possible lawsuit from the estate of Billy Eckstine.”

The group’s sixth album was recorded at Nashville, TN’s Blackbird Studio for Warner Brothers. The duo spent three weeks recording Icky Thump, the longest they have worked on any of their albums. "We are doing our best (whatever that is) to release the album as soon as corporately possible,” the group said. “And though we are tired, worn, weary, hungry, cold, and left without an ounce of nutrition amongst ourselves, we are in the midst of planning performance type shows aroundst the world." In addition to Bonnaroo the White Stripes will appear at Germany's Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals in June.

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