The Ghost Who Walks is out May 25 via Third Man/XL.

A Jack White/Jay-Z collaboration has been spinning in the rumor mill for some time, but we can consider it official after the former’s recent chat with British GQ.

“We did a song together a few weeks ago,” the White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather frontman told the magazine. “It was incredible. I played him something that I’ve been kicking around for a while and he immediately came out with words for it. It’s unbelievable-sounding.”

White has, in the past, described Jay-Z as “just incredible,” while the rapper considers White a “renaissance man.” Both are no strangers to collaboration, and we can’t wait to hear this one.

Release date and other details to follow soon (we hope).

The group—comprised of Shelby Lynne, Olivia Jean, Ruby Rogers and Erin Belle—was originally discovered by White in 2009 and claims a sound heavily rooted in the soul and garage rock of the ’60s.

For the video, White managed to compliment the raw, distortion-laden feel of the track by combining a dark studio with harsh lighting and dressing the group in all black matching outfits. It seems that The Black Belles share his lo-fi, do-it-yourself technique to writing and recording, which lent itself to the cohesiveness between their audio track and his approach to the music video.

Meanwhile, Tim Goldsworthy, who, along with James Murphy, founded DFA Records and has played a vital role in its growth and success, has reportedly split from the label, leaving New York for the UK. Label manager Jonathan Galkin told Resident Advisor that “Tim Goldsworthy moved away to somewhere in the United Kingdom, without informing anyone here at DFA. We have had no word from him since he left the United States. So we moved on with our lives and our business. Simple as that. He most definitely took a piece of us when he left, but we wish him the best with whatever he gets up to next.” Hostile split? Goldsworthy told Resident Advisor he left because of work and family obligations in the UK, and that he would be willing to do more work for the label “if something good came along.”

DFA isn’t the only US record label having a slightly chaotic week. Indie rap imprint Definitive Jux was at the epicenter of internet hype yesterday, when rumors that it would fold arose. Label boss and rapper/producer El-P has posted a statement clarifying the situation. “As a traditional record label, DEF JUX will effectively be put on hiatus. We are not closing, but we are changing,” he writes. He adds, in his statement, that the label is busy “re-imagining” its future. Its website and merch catalog will continue to exist in the meantime.

In brighter news, Jack White is still with us and going strong. Music’s busiest man promises a new album with his band The Dead Weather, a follow-up to last year’s Horehound. A Dead Weather tour is set to kick-off in mid-March, right around the time The White Stripes live film, Under Great White Northern Lights, gets release in box set form.

Midlake’s latest album, The Courage of Others, was released this week on Bella Union. The Guardian asked the band to perform the album as part of its Denton Sessions. You can download the set here.

Finally, Bright Eyes is back. Sort of. News in 2009 suggested that Conor Oberst and Co. will make one more album under their famed indie moniker. There are no album details yet, other than an unamed 2010 release date, but Saddle Creek is reissuing the Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova split, One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels, this March (pre-orders are available right now). Four new Bright Eyes tracks, written in fall 2009, will be included in the release.

Don’t go speeding off to the record store just yet though. The single, which features takes of new tracks “No Horse” and “Jawbreaker,” will only be available through the Third Man Records Vault subscription service, and the package is well worth the price tag.

A subscription will buy not just the Dead Weather single, but also a double LP with every Third Man release from 2009 and a couple new goodies as well. Rockabilly’s First Lady, Wanda Jackson, recently collaborated with White on an album’s worth of material, and two covers—Amy Winehouse’s “You Know I’m No Good” and Johnny Kidd and the Pirates’ “Shakin’ All Over”—are available through the service. Additionally, a single from female garage-rock group Black Belles, discovered by White, will be available via the subscription.

Lastly, don’t forget about the forthcoming White Stripes live box set, which is currently available for pre-order at the Third Man site.

Many of us south of that particular border never had a chance to see the reportedly awesome film, but that fact is set to change in March 2010, when it gets a wide release as part of the Under the Great White Northern Lights limited edition box set.

Needless to say, the package sounds awesome. In addition to a DVD of the film, the box set includes a 16-track live album (on both 180 gram vinyl and CD), another DVD, of the Stripes’ 10th anniversary show, a live 7″, and a 208-page book with photos from the famous Canadian trek.

Pre-order (and why wouldn’t you?) the whole bundle before January 1 and you’ll get live MP3s of “Hotel Yorba”, “Hello Operator”, and “A Martyr for My Love for You”, along with a special holiday card.

The Under the Great White Northern Lights box set is out March 16, 2010.

Jack White is not among them, and as usual, that’s entirely by choice. The White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather captain–a.k.a. the busiest man in the biz–will fill his forthcoming days off with another project, recording a new LP for 72-year-old icon Wanda Jackson (Via P4K).

Jackson’s resume includes a career that spans multiple decades, a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a brief relationship with Elvis Presley (who also mentored her), and more or less being the First Lady of rockabilly. White, in addition to his gazillion other projects, produced Loretta Lynn’s 2004 album Van Lear Rose. Jackson told The Oklahoman that “they had a super album, but he didn’t have her do anything different. She just did her little Loretta Lynn songs. But he told me he’s gonna stretch me some.”

More on Jackson’s illustrious career here: