Jack White phoned a US radio station last week and berated the DJ because she played loads of tracks from the new White Stripes album 'Icky Thump' without label permission.
Describing the incident, the DJ, Electra from Chicago's Q101 station, wrote on her blog: "At 2pm today, during my show Q101 became the first station in the world to play the new White Stripes album 'Icky Thump'. At 4pm today Jack White called Q101's main offices from Spain where they're touring, looking specifically for me, to yell at me for leaking the album and, in part, being 'messed up for the entire [music] business'. I felt like I was going to throw up. Weirdest, most surreal conversation of my life".
She continued: "Jack asked me to take responsibility for leaking the record, and asked if I was sorry for what I'd done. We tried to explain where we were coming from - someone gave us a copy of a record that we were really excited to play, and the whole experience was an hour-long love-fest for him and his band - but he wasn't having it. He hung up, very, very angry, and I thought I was going to cry".
'Icky Thump' is out soon anyway. So White should probably calm down a bit, it was bound to be leaked sooner or later.