The thing is that he has "hinted" at new Stripes material multiple times over the last couple of years. It was never a question of "if" there will be another White Stripes album, just "when" it will happen. This is one of the most prolific and fastest-working musicians going today. I guarantee he's had Stripes songs sitting around since Icky Thump came out. It's just a matter of when Meg wants to get her shit together and when they can find three weeks in the studio to bang it out. I will only be truly
when we get a release date or an album title or something more official.