is a fucking great new band. I love it, it is the best of jack white and and the chick from the kills without having to sound like a joy division rip off
The Dead Weather is an
American alternative rock supergroup formed in
Nashville,
Tennessee in 2009. Comprised of
Alison Mosshart (of
The Kills and
Discount),
Jack White (of
The White Stripes and
The Raconteurs),
Dean Fertita (of
Queens of the Stone Age) and
Jack Lawrence (of
The Raconteurs and
The Greenhornes)
[1], The Dead Weather debuted at the opening of
Third Man Records' Nashville headquarters on March 11, 2009. The band performed live for the first time at the event, immediately before releasing their debut single "
Hang You from the Heavens".
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In January 2009, Mosshart, Fertita, Lawrence, and White got together for an impromptu jam at White's
Third Man studio. The session was followed by two-and-a-half weeks of song writing and recording, during which the Dead Weather formed.
[2] Said White: "Things just started to happen. We didn't have a direction. We just went a song a day, two songs a day, whatever we could do and recorded them on the fly... There was no time to think about what it was. It just
was."
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[edit] Horehound
Main article:
Horehound (album)
Horehound is The Dead Weather's debut album. It was released on July 14th 2009 in North America, and July 13th in the UK and mainland Europe. It entered the U.S. Billboard 200 Album Charts at #6 and the UK Album Charts at #14. Three tracks from
Horehound ("No Hassle Night", "Hang You From the Heavens", and "Treat Me Like Your Mother") were made available as
downloadable content for the
Rock Band video game series on the same day as the North American release.
Dead Weather Official Site