The Dead Weather are
a brand new rock outfit consisting of Dean Fertita, Jack
Lawrence, Alison Mosshart and Jack White. The
impetus for the band came when Mosshart’s band The
Kills opened on a few US tour dates for The
Raconteurs. Recognizing immediately the musical
synergy between Mosshart, White and Lawrence, the trio
devised a plot to record together during some down time
in White’s own Third Man Recording Studio in Nashville
where White enlisted the addition of erstwhile Raconteurs’ touring
accomplice and Queens Of The Stone Age collaborator Dean
Fertita. What was initially imagined as a one-off collaboration
for a 7” single release turned into a full blown
album project once the quartet switched on the recording
tape. The Dead Weather’s menacing sounds were so
electrifying that they couldn’t help but keep the
tape rolling. In three weeks they had recorded a full
length album, Horehound produced
by Jack White, to be released on White’s Third
Man Records in June. The album features
the band’s explosive debut single, “Hang
You Up From The Heavens”, which is available throughiTunes,
backed with a dirge driven cover of Gary Numan’s “Are
Friends Electric?”
