The Dead Weather

Crafting a darkly potent mix of garage, blues, punk, and rock & roll informed by the members' other projects, the Dead Weather features <a href="spotify:artist:4FZ3j1oH43e7cukCALsCwf">Jack White</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5BYuBzqmTXwUDw2rYkwExr">the Kills</a>' <a href="spotify:artist:5rexG906fVLfq8H9m8J9P9">Alison Mosshart</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4pejUc4iciQfgdX6OKulQn">Queens of the Stone Age</a> guitarist Dean Fertita, and <a href="spotify:artist:4wo1267SJuUfHgasdlfNfc">the Raconteurs</a>' "Little Jack" Lawrence. The group began in 2008 after <a href="spotify:artist:4wo1267SJuUfHgasdlfNfc">the Raconteurs</a>' U.S. tour with <a href="spotify:artist:5BYuBzqmTXwUDw2rYkwExr">the Kills</a>: Toward the end of the tour, bronchitis made it difficult for <a href="spotify:artist:4FZ3j1oH43e7cukCALsCwf">White</a> to sing as much as usual, so <a href="spotify:artist:5rexG906fVLfq8H9m8J9P9">Mosshart</a> was drafted to sing several of his songs. Her on-stage chemistry with the band led <a href="spotify:artist:4FZ3j1oH43e7cukCALsCwf">White</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5rexG906fVLfq8H9m8J9P9">Mosshart</a>, Lawrence, and <a href="spotify:artist:4FZ3j1oH43e7cukCALsCwf">White</a>'s house guest Fertita to record a cover of <a href="spotify:artist:5KQMtyPE8DCQNUzoNqlEsE">Gary Numan</a>'s "Are Friends Electric?" The newly formed band began working on a full album at <a href="spotify:artist:4FZ3j1oH43e7cukCALsCwf">White</a>'s Third Man Studios in Nashville Tennessee, with <a href="spotify:artist:4FZ3j1oH43e7cukCALsCwf">White</a> on drums for the first time since his days with <a href="spotify:artist:09RNiiqzkrUDctiZqdXXnk">Goober & the Peas</a>. The Dead Weather finished recording their album in a matter of weeks and made its live debut in March 2009, performing a short set for 150 friends at Third Man's offices to celebrate the release of the single Hang You from the Heavens/Are Friends Electric?. Horehound, the Dead Weather's debut album, arrived that summer. The band continued to tour and record through 2009, and <a href="spotify:artist:5rexG906fVLfq8H9m8J9P9">Mosshart</a> announced that their second album was halfway done that October. In March 2010, the single Die by the Drop arrived. Sea of Cowards, which boasted a heavier and more integrated sound than the band's debut, appeared that May. That year, the Dead Weather contributed the song "Rolling in on a Burning Tire" to the Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack. In 2013, <a href="spotify:artist:4FZ3j1oH43e7cukCALsCwf">White</a> announced that the band was working on new material, and the 7" Open Up (That's Enough)/Rough Detective arrived late that year as a part of a package from <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Third+Man+Records%22">Third Man Records</a> subscription service The Vault. Further singles heralded the release of the Dead Weather's third album Dodge and Burn -- which featured remastered versions of the previously issued songs along with new material -- in September 2015. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi