The Dead Weather: Side project of White Stripes' Jack White plays furious blues

Salt Lake Tribune - 20th Aug 2009

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Alison Mosshart: When singer Alison Mosshart told her Kills band member about her side project, The Dead Weather, she summarized the effort this way. "Whoops," she recalled telling The Kills' Jamie Hince. "We recorded an album." The Dead Weather is a rock band that wasn't expected to make an album, let alone tour to support one, but you can see the band at The Depot on Aug. 18 performing songs from its debut album, "Horehound." It is yet another side project for Jack White, the busy, enigmatic frontman of The... Read full story at Salt Lake Tribune

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