Posted in Music on Mar 18th, 2010
So this is interesting. Jack White’s new band The Dead Weather played a show in Auckland last night, a show which I didn’t actually go to but while I was sitting at home I came across this recent article for GQ Magazine, which said this: //
Posted in Music on Mar 17th, 2010
The Dead Weather are indeed in the country and set to play at the Powerstation in Auckland tonight. The group have been busy working on a new album, which is rumoured to be released sometime in the next few months so you can expect to hear some brand new songs before anyone else. This also [...]
And just when you already thought there was too much happening in the next few months. The Dead Weather — a.k.a. Jack White’s new side project with Alison Mosshart, Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence — have announced that they will play one show in New Zealand next March. Kids, I suggest you get that pocket [...]
Posted in Music on Jul 26th, 2009
First there was this. Now T-Swift (aka Taylor Swift) has got her sights set on working with Jack White on her third album, the follow up to the multi-platinum (and platinum by New Zealand standards), ‘Fearless’. When asked by MTV recently, who she would most like to work with in the future, Swift mentioned Jack [...]
Posted in Music on Jul 24th, 2009
‘Horehound’, the debut from The Dead Weather is a super-group of sorts, bringing together Jack White, Jack Lawrence of The Greenhornes and Queens of the Stone Age guitarist, Dean Ferita. But for the most part it’s not White taking centre-stage. Instead he leaves that to indie-princess and Kills vocalist Alison Mosshart, who easily handles the [...]
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