Coachella Artist Spotlight: The Dead Weather

The Dead Weather is an American rock group founded by The White Stripes front man, Jack White that came together as a sort of accident. But that accident proved to be another one of White’s great accomplishments to the garage-rock genre.

Click more to learn more about The Dead Weather and their new album.

Jack White’s other side project, The Raconteurs were touring near the end of 2008 and unfortunately, White wasn’t feeling up to par.  He then asked Alison Mosshart, vocalist for The Kills if she would help out on vocals at some of the shows. The onstage collaboration of White and Mosshart, along with The Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence and Queens of the Stone Age member Dean Fertita eventually led them to make a record together, which was called Horehound.

Horehound was released July 14, 2009 and entered the U.S. Billboard 200 Album Charts at #6.  Three tracks from Horehound were made available to Guitar Hero enthusiasts entitled, “No Hassle Night,” “Hang You from the Heavens” and “Treat Me Like Your Mother.”

With their first album proving to be a great success, there was speculation that their second album, Sea of Cowards first single was to be, “Die by the Drop,” which proved to be true as you can now preview the song on Shockhound.com.  The Dead Weather’s unofficial release date of Sea of Cowards is rumored to be May 7th, so keep a look out.