Music Album of the Week: The Dead Weather “Horehound”

ARTIST: The Dead Weather

ALBUM: Horehound

FUN FACT: Three tracks from the album are featured as downloads for the new Rock Band release.

WHY COMPLEX IS CO-SIGNING IT: Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs fame) has yet to disappoint us with his many musical projects and Horehound is not an exception. This time, he’s called upon singer Alison Mosshart of The Kills, guitarist Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age, and bassist Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs to create The Dead Weather—a blues-infused alternative rock band that gives off an inexplicable coolness. There’s no word of any of the members leaving their original bands, so we’re taking this album as a side project put together by a super-talented foursome…

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Music When Soundtrack Collabos Get Weird

Blue-eyed blues-rock demigod Jack White and sexiest woman alive Alicia Keys (yeah, we said it'check the resume) might not exactly be musical peas in a pod, but they both possess ridiculous quantities of talent. And now they’re teaming up to pen and perform the theme song to November’s Quantum of Solace, the newest James Bond jammy.

It won’t be the first time that strange bedfellows have teamed up for a soundtrack. There have been surprising mash-ups in the past like Roni Size hooking up with Cypress Hill, and even a Fat Boys x Freddy Kruegar rap banger atrocity. With the Keys/White collabo on its way, we’ve rounded up some prime examples, arranged in order of increasing bizarreness. Dig in the crates with us after the jiddump, chiddumps.