The Dead Weather In London!

I just discovered today that The Dead Weather, Jack White's newest band, will be playing in London on June 24th! The new band consists of The Kills lead vocalist Alison Mosshart, Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita, The Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence, and Jack White on drums. Rolling Stone has a pretty good article explaining the band's origins, although they are incorrect about the release date of the band's debut album, Horehound (July 13th in Europe and July 14th in the US).

The London show will be their second ever live performance, and their first in Europe. Its already sold out but I found some tickets on ebay for just barely over the face value. Most of you are probably familiar with my (borderline unhealthy) fascination with everything involving Jack White, so you know I'll be attending this show come hell or high water. During the last week in July they're also doing two nights at the Vic in Chicago and one in Nashville, which I'm also game to go to if anyone is interested.

So far there are three songs off of Horehound floating about the internet, all of which can be found in one form or another on youtube: "Hang You From the Heavens", "Are Friends Electric?", and "Treat Me Like Your Mother". Today's Song of the Day is my favorite of the three.