Dead Weather Album Streaming Online!

10:00 AM GMT 09/07/2009

The Dead Weather, Jack White's latest musical venture, are now streaming their debut album Horehound (4 stars in MOJO 188) online.

The album, released in the UK on July 13, will only be available to listen to via the iLike website for the next 24 hours.

The band comprises singer Alison Mosshart, keyboardist/guitarist Dean Fertita and bassist Jack Lawrence. White appears on drums.

The record is the first to appear on White's new Third Man label.

To listen to the new album in full, click HERE.

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It's Beck and Tom Waits in conversation! It's all happening over at a new section of Beck's website. Here's an explanation from the man himself:

"Irrelevant Topics in a new section featuring conversations between musicians, artists, writers, etc. on various subjects, without promotional pretext or editorial direction. For the first in this series of conversations, the legendary musician and performer, Tom Waits agreed lend an hour of his time to talk about anything and nothing in particular. Here is Pt. 1 of that conversation."

Read part 1 of the rather surreal transcript HERE.

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Rosanne Cash will release her 12th studio album on October 6 via Manhatten Records.

The List will feature 12 new interpretations of songs given to her by her father in 1973. Concerned that his daughter didn't know the true heritage of country music, the late, great Johnny Cash gave her a list of the 100 Essential Country Songs and promptly told her to learn them. All of them.

"The List was far-ranging and thorough," says Cash today. "It was assembled from my father's intuitive understanding of each critical juncture in the evolution of country music. There were old Appalachian folk ballads, and the songs of Jimmie Rodgers and Woody Guthrie. The influence of gospel and Southern blues were crucial. Then he segued into rockabilly and the birth of modern country music by way of Hank Williams, and up to the present, which was then 1973. He also included a couple of his own songs. I endeavored to learn them all and it was an education."

The List will include covers of songs by The Carter Family, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Cochran/Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan. The record also features a host of very special guests including Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Rufus Wainwright.

For more info, head over to Rosanne's official site HERE.

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And finally...Happy Birthday Bon Scott! The AC/DC man would have been 63 today. Here he is rocking out with Whole Lotta Rosie:

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:00 AM GMT 09/07/2009

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