The Dead Weather

The 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., will be ground zero for a blistering assault of explosive riff-rock, courtesy of The Dead Weather, in a full concert webcast live on NPR Music Tuesday. The newly formed band is a supergroup featuring members of The White Stripes and The Kills.

The band's "60 Feet Tall" is a clinic in the sort of loud/soft dynamics and suspense-filled dramatics that Led Zeppelin had perfected by 1970: slick riffing, lumbering percussion and verses that strut, ascend and dissolve before a huge-toned guitar solo splits the tune wide open.

A supergroup with Jack White of The White Stripes and Kills singer Alison Mosshart, The Dead Weather also features members of The Raconteurs. The new band's ferocious debut, Horehound, is shaping up to be one of the year's best rock albums. Listen to the record in its entirety here; on Tuesday, you can hear The Dead Weather perform its songs in a full concert, webcast live on NPR Music.

The Dead Weather is a super-group of sorts with members from several well-loved bands, including The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age and The Kills. The group's new CD isn't out until June, but we've got an early single on this edition of All Songs Considered. Also on the show: the raucous duo Japandroids, singer-songwriter Vienna Teng, St. Vincent, lo-fi pioneer Bill Callahan, and an acoustic version of "Creep" from a new deluxe edition of Radiohead's Pablo Honey.

The band's "60 Feet Tall" is a clinic in the sort of loud/soft dynamics and suspense-filled dramatics that Led Zeppelin had perfected by 1970: slick riffing, lumbering percussion and verses that strut, ascend and dissolve before a huge-toned guitar solo splits the tune wide open.

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The Dead Weather is a super-group of sorts with members from several well-loved bands, including The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age and The Kills. The group's new CD isn't out until June, but we've got an early single on this edition of All Songs Considered. Also on the show: the raucous duo Japandroids, singer-songwriter Vienna Teng, St. Vincent, lo-fi pioneer Bill Callahan, and an acoustic version of "Creep" from a new deluxe edition of Radiohead's Pablo Honey.