Alison Mosshart, vocalist for punk minimalists the Kills, and Jack White have joined forces as the Dead Weather, a new band also featuring White's Raconteurs bandmate Jack Lawrence and Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita.

Mosshart will sing, Lawrence will play bass, Fertita will play guitar -- and White will be on drums and vocals.

As SPIN.com saw first hand, the Raconteurs' performance at the 2008 installment of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was truly jaw-dropping in its musicianship and sheer volume.

In the just released music video for "Old Enough," a blue grass-tinged ditty off the Raconteurs' new album Consolers of the Lonely, the quartet's 19th century jug-band-lost-in-woods aesthetic is taken to trippy heights courtesy of Los Angeles photographer Autumn de Wilde.

For R&B songstress Alicia Keys, collaborating with rock'n'roll heavyweight Jack White on "Another Way to Die," the theme song for Quantum of Solace and the first-ever duet in Bond movie history, was like a dream come true. But isn't about time six-string deity Mr. White chimed in?