And the award for best multi-tasker goes to... (drum roll please): Jack White!

Jack White has joined forces with Southern rock'n'rollers the Dex Romweber Duo for a new seven-inch single.

Trent Reznor and Meg White are both set to tie the knot -- and not to each other.

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.

This week's top stories had everyone talking: Kanye West mouthed off about Thom Yorke, the White Stripes disappointed on Conan's last night at Late Night, Chris Brown and Rihanna continued to cause controversy, and SPIN's Ellen Carpenter had some eyebrow-raising ideas about how to spend the $787 billion economic stimulus -- and blink-182's Mark Hoppus had something to say about it on his

The White Stripes played in public for the first time in nearly two years on Friday night's final episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and while the show's outgoing host bathed the appearance with praise, the band's wildly unpolished rendition of "We're Going to Be Friends" didn't amount to anything approaching a triumphant return.