The Dead Weather began a abbreviate run of appropriate examination shows over the weekend in alertness for its aboriginal North American bout abutting month.

The all-star quartet alone in on the Magic Stick in bandage associates Jack White and Dean Fertita's home boondocks of Detroit on Friday, announcement the appearance that morning online. Several hundred fans, aghast by the Detroit Red Wings' Stanley Cup Finals accident to the Pittsburgh Penguins beforehand in the evening, angry out for the 55-minute set that featured 10-songs from the Dead Weather's accessible admission album, "Horehound" (due out July 14), additional a awning of Them's "You Just Can't Win" that's the B-side of the group's most recent single, "Treat Me Like Your Mother."

White connected to authority the boom armchair throughout the show, absolution Queens of the Stone Age's Fertita and, occasionally, the Kills' Alison Mosshart handle guitar parts, admitting he did band on a six-string for one song, "Will There Be Enough Water," while administration the centermost date articulate mic with Mosshart. Bassist Jack Lawrence (the Raconteurs, the Greenhornes, Blanche) took over on drums for that number.

The Dead Weather played in Toronto on Sunday and will accomplish Wednesday at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, as able-bodied as on the online From the Basement alternation (www.ftblive.com) on June 22. The accumulation additionally has shows band up for June 24th in London and June 29th in Paris afore starting a North American bout on July 13th in Washington, D.C.