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Weekly Updates*We were surprised that Dead Weather's album, Horehound, is good. Not that it shouldn't be--the group joins brute forces Allison Mosshart of The Kills and Jack White of The White Stripes, plus two other capable dudes from less popular bands--but the concept of a rock supergroup is almost always a dubious one. Spend a lot of time listening to Superwolf? Tomahawk? Temple of the Dog? Didn't think so. So when Dead Weather's spare, Southern garage album declared itself a supergroup game-changer, we decided to reinvestigate our potentially outdated stereotype to see where some musicians may or may not have gone wrong joining with their famous friends.
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JACK WHITE
* FORMS WHITE STRIPES * DIVORCES MEG WHITE, TELLS EVERYONE THEY ARE SIBLINGS * ELEPHANT RELEASED * STARS IN COLD MOUNTAIN * PRODUCES LORETTA LYNN ALBUM * FORMS SIDE PROJECT, RANCONTEURS * DEAD WEATHER ALBUM RELEASED
ALLISON MOSSHART
* RELEASE OF HALF FICTION AS DISCOUNT SINGER * FORMS KILLS, COLLABORATING CROSS-ATLANTIC * ROUGH TRADE RELEASES KILLS DEBUT * SMOKES THROUGH ENTIRE NYC SET * KILLS DOCUMENTARY RELEASED * NYLON COVER STAR * DEAD WEATHER ALBUM RELEASED
BILLY CORGAN
* FORMS SMASHING PUMPKINS * SIAMESE DREAM RELEASED, SELLS 4 MILLION COPIES * MADE FUN OF IN PAVEMENT SONG "RANGE LIFE" * SMASHING PUMPKINS BREAK UP * FORMS EWAN * SMASHING PUMPKINS REFORMS * DRUMMER JIMMY CHAMBERLIN LEAVES, CORGAN RECORDS SOLO
DAVE GROHL
* JOINS DC HARDCORE BAND SCREAM * JOINS NIRVANA, REPLACES OLD DRUMMER * NEVERMIND RELEASED * KURT COBAIN COMMITS SUICIDE * FORMS FOO FIGHTERS AS GUITARIST AND SINGER FOO FIGHTERS RELEASE THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE RELEASES METAL STUDIO PROJECT PROBOT
BOB DYLAN
* RECORDS VOCALS ON ONE VERSE OF KURTIS BLOW TRACK "STREET ROCK" * FORMS TRAVELING WILBURYS * RECEIVED GRAMMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD * RECORDS AN MTV UNPLUGGED ALBUM * PERFORMS FOR THE POPE * WINS ACADEMY AWARD FOR "THINGS HAVE CHANGED" FROM WONDER BOYS * I'M NOT THERE, BIOPIC RELEASED
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