Why is Jack White Playing the Drums for the Dead Weather?

OC Weekly | July 28, 2009
It's perplexing that in the Dead Weather, White's current project and the most ubiquitously publicized band of 2009, he's playing ... drums? It feels like a novelty for novelty's sake, like Michael Jordan trying baseball.

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