Let’s not even try to ignore the elephant (pun intended) in the room. The Dead Weather is the latest adventure of one Jack White: White Stripe, Raconteur, Grammy-winning producer, guitar hero and hands down one of the busiest artists in music today. But in the Dead Weather, he’s happy just banging the drums, leaving most of the singing to Alison Mosshart and the guitars to Dean Fertita. Given that Mosshart also sings in the Kills, Fertita shreds with Queens of the Stone Age and bassist Jack Lawrence is also White’s bandmate in the Raconteurs, the word “supergroup” is perhaps inevitable, but this is no ego trip or casual side project (though in typical White fashion, it all came together at lightning speed). The Dead Weather made its debut in March at a concert celebrating the opening of the Nashville headquarters of White’s Third Man Records label, which will release the band’s debut, Horehound, on June 9. Judging by the first single, “Hang You From the Heavens” (backed with a cover of Gary Numan’s “Are Friends Electric?”), the forecast on the Dead Weather calls for searing, blues- and psychedelia-infused goth rock. And like everything else White has a hand in these days, it’s bound to be huge.