When speaking of inspiration, many musicians will say a song, lyric or riff "came out of nowhere" and ended up being a hit. For the Dead Weather, the same can be said for almost every aspect of the band's existence.

Starting from their formation, the combination of the White Stripes' Jack White, the Kills' Alison Mosshart, Queens of the Stone Age keyboardist and former Waxwings frontman Dean Fertita, and Raconteurs bassist "Little" Jack Lawrence is the fortuitous result of circumstance and chemistry. "The Raconteurs and the Kills were on tour together and at the end of it, I lost my voice and actually slipped a disc in my neck and I couldn't sing," White, who mainly handles drums in the group, tells Spinner. "We asked Alison if she could sing my songs at the end of the set and she did, so we started all performing onstage together. We had one day left in Nashville and we said 'Let's do a 7" together, just do something,' and we ended up writing songs and becoming a full-on band."

The first tracks were a cover of Gary Numan's 'Are Friends Electric?' and the six-plus minute dirge-like, 'Will There Be Enough Water,' a song written and recorded in one take at White's Third Man Studios. "It just sort of happened and was recorded at the same time," Mosshart says of the spontaneous track. Because of the results, the band decided to reconvene in Nashville after Mosshart finished a tour with the Kills. The resulting album, 'Horehound,' was completed soon after. "It was all done in about two-and-a-half, three weeks," says Fertita, who handles most of the guitars and organs. "One song a day, write and record." "All the songs on the album were written in the studio," adds White. "Nobody came with anything beforehand."

Just like the songwriting, the band name and album title came about with little to no prompting. "We can't remember," says White of the origin of the Dead Weather moniker. "Yeah, we don't' remember at all," adds Mosshart. "It sounded right." As for 'Horehound,' which is comes from a genus of plant, White offers only slightly more insight. "It's a word that I had always liked just for the double or triple meaning that can come from it," he says. "I had forgotten about it and when we were talking about album titles, it popped back up, like 'Oh, right. That's a great word,' probably because I think we had breakfast at Cracker Barrel or something."

Even though 'Horehound' is wrapped and ready for a July 14th release, the band's creativity hasn't slowed. "We should have another six records out this year," Fertita says. Adds White, "We want to record and we're just waiting for the next window when we can. I'd like to release singles that aren't on an album, and Dean was talking about this as well. I got a 7" vinyl out and an MP3 up on iTunes within three weeks of recording it because of this Third Man situation, so we can do that with ease." But even with the addition of these new songs, White claims the future is unwritten for the Dead Weather. "This is a new band with a whole new system, recorded in a studio designed by the drummer," he says. "These are things we've never been a part of before in all the records we've made in all of our other bands and I think it's working for us. It's inspiring and we're going to keep trying it."