A few months back we gave you the heads up about Jack White and Alicia Keys teaming up to record a duet for the theme song of the new James Bond movie Quantum Of Solace - the first duet in the long history of the legendary series. While the latest installment in the secret agent franchise doesn’t hit theaters until November, the official music video surfaced last week for the White penned tune, Another Way To Die.

The tune, which combines Jack’s rock and blues with Keys pop and soul to produce arguably one of the best Bond theme songs in quite sometime, even features White on drums too. Check it out for yourselves…

More Bond Themes:

• Sheryl Crow - Tomorrow Never Dies
• Madonna - Die Another Day
• Tom Jones - Thunderball

• James Bond movies are usually generally memorable for a few things - great gadgets, hot chicks and those opening credit theme songs. For the latest Bond flick Quantum Of Solace, which hits theaters this November, the odd duo of Jack White and Alicia Keys have recorded the White penned and produced track Another Way To Die. This marks the first time in the storied film series history that the song will be a duet. Good stuff!

• Remember awhile back when all of us in the Northeast got excited about the Vineland Music Festival? Well it looks like the continuing saga of the on, then off, then on again festival has finally reached an end as promoters have pulled the plug on the festie that never was. C3, the folks that bring us Lollapalooza and ACL every year, cite the All Points West festival as the reason for its demise.
• Usually I get a bit angry when I hear about classic albums that are being reissues and remastered - I’m looking right at you Elvis Costello - since I’ve have to go and replace the ones that I already own. Well, on September 30, I may change my tune a bit as we will finally see six of Creedence’s classic albums - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy & The Poor Boys, Cosmo’s Factory and Pendulum - get the digital remastering treatment along with the addition of some great bonus cuts. I’m ready to throw down some of my hard earn cash for that.

I’m going to leave it up to the snarky hipster blogs to pass judgment on Sonic Youth for releasing their new “greatest hits” album - Hits For Squares - exclusively at Starbucks stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. (as well as online).

That’s not really the story here, it’s actually the fact that the tracks on the album were handpicked by an interesting mix of musicians, actors and writers, who also wrote about their selections in the liner notes. Among those contributed to the compilation are Beck, David Cross, and Catherine Keener.

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• PotW ongoing Beards, Blazers & Glasses series takes a look at The Kills
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• Beana over at RD shares some great pictures from Ween’s Europe tour
• Find out why Ben Kweller could have saved music in 2002
• Vulture is in search of this summer’s Umbrella - nominees so far include songs from Usher, Estelle, Leona Lewis & N.E.R.D.
• Ear Farm’s Band of the Week is D.C.’s own These United States

Finally, with Bonnaroo less than a month away the rumors are already swirling about possible sit-ins that could take place on the multitude of stages in Manchester. The latest comes from Consequence of Sound who points to a recent Billboard article where Pearl Jam’s Mike McCreedy drops a hint that he’d love to have Jack White join them on stage during their Saturday night headlining set.