You guys don't understand how damn good the Alabama Shakes are... really, you don't. Okay, maybe you do, but seriously give it a shot - don't let the hype (is there any really?!) take over your brain like it does with most artists. 

Alabama Shakes have said that Jack White and My Morning Jacket's Jim James would be their dream collaboration. (If this happens, my brain will seriously explode. Seriously.)

Speaking to NME in a video you can watch above, singer Brittany Howard says the pair would be her ultimate jamming partners. She says:

My dream collaboration would probably be Jim James and Jack White – all together and we'd just come up with some stuff. The way Jim James arranges his songs - that's perfect. He's already a great songwriter and then you throw Jack White in the mix and he's got this crazy way he plays guitar, I just feel like we would all have a lot of ideas, it would kind of be endless.

The band have previously worked with White, who asked them to play a gig at his Nashville record store to record a single for a new line of seven inches for his Third Man Records label. The band will also support White on tour this week. 

Last week, Alabama Shakes told NME that their success is because they've focused on sincerity, rather than trying to be "original" or "different". ?Howard said: "A lot of people are like, 'I want to be different, I want to be original, I want to be an electronic band that mixes this and this', instead of just writing songs together as people and being sincere about it."

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In more Tim Burton news, The Killers' contribution to the new T.B. film Dark Shadows has surfaced online. 

Look down to listen to the track – via Spin - which is a cover of Raspberries' 1972 track 'Go All The Way'. You can listen to the original song at the bottom of the page too. 

The Killers are booked to headline this summer's V Festival and told NME earlier this year that their new album would be finished in May or June, and might even be out in time for their August shows. 

Bassist Mark Stoemer said: "It might be out [in time for V] but there's no guarantees. We technically started last May, but we've been doing it in pieces, and it's kind of taken a while to feel it out and figure out what it means to be a band again, because we took so much time off."

The bassist added that the album saw the band going in a more "rock direction" than their 2008 effort 'Day & Age'. He said: "Stylistically, it's pushing in more of a rock direction than the last album. But we're also doing something we haven't done before. It'll definitely sound like us."

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Johnny Depp has revealed that he paid close attention to original Dark Shadows actorJonathan Frid for his new role.

Depp takes on the part played by Frid in Tim Burton's remake of the cult 1960s gothic soap opera. And now he has said that he was faithful to the original actors portrayal, stating that "a vampire should look like a vampire," in response to recent portrayals such as in Twilight and The Vampire Diaries.

He told Flicks And Bits: "Every angle I tried, I kept coming back to Jonathan Frid's iconic performance. Approaching Barnabas, even in the early days of trying to explore the possibilities of the character, no matter where you went in your head, if you tried to veer away from the original Jonathan Frid character, it was apparent to both Tim and myself that it had to be rooted in Jonathan Frid's character. It just had to be."

Depp went on to explain the appeal: "It was so classic and this sort of classic monster, like Fangoria magazine or that kind of thing. So, in terms of that, Jonathan did have, when he was playing Barnabas, there was a kind of rigidity to him, that pole up his back, this elegance that was always there.

"And yeah, I did believe, Tim and I talked early on, a vampire should look like a vampire an it was a kind of rebellion against vampires that look like underwear models."

Frid died in April this year, aged 87. Dark Shadows is on general release now, and you can watch the trailer below.

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