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If you think Jack White and Alicia Keys make for strange bedfellows, you're not alone. But, at long last, the unlikely pair have debuted their collaboration "Another Way to Die," which will be featured in the upcoming James Bond flick Quantum of Solace.

Those of you who followed 007-gate earlier this summer will remember the nail-biting tension as we waited to discover who would be singing the first duet in Bond theme song history for the upcoming film Quantum of Solace. Jack White, enigmatic frontman of the White Stripes, and singer-songwriter Alicia Keys ended up being the winning duo. Details are sketchy at this point, but it looks like the song, titled "Another Way to Die", has escaped from its holding facility deep underneath MGM studios (thanks to a potpourri of lethal gadgets disguised as suitcases and pens) and found its way into a Coke advertisement. The song's instrumental track is already TV-bound, and Mr. White is none too pleased about it.

We are on the second week of our six-week tear here. Last night found us in Detroit. I was chilling eating my dinner before the show, and what was on TV but 8 Mile. I had to watch it because Eminem is from Detroit, and, in all honestly, the freestyle is inspiration, plus the whole movie is dope.

8 Mile put me in a Detroit state of mind. There was a hell of a lot of good music that came out and is coming out of Detroit. John Lee Hooker, Stevie Wonder and Motown, right? Recently, other peeps like Em, Kid Rock and my boy Jack White. Sick soulful music grows in Detroit. 

The 22nd theme song for the 22nd James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, won’t be like all the others. Sure, the title still mentions dying, and it’ll probably play over the opening credits like all the others, but this one will be special. It will be the franchise’s first duet.

Listening to the upcoming album by Lucinda Williams, Little Honey, I was thrilled to come across the voice of Elvis Costello on a song called "Jailhouse Tears." Country/rock duets have a pretty long history and even some commercial success (see Jon Bon Jovi with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles). But recently, they've also gotten pretty damn cool. Here are the best country/rock duets of recent years (and a few don't even involve Emmylou Harris):

Over-achieving Shaun Brumber gets some warm words from his literary hero at the end of 2002 college-admissions flick Orange County: "Every good writer has a conflicted relationship with the place he grew up," the good writer moralizes. Examples? "Joyce, Faulkner, Tolstoy."

When Swell Season played "Falling slowly," and Glen Hansard asked the crowd to sing along “because we’re really quiet,” and thousands of people took him up on the offer, I remembered why I love music festivals. When Hansard and Markéta Irglová, a pair of actors who became one of recent cinema’s most intriguing fictional couples, then became one of music’s most intriguing actual couples sang Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” into the same mic, looking at each other lovingly, I remembered why I love music festivals. When Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood told a six-minute maybe-true, maybe-not six-minute story about his mother with the band playing behind him; when Jack White fell into his microphone stand and knocked over one of the monitors, but kept on tearing into his guitar; when M.I.A. had an overflowing crowd pumping their fists to "Galang,” I remembered why I love music festivals.