Anti- Records has signed Dead Man's Bones, a new project from actors Zach Shields and Ryan Gosling. The project began as a soundtrack to a a play about a monster-ghost-love-story. The duo scrapped the stage show when costs because prohibitive but decided to use the songs they had written. The pair chose to play all the instruments on the record, even those they had never touched before.
The band promises "a striking collection of doo-wop songs about werewolves, haunting melodies telling tales of zombies with broken hearts, and children singing the joys and pains of being alive or being dead. "
Check out some music on their myspace page.