Ryan Gosling formed a band called Dead Man's Bones with the boyfriend of Rachel McAdams' younger sister.
DMB (heh) recently recorded songs in Tel Aviv.
On their MySpace page, you can listen to one that reminds commenters of:
"Modest Mouse"
"tom waits"
"early tom waits"
"a cross between the violent femmes and deadboy and the elephantmen"
"a bunch of rowdy skeletons boogying down"