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Artist: Black Keys

Waxed - Record Review from Issue #75 May-June 2008

Black Keys – Attack And Release

When you think about it, the potentially unholy union of Danger Mouse (the producer/auteur/masher-upper behind the Beatles/Jay-Z two-car pileup The Grey Album, and one half of Gnarls Barkley) and Akron’s finest swamp-blues twosome the Black Keys isn’t such a bad idea. The Keys and Danger Mouse are both avid conceptualizers. The duo loves the idea [...]

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The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #65 Sep-Oct 2006

The Black Keys – Modern Primitives

Most days, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney can’t believe how far they’ve come in their half-decade together as the Black Keys. What was once nothing more than two friends banging around in a basement in Akron, Ohio, is now a full-time job that has enabled them to quit mowing lawns for a living and even [...]

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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #54 Nov-Dec 2004

Black Keys – Rubber Factory

The Black Keys are hardly the first white boys to get a bad case of the blues. But whether you’re talking Texas guitar wizard Steve Ray Vaughan, NYC hipster Jon Spencer, or newly minted millionaire Jack White, few white bluesmen have been willing to get as dirty as drummer Patrick Carney and singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach. [...]

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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003

Black Keys – Thickfreakness

Six years ago, drum and bass was going to save the music industry, and we were all going to stay up all night and dance with strangers in Dr. Seuss costumes. Didn’t quite happen. Rock is back, unexpectedly the industry’s latest last great hope. Rock is back, and it only takes a guitar and drums, [...]

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From the Blogs

  • Father's Day: Songs About Dad
    This is the weekend where we examine the impact great fathers have made upon history.  From the Bible, where the landscape is littered with the actions of fathers.  Who could forget the long walk Abraham and his son took in Genesis?  Adam, the first father, raised a fine bunch of stand-up children.  And what about the Big Father himself -- Jesus' daddy […]
  • Album Review: The Human Experience ft. Rising Appalachia - Soul Visions
    The Human Experience, an artist I’ve come to know much about recently, will be releasing a new album on Monday, featuring sisters Leah and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia. The album is called Soul Visions, and, upon listening, truly resonates as the vision of three creative souls collaborating to produce something highly elevated. David Block, the mind behi […]
  • Remembering Rory Gallagher: "The People's Guitarist"
    I've always remembered a great line from a wonderful little film called The Commitments, which tells the story of a ragtag assortment of Dubliners who form a soul band. A character named Jimmy Rabbitte says, "The Irish are the blacks of Europe." To me, that says a lot. Like African Americans, the Irish have lived The Blues for centuries. And i […]
  • Billy Bragg, Union Chapel, Islington (London, UK. 5th June 2013)
    Really, all is need to tellyou is that for the second encore Billy Bragg played the whole of his debut album LIFE’S A RIOT WITH SPY VS SPY for you to understand what an amazing show this was! In thirty years, Bragg has travelled the path from angry young man, to political activist to national treasure and his live performances are among the best you’ll ever […]
  • CD Review : Blake Noble - Underdog
    Australian Blake Noble moved half way round the globe to Seattle just ten months ago and the self professed “Underdog,” found many a kindred spirit to help him release his second solo album. The eight track ,mainly instrumental album draws upon Noble’s unique percussive guitar style that picks up where long lost legend Michael Hedges left off; but don’t be f […]
  • Folk Weirdos: Son of Rogue's Gallery and The Uncluded
    Well it's only June, but I'm going to call it and say that the award for Weirdest/Most Gonzo Roots Music Recording of 2013 will be a tie between the madcap sea chantey compilation Son of Rogue's Gallery and the unprecedented collaboration The Uncluded, which joins the anti-folk of Kimya Dawson with motormouth hip-hop MC Aesop Rock. Here are a […]

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