The Black Keys : Peaches!

I’m sure you’ve been sitting around waiting for your favorite corporate, Bud Light-sponsored blues rockers The Black Keys to drop a brand new by-the-books blues-infused record. Filled with competent Delta, Country, and boozy Midwest blues rock that will surely pepper your rock radio fumblings on the way to the next Coliseum gun and knife show. […]

The Black Keys : No Rain, No Flowers

Who still listens to the Black Keys? What’s the appeal to their heavily-produced, pop blues smorgasbord at this point? The last, I don’t know, 5 or 6 records have been these flaccid music affairs that were mere fading shadows of what the Ohio-based blues duo used to represent. Listen, I get it that artists can […]

The Black Keys : Ohio Players

The Black Keys are an American music institution. They’ve been making their own brand of Midwest duo delta blues now for just a little over 20 years, starting with 2002s The Big Come Up. The duo of Dan Auerbach(guitar, vocals) and drummer Patrick Carney(drums) started out recording their albums in a basement with concrete walls, […]

The Black Keys : Delta Kream

Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have been at it now for 20 years as The Black Keys. They have been on a steady course from Midwestern underground blues revivalists to indie rock darlings to mainstream, middle-aged rockers soundtracking soccer mom road trips. Regardless of where you’re at on the Keys’ timeline, Auerbach and Carney put […]