The Black Keys
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Interview by Andrew Purcell, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 2011
Messrs. Auerbach and Carney rap about classic American recording studios, working with Danger Mouse, Ike Turner, the Blackroc project with Damon Dash, and their Brothers and Attack & Release albums.
File format: mp3; file size: 45.6mb, interview length: 49' 48" sound quality: ***
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The Black Keys: Attack and Release
Review by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 28 March 2008
IN THE SHADOW cast by the mighty White Stripes, blues-rock often lumbers between despair and excess. ...
Profile and Interview by Alan Light, Relix, January 2010
NEVER BEFORE HAVE THE PURE ELEMENTS OF HIP-HOP AND ROCK BEEN SUCCESSFULLY CATALYZED TO CREATE SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW – UNTIL NOW. BLAKROC, THE CREATION OF ...
The Black Keys: The Ongoing Adventures Of Two Complete Knuckleheads
Interview by Johnny Black, R2/Rock'n'Reel, July 2010
"WE DIDN'T KNOW what the hell we were doing," laughs the Black Keys' frontman Dan Auerbach, in a not entirely successful attempt to sum up ...
The Black Keys: "It's ridiculous to say that we play the blues"
Report and Interview by Andrew Purcell, The Guardian, 9 July 2010
FOR EIGHT MONTHS NOW, since the end of a relationship, the Black Keys drummer Pat Carney has been living in New York's Lower East Side. ...
Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, December 2011
OVER 10 YEARS and seven albums, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have turned their basement blues project into one of America's mightiest bands. ...
The Black Keys "We've put in more hours than anyone
Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 1 December 2011
THE BLACK KEYS' singer/guitarist, Dan Auerbach, surveys his surroundings — a five-star hotel in one of the more salubrious parts of London — and seems ...
Review by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, January 2012
TEN YEARS into the game, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach add funk and soul to their potent blues-rock brew, with triumphant results. ...
The Black Keys: O2 Apollo, Manchester ****
Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 7 February 2012
ONE OF THE great things about pop music is its happy habit of making heroes from the unlikeliest base material. ...
Guitarist Dan Auerbach Discusses Gear, Influences and the Latest Black Keys Album, El Camino
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, March 2012
His Nashville studio is full of sweet vintage gear, but Dan Auerbach isn't just a retro-obsessed guitar hound. The Black Keys guitarist gets his motor ...
How The Black Keys Rose Without Trace
Interview by Graeme Thomson, The Word, March 2012
"There's a lot that goes into being a band aside from the music," say the quiet pair from Ohio. "We pay attention to that stuff." ...
Billy Gibbons and Dan Auerbach
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, October 2012
MISSISSIPPI FRED McDowell's haunted, woody voice sails through the air as the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach nurses a cup of coffee and flips through a ...
When Lightnin' Strikes: Billy Gibbons and Dan Auerbach talk Lightnin' Hopkins
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, October 2012
BILLY GIBBONS AND Dan Auerbach are standing shoulder to shoulder on Easy Eye Studio's checkerboard floor, trading lazy blues licks through a battered old Gibson ...
The Black Keys: Turn Blue (Nonesuch)
Review and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, June 2014
Following the triumph of El Camino, Auerbach, Carney & Danger Mouse roll the dice, play it where it lays. ...
The Black Keys: Royal Farms Arena, Baltimore
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 5 December 2014
GUITARIST DAN AUERBACH sings all the vocals, takes all the solos, and plays the fundamental riffs, so why is drummer Patrick Carney considered an equal ...
see also Richard Swift
see also Dan Auerbach
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