The Black Keys
Rock / Blues / Garage Akron, OH |
Billboard
Akron, Ohio, July 2002: Two young men, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, Akron natives and college dropouts the both of them, are working for a local property owner, the type of guy who owns a variety of low-rent apartment buildings around town in various states of semi-repair and full-blown disrepair. In short, the boys mow lawns for a slumlord. Between them, they've got a truck, two lawnmowers and a weed-whacker and, like everybody else, a hustle and a dream: in addition to working together, the guys play in a duo called The Black Keys (named in honor of a schizophrenic Akron artist, who called the boys "black keys", his phrase for people who weren't quite right). Though they've known each other since they were kids, they've only been playing together as a unit for a year. They'd drifted apart in high school ("Most of Dan's friends wanted to beat me up and I wanted to provoke most of his friends to want to beat me up," Patrick says), but each was deeply involved in music: Patrick's tastes leaned toward Devo, noise rock, and hip-hop, while Dan, who had grown up playing old folk songs at family reunions, gravitated towards electric Mississippi blues. Continue Reading...
"Just Got To Be" Music Video
"Your Touch" Music Video
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Sounds like Neil Young playing the soundtrack of the movie Dead Man. I couldn't imagine a band without an unshakeble bass player, but you did it! Rock on!
posted Jun 8
"If it doesn't feel cool, it's not cool." You guys are the epitome of cool. But, since you're cool, I'm sure you already know this.
posted May 14
magic
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posted Mar 5
Hello, have a look to the photos from our last concert at l'archipel Paris, Feb 2008
posted Mar 5
Cheers for the add. 'Countdown' is one my top ten tunes that demands I get upand dance.
posted Jan 18
Like the energy! Very nice! Check out "Balm"
posted Jan 1
Hi! Thanks for adding me :) Now that we are friends on Virb.com I'm really looking forward to getting to know you better as a person, and maybe even getting together for a tea party or a game of spoons. Anyway, if you get the chance to check out my music that would be a cool thing. Tootle pip!
posted Dec 2
Wow that was fast. Thanks for the add. You guys are one of the only bands out there who truly knows how music should be played. From the heart and soul man. Keep Rockin!
posted Nov 10
posted Nov 8
Seriously. Coachella '08, seconded. And maybe '09, '10, '11, and '12 too.
posted Oct 21
Come to Coachella again, we miss sweating to you.
posted Sep 22
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