Much like The Black Keys themselves, the video for El Camino’s second single is pretty simple. Featuring throngs of adoring fans rocking out at lives shows, “Gold On The Ceiling” is classic Keys, a good gateway song for those trying to get hip to the best name in rock. Read the rest of this entry »

West Coast music fans, rejoice. Your favorite Left Coast festival, Coachella, just released the 2012 line-up for its newly expanded two-weekend festival this April. The fest, which will cover the weekends of April 13-15 and April 20-22, features headlining acts Read the rest of this entry »

Chris Brown Will Concentrate On Music, Will Not Do Interviews In 2012 [Billboard]

Azealia Banks Calls Out Kreayshawn [DDot Omen]

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Rock music lost its identity over the past decade somewhere between The White Stripes and Nickelback.

In the past 10 years, bands such as The Strokes, Kings of Leon and The Stripes (not so much Nickelback) have made worthwhile cases. Unfortunately, all have either A.) disbanded and/or B.) strayed from the simple, dirty aesthetics that made them great in the first place. In that decade Akron’s The Black Keys has varied slightly in sound (from modernized Delta blues to experimental Zeppelin-esque R&B) but has remained the only noticeable constant. Read the rest of this entry »

The Black Keys are gearing up for the release of their seventh studio album, El Camino, with a series of television appearances that began with the duo stopping by Saturday Night Live to perform “Lonely Boy” and, if you missed it (like we did), the footage is below. Read the rest of this entry »

Pharoahe Monche once said, “f*ck the white boys because The Black Keys have so much soul,” so it was only a matter of time before the Keys shared some more of that soul with the world. This morning they released “Lonely Boy,” the first single off their upcoming LP, El Camino. There’s not much rhyme nor reason to the video, but the marketing behind the new album has shown little anyways. However, this lack of visual aesthetic places full emphasis on the 330 Boys’ musical project, which is typical Keys: wanton guitar riffs and batty drum kicks. Seven albums in and it’s apparent that they still have plenty of “soul” to spare.

El Camino is Christmas-come-early on December 6. Pre-order it now and get an instant download of “Lonely Boy.”

Well, that was a pretty snappy turnaround. Less than 24 hours after dropping their viral, spoof ad, the Keys decided to break out the El Camino album cover and tracklisting. The album will feature 11 tracks, all featuring production by Danger Mouse and tracked at band member Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Studio in Nashville. Read the rest of this entry »

The Black Keys have enlisted absurdist comedian Bob Odenkirk to help pass the word that you should circle the following date in red: December 6. Keep this early December day in mind, as the Akron, Ohio, boys plan to release their seventh studio album, El Camino, to make sure your holiday seasons are merry, bluesy and bright. Read the rest of this entry »

Proving that the colors that adorn their shirts are the truest shade of blue, the hard-working, Akron duo The Black Keys are wasting little time concocting new material to follow 2010′s Grammy-winning Brothers. Read the rest of this entry »

It might be too easy to pigeonhole The Black Keys’ musical identity as a pair of working-class rockers from Akron, Ohio whose distinct blues-rock flavor distinctly outlines their product. Don’t let the obvious influences of blues-rock luminaries such as Muddy Waters fool the ear. Hip-Hop plays just as important a role in the Keys’ tunes as men like Waters. Read the rest of this entry »

Not only did Wick-It create a wonderful mash-up of Big & Black Keys, he linked with TM to create a video to accompany “Everlasting Shine Blockaz” and it’s equally eclectic as the idea of mixing the music of Big Boi and the Keys. Read the rest of this entry »

Two of the year’s best albums – Big Boi’s Sir Luscious… and The Black Keys’ Brothers – mashed and thrown together? As twisted as the idea sounds, turntabilist Wick-It’s ballsy concoction yields pretty surprising results as Antwan Patton sounds like a lost Keys’ band member. If you’re sketchy, check “You Ain’t The Next DJ” and “Everlasting Shine Blockaz” for reference and then act accordingly. As Big says, it’s “a lil somethin to say Stank you to the music lovers” and we thank him back. Read the rest of this entry »

While LeBron bolted for South Beach this summer, another all-star team was forming in LBJ’s former region: the Rust Belt (and Austin, TX) super squad of Freddie Gibbs, Chuck Inglish, Chip Tha Ripper, Bun B and The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. Uniting with director Dickford Dollas, the six finally produce visuals to Gibbs’ concluding track off his Str8 Killa EP, “Oil Money.” Read the rest of this entry »

It’s funny how accurately a piece of art can hit home with the person enjoying it. This attribute is what makes art such an addictive entity. When a song is easy enough for a listener to relate to, it can cause for self-reflection or be cause for self-realization. Either way, the music takes on a whole new meaning and becomes much more than just notations and lyrics. Read the rest of this entry »

A nice dose of behind the scenes footage from Freddie’s upcoming “Oil Money” video.

Here we finally have some behind the scenes footage from the “Oil Money” video shoot that went down in Austin, TX during SXSW. All emcees were on hand to film the clip Read the rest of this entry »