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The Black Keys are a blues-rock duo consisting of Dan Auerbach (vocals and guitar) and Patrick Carney (drums and percussion) from Akron, Ohio. This is a serious amount of noise for just two people. What is really amazing is that they are amazing.

Head over to their MySpace site at www.myspace.com/theblackkeys click on “Strange Times” and turn up the volume. The music is a mix of crunchy guitars and thundering rhythms.

Friends since they were kids, Auerbach and Carney both dropped out of college and mowed lawns for a living when they first started their band in 2002. They got the name from a schizophrenic artist in Akron who called the two “the black keys,” a phrase he used to describe people who “weren’t quite right.”

I have a couple of their tracks on the MP3 player but what prompted me to write them up today, is a great live recording ofThe Black Keys, in Concert : NPR Music This is a killer bracket, over an hour of full on, intense rock.

Live Concert footage…

Damn these guys are amazing.

Highly Recommended

Websites at www.theblackkeys.com/ and www.myspace.com/theblackkeys
The group is on tour in support of its latest album, Attack and Release. An album produced by Brian Burton also known as Danger Mouse. They will be in Melbourne in June.

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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