Thread: Black Keys

Listen to them, your life will never be the same

Agreed. And if you don't have the money to buy their records, they have a free live EP available on their myspace page:

www.myspace.com/theblackkeys

yeah mates it's true, when thickfreakness came out it blew my head out...and go to see them live, they bloody rocks!!!

like i theyre from the great town of akron

and go to see them live, they bloody rocks!!!

definitely a great show

Saw these guys at Neumo's in Seattle quite awhile back, after feasting on a few of their records. I hit the venue very early to get some tickets and take a slash in the bathroom. Ran across the drummer, who looked like dog vomit...sunken eyes, smelled like a whiskey distillery. I asked him how he was feeling and he stated that he thought his head was going to explode.

Two hours later, this guy was destroying his set, powering cold ones and playing some of the loudest most badass blues garage rock around. Props for getting it up Black Keys

Headed to Denver. Pretty sure I'm going to give em' an ear if anyone is interested.

http://theblackkeys.com/category/tour/

New Album info:
http://music.ign.com/articles/855/855070p1.html



New Tour info:
http://music.ign.com/articles/855/855349p1.html

I knew there was a new album but didn't know the release date was 4/1- looking forward to that Wiltern show even more now!

Saw them last night at the Ogden and they definitely DID NOT SUCK!! Props to whoever was working the soundboard, cause the quality was excellent!! It was loud, but also very clear.

We got there and the retards were already playing and they kind of sucked, but I wasn't there to see them!

funny, the last few times thru boston they're played the AXIS venue, of course I was there and got a ticket 20 minutes before the show for $15 bucks. Next tour, more and more peeps, now they're playing the Orpheum , bigger Boston venue and I still have connections with ushers so will prob slime in for free. Next year......they'll prob sell out Gillette where the Pats play.
still looking for that EP on myspace. I have some great live bootleg BK stuff.
Best new band in awhile....fuck the white stripes....BK is the real deal and hilarious when interviewed....always.
Rawk !

make it easy for me, how do I get those free EP tunes ? I'm stoooopid drunk

Just scored tickets to the Orpheum show, 3rd row center. Fuckin psyched. Anyone else going?

PSA: On Conan tonight.

Good stuff

Originally Posted by Jackie Treehorn

Just scored tickets to the Orpheum show, 3rd row center. Fuckin psyched. Anyone else going?

found the link to the conan show, it was dan's birfday, too.
http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2008...imes-on-conan/
I'm gonna try to be at the Orpheum sat night.

bonus :
Letterman BKs
http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.a...a-e49fbf0f0134

from NYC 2 nights ago

I was just on the BKs site and found an old review of the first time I saw them here in Boston.
Enjoy !
Black Keys don't miss a pounding beat
By James Parker, Globe Corresponde nt | November 18, 2005

Rare as it is to come across a band in its prime, at the flaming maximum of its powers, there's no mistaking it when it happens: A sense of inevitabili ty, of necessity even, converges with a sense of surprise, and a fierce, ancient gladness. Wednesday night at Avalon, Ohio's Black Keys reminded a packed house what it means to be on. The duo of Patrick Carney (drums) and Dan Auerbach (guitar/vocals) has rewired the blues of the Mississippi Delta with the increased voltage of garagey fuzz-rock, and the intensity with which they drive this risky piece of circuitry has to be seen to be believed.

Visually the Black Keys show is stripped to the bones. Carney's four-piece kit is set up in the foreground, side-on, so that the crowd gets a sweating cross section of him as he works. Auerbach's two Marshall amps, one large, one small, are similarly averted, angled away from the front of the stage -- by the end of the night they have the enigmatic presence of a pair of Copper Age megaliths.

Musically there is a high-temperature melding of the classic and the modern. The stooped and frowning Carney plays like a demon whumping the bottom of his caldron, in the tradition of the heaviest '90s indie bands such as Jesus Lizard and Shellac, while Auerbach, his Telecaster high on his chest, spurts Hendrix-isms or toils through the weird raga grind of bluesman Junior Kimbrough. Together they sound as thick and loose as vintage Cream, if Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker had somehow inhaled equal portions of Jack Bruce: The lack of a bassist, in other words, is not missed.

Auerbach, who for stage patter contents himself with ''Thank you! Thank YOU!" or ''That's Patrick on the drum kit there!," is a fascinating blend of bravado and humility. The rugged plaint of his voice runs along a previously undiscovere d rock-historical fault line that connects Little Feat's Lowell George to Kurt Cobain, while his playing somehow holds the band's sound in a deep-pocketed groove even as it blasts into lead-guitar heaven.

Now on their third album for the legendary Fat Possum label -- home to the toughest, crankiest musicians of the North Mississippi hill country -- Black Keys have tightened and muscled up considerabl y since the ramshackle stylings of their debut, ''The Big Come Up." But the basics haven't changed: the clangor of the guitar, the skeletal drum patterns. A cover of the Beatles' ''She Said" made Lennon's tripped-out lament (''You're making me feel like I've never been born") sound like a backwoods proverb. Count yourself lucky if you were there.

BKs rocked the house tonight.
the crowd was super stoked.
Got a bunch of crappy pics and video and gonna post some on youtube.
It was their last US show before heading to Europa.
Good times and got in on the free tip

Originally Posted by AdironRider

Listen to them, your life will never be the same

on npr today

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=90762303

and in scotland , last night



same song , a few nights earlier , in London

They sound like they'd be great live, but their studio stuff all sounds the same to me. I got bored of them quickly.

saw them sunday evening at Melkweg in Amsterdam:WHAT A BLOOOODY HEAVY SET IT WAS

The guys did rock the place (Melkweg sold out as October 2006), I did roll several green sticks, ROCK&ROLL!!!

Originally Posted by keys&skis

saw them sunday evening at Melkweg in Amsterdam:WHAT A BLOOOODY HEAVY SET IT WAS

The guys did rock the place (Melkweg sold out as October 2006), I did roll several green sticks, ROCK&ROLL!!!

I think I would've had to stop by the Smart Shop on the way to the Melkweg show. There was definately some STRANGE behavior going on before the show here in Boston.
Gotta love the Youtube !

nuther

The Black Keys and My Morning Jacket are headed to Red Rocks this summer. I'm going to get tickets if any one is interested.

Bumbershoot!!