Black Keys

Interviews

Interview (2008)

Akron-based duo the Black Keys have been attracting much acclaim for their garage blues rock. Sarah Mwangi speaks to singer and guitarist Dan Auerbach about their just released fifth album, 'Attack & Release', which has found them recording in a studio for the first time

Live

Shepherds Bush Empire, 27/2/2007

At the Shepherds Bush Empire in London, new writer Sarah Mwangi finds much of American blues duo the Black Keys' passion stolen by their insistent touring schedule

Scala, London, 23/5/2006

The Black Keys, while hardly household names, have been playing increasingly packed houses on both sides of the Atlantic. Anthony Dhanendran watches the Southern blues duo play a powerful set at the London Dcala

Reviews

Attack and Release (2008)

Experimental fifth album from Akron-based garage rock duo Black Keys which fnds them working with synthesisers, banjos and an organ and a producer, Gnarls Barkley's Danger Mouse, all for the first time to mixed results

Strange Times (2008)

Approriately-titled eccentric new single from the formidable Black Keys

Chulahoma (2006)

Blisteringly soulful new mini album from blues traditionalists the Black Keys, which finds them covering six Junior Kimbrough songs

Live

Ottawa RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest

Ottawa, 4/7/2013...7/7/2013

In the first week of Ottawa's annual Bluesfest, Andrew Carver watches performances from acts including the Black Keys, Grand Funk Railroad, Sharon Van Etten, the Joy Formidable and Wu-Tang Clan...

Ottawa Cisco Systems Bluesfest

LeBreton Flats, Ottawa, 8/7/2009...12/7/2009

In the first week of the annual Ottawa Cisco Systems Bluesfest, Andrew Carver watches sets from acts including the Black Keys, Metric, Iron and Wine, Okkervil River, Lightning Malcolm and Cedric Burnside and the Church

Tapes 'n' Tapes

Kings College, London, 8/11/2006

Minneapolis band Tapes 'n' Tapes have drawn frequent comparisions with the the Arcade Fire, but Anthony Dhanendran finds their rowdy blues-influenced sound has more in common with the Black Keys in an impressive show at London's King College

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Barrymore's, Ottawa, 18/11/2005

At Barrymore's in Ottawa, Andrew Carver enjoys energetic performances the Black Keys, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Golden Famile, but it is sexagenarian Detroit soul singer Nathaniel Mayer who steals the show