The Black Keys

While The Black Keys and 11 hip-hop artists put together their dream collab album Blakroc, someone was taking video of it all. The footage has been edited to form ten webisodes that were released periodically.

mp3: Blak Roc: “Stay Off The F**kin’ Flowers” featuring Raekwon mp3: Blak Roc: “Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)” featuring Mos Def and Jim Jones You probably heard about this ridiculous collab project: The Black Keys and Damon Dash in the studio with 11, that’s right, ELEVEN different hip-hop artists (legends). You can find the [...]

Drummer features Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney (on bass) along with four others. Thier debut LP is called Feel Good Together, and it’s out September 29th. Listen and/or download their first single: Drummer – “Feel Good Together” [Thanks for hosting, Stereogum]

A bunch of big names are slated to play the second All Points West Music & Arts Festival in New Jersey the last weekend in July. Lineup is below. Tickets go on sale this Friday (4/4) at noon via Ticketmaster. They are $89 for a single day ticket and $199 for a three-day pass. A [...]

After seven albums, the Black Keys guitarist/singer has strayed away from his drummer Patrick Carney (at least for an album) – his solo debut Keep It Hid just came out last week via Nonesuch. If you’ve heard the Keys’ garage/blues-rock, Keep It Hid is more in the same realm. Needless to say, it’s pretty good. [...]

The Black Keys are known for their fuzzy basement blues-rock, and Auerbach’s solo debut Keep It Hid keeps most of that sound intact judging from the two songs we’ve heard from it: “I Want Some More” and the more contemporary “Trouble Weighs A Ton”. In this video for the latter song, Auerbach is accompanied in [...]

After some delay, the lineup for the huge spring Cali festival is up. Tickets are on sale at coachella.com: 3-day passes are $270, 1-day passes are $100.

The Black Keys’ live DVD is out now, and their fifth LP Attack & Release mixes nicely into a set spanning their whole career. Directed and produced by Lance Bangs (R.E.M.’s Road Movie), Live at the Crystal Ballroom was recorded on April 4, 2008 at the historic Portland venue. In addition to the 17-song set [...]