Latest Release
- 5 APR 2024
- 14 Songs
- Ohio Players · 2024
- Ohio Players · 2024
- Ohio Players · 2024
- El Camino · 2011
- Ohio Players · 2024
- Ohio Players · 2024
- Ohio Players · 2024
- Ohio Players · 2024
- Ohio Players · 2024
- Ohio Players · 2024
Essential Albums
Artist Playlists
- The duo's raw blues purism gives way to arena-rock populism.
- Swampy funk, psychedelic folk and bashed-out Beatles covers.
- Unpack the garage rockers' toolkit.
- A new generation of garage rockers and psychedelic producers.
- Listen to the hits performed on their blockbuster tour.
More To Hear
- Playing songs from The Black Keys and their influences.
- Classics, collaborations, and influences of the Akron duo.
- Patrick Carney on Ohio Players and collaborating with intention.
- Conversation around their album 'Dropout Boogie.'
- Patrick Carney discusses "Wild Child" and 'Dropout Boogie.'
- Dan Auerbach shares his personal playlist.
- The duo on “Going Down South" plus a premiere from COURTSHIP.
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About The Black Keys
Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney first struck up a school friendship, bonding over classic soul, Stax Records and the hip-hop that sampled both. In 2001, the duo ditched university and began recording scrappy yet muscular lo-fi rock songs using an eight-track tape from Carney's basement. It was the kind of savage, swampy, soul-exorcising tunes that resonate best in the bowels of dive bars—exactly where they began cutting their teeth. Between The Black Keys' 2002 debut album, The Big Come Up, and 2006's Magic Potion, the pair pushed that sound to its fiercest, fuzziest fringes with minor alt-rock hits like "Set You Free" and "Your Touch". From there, they moved into the comforts of a pro studio and welcomed an outside producer for the first time: the enigmatic Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton injected their throbbing, vintage garage rock with fresh, modern, Moog-lined melodies on 2008's Attack & Release. This expansion of sound inspired them to dig further into their Southern influences—Junior Kimbrough, Robert Johnson and Johnny Burnette to name a few—leading to the aching stomp of 2010's "Tighten Up", sing-along boogies like 2011's "Lonely Boy" and the moody psychedelic grooves swirling through 2014's Turn Blue. Still, The Black Keys have consistently remained true to their rough-and-tumble roots built on Carney's steady, driving rhythms and Auerbach's haunting howls and bluesy, blistering riffs. When they say "Let's Rock"—as their 2019 album boldly declares—believe it.
- ORIGIN
- Akron, OH, United States
- FORMED
- 2001
- GENRE
- Alternative