Latest Release
- NOV 15, 2024
- 18 Songs
- El Camino · 2011
- Brothers · 2010
- El Camino · 2011
- Brothers · 2010
- Turn Blue · 2014
- Let's Rock · 2019
- Dropout Boogie · 2022
- Turn Blue · 2014
- El Camino · 2011
- Let's Rock · 2019
Essential Albums
- Keeping the momentum going after their breakthrough Brothers, The Black Keys reunite with Danger Mouse, who produced 2008's Attack and Release. Taking on a co-writing role as well this time, the producer helps Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney stray from their Southern-rock comfort zone. Increasing both the tempos and the hooks, El Camino is a joyous, danceable rock album. Standouts like the infectious, fuzztoned single "Lonely Boy" and the acoustic-into-electric epic "Little Black Submarines" are among the duo's most exciting songs.
- 2019
Artist Playlists
- This Ohio duo blends '70s glam rock and vintage blues.
- Swampy funk, psychedelic folk, and bashed-out Beatles covers.
- Unpack the garage rockers' toolkit.
- A new generation of garage rockers and psychedelic producers.
- Singer-songwriter Dan Auerbach shares his biggest blues influences.
- Listen to the hits performed on their blockbuster tour.
Singles & EPs
Compilations
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.
More To See
About The Black Keys
The Black Keys’ intoxicating brew of blues-powered, psychedelic-tinged grit and grime has helped keep rock ’n’ roll as alive as ever in the 21st century. Raised in Akron, OH, guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney first struck up a high school friendship, bonding over classic soul, Stax Records, and the hip-hop that sampled both. In 2001, they ditched college and began recording scrappy yet muscular lo-fi rock songs using an eight-track tape recorder from Carney’s basement. They were the kind of swampy, soul-satisfying tunes that resonate best in the bowels of dive bars—exactly where the duo 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 “Tighten Up,” the glam-informed “Howlin’ for You," sing-along boogies like “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 blistering riffs. If 2019’s aptly titled Let’s Rock revisits the growling stomp of their early years, then its 2021 follow-up, Delta Kream, serves as a rollicking tribute to the hill country blues tradition that initially inspired the group. Even when The Black Keys team up with genre-hopping chameleon Beck, who co-wrote the bulk of 2024’s Ohio Players, they continue to discover new ways to ground their eclecticism in the raw simplicity that defines all timeless blues and rock music.
- ORIGIN
- Akron, OH, United States
- FORMED
- 2001
- GENRE
- Alternative