Posted in Interviews, MP3s on Feb 8th, 2010
Before The Black Keys’ new album is released in April 2010, it’s maybe worth looking back at two live snapshots of The Black Keys when they had a live hook up with the studios of 89.9FM KCRW Radio, Southern California’s leading National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate, on the Morning Becomes Eclectic show in 2003 and 2008.
These [...]
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Posted in MP3s, Opinions on Jan 31st, 2010
As The Black Keys have apparently crossed-over to new audiences (or have audiences crossed over to them?) with the Blakroc project, it’s seemingly given fans further licence to mash up tracks.
Do you have a mash up of a Blakroc or The Black Keys’ track? Make contact to be featured here.
Of course, there’s the old favorite [...]
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Posted in Blakroc, MP3s on Jan 26th, 2010
Check out these instrumental versions of some of the Blakroc tracks.
The Black Keys, of course, co-ordinated the musical production during the day while MCs added verse by night
Hearing them in this instrumental mode is how the various MCs would have been introduced to the tracks. Reckon you could have dropped as a good a rhyme [...]
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Posted in MP3s, Opinions on Jan 7th, 2010
The Black Keys ‘Chulahoma’ album of Junior Kimbrough cover songs is regarded by many fans as their finest album. ‘Chulahoma’ was essentially a recording project, a homage to a great influence on Dan Auerbach especially.
The Black Keys never toured the album and rarely, if ever, play any songs from the album live. The Black Keys [...]
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Posted in Blakroc, Interviews, MP3s on Dec 12th, 2009
Check out this recent interview with Pat Carney that covers most aspects of the Blakroc project on DJ Richard Kingsmill’s weekly ‘2009′ new music show .
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The Black Keys Fan Lounge has long covered the interviews on Triple J radio, Australia, featuring The Black Keys. Triple J is a kind of the [...]
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