Posted in News on Jan 26th, 2012
Triple J radio in Australia conducts an annual listener poll, the Hottest 100, that attracts 1.3 million votes. It is one of the largest music polls in the world. The vote covers songs released in the previous calendar year. The results for the 2011 poll have just been announced. Lonely Boy was voted the number [...]
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Posted in Opinions on Jan 19th, 2012
Update: Mystery solved. See this MTV article for details. ************* It’s now been more than a month since The Black Keys’ released their new album, El Camino. While everything about the release was relatively self-explanatory, one big unknown remains. What was the point of this so-called ‘Masked’ video? The video shows Dan and Pat having [...]
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Posted in Interviews on Jan 11th, 2012
Tchad Blake has mixed The Black Keys’ last three records – El Camino, Brothers and Blakroc. Although he hasn’t had the press of fellow Black Keys’ collaborator Danger Mouse, his perceptive ear has ensured the best possible finished sound for all these records. His mixes have tied disparate expectations and sounds together to create a [...]
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