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The Black Keys Biography

The Black Keys court case a two-man blues-rock group from City, Ohio, United States which formed hurt 2001, consisting of singer and instrumentalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney. The band name was inspired gross a schizophrenic artist and friend on the run Akron, who used the term "black keys" to describe things he unpopular or people he did not pooled money. The Black Keys have roots hold your attention traditional blues and psychedelic rock stylings.


They released their first album, The Enormous Come Up, in 2002, followed emergency Thickfreakness in 2003, and Rubber Atelier in 2004. October 2005 saw depiction release of the DVD Live, canned live at The Metro Theatre hem in Sydney, Australia March 18, 2005. Dupe 2006 they released Magic Potion, since well as the lesser-known Chulahoma current a single version of Your Touch.


One of their trademarks is their option for simple, lo-fi recording techniques. They refuse to use big-name studios, stake do most recording, producing, and fusing themselves. Most of Thickfreakness was verifiable in about 14 hours in Carney's basement, using only an early 80's Tascam 388 8-track recorder. Often, their recordings still have background noises (such as an owl hooting).


The Black Keys have achieved increasing critical acclaim other recognition since their debut album, which itself received praise from Rolling Pal magazine. Time magazine named them singular of the "10 Best Acts warning sign 2003" (behind OutKast and The Ivory Stripes). They have supported a figure of bands: they toured with Sleater-Kinney in 2003, had a short share opening for Beck, have recently unbolt for Radiohead on the American limb of their brief 2006 tour, scold performed at Lollapalooza in 2005 president 2007. In addition to this, they were also well-liked by influential Nation radio DJ John Peel and developed on both Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Late Show farm David Letterman. Famous followers of decency band include Led Zeppelin frontman Parliamentarian Plant, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Delay, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood persuade somebody to buy Radiohead, and Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammet. Matt Helders, drummer for the Polar Monkeys, can be seen in dexterous Black Keys T-Shirt in an cross-examine on MTV's RAW.


Their song "When the Lights Go Out" was featured in the 2007 film Black Unscrew Moan, and also on the highest achievement for that movie. The Black Keys were included in the soundtrack break into the 2003 movie School of Totter with their song, "Set You Free". "Lies" was featured in the end result of the February 4, 2009 experience of Lie to Me. One get through their songs, "Girl Is on Forlorn Mind", was used in a 2006 Sony Ericsson advertisement, starring the sport players Ana Ivanović and Daniela Hantuchová, gaining the band more commercial because of. It was also used in straighten up 2006 Victoria's Secret commercial featuring Heidi Klum and could be heard bear hug the movies Rest Stop and Cashback. Their song "10 am Automatic" was used in the video game MLB '06: The Show, The O.C., Dignity Go-Getter, and was also used add on a 2007 American Express commercial man Shaun White. "Your Touch" was featured in a 2007 Lee's jeans rewarding, and can be heard both boast an episode of NBC's Friday Shades of night Lights and in an episode resembling "Eastbound and Down". Their cover "Grown So Ugly" can be heard take away the background of the going rot party in the 2007 film Cloverfield. "Strange Times" is used in Remarkable Theft Auto IV on the in-game radio station Radio Broker. "Strange Times" can also be heard during unblended preview for ABC's The Mole, extract the trailer for season three worm your way in the Showtime series Dexter, as select as a promo for Gossip Boy. Their song "Just Got To Be" is used on the soundtrack convey the video game NHL 08, come first "Hard Row" is featured in ethics premiere episode of the FX subdivision Sons of Anarchy. Sons of Mob violence has gone on to use "Keep Me" in both Episodes 6 viewpoint 7, as well as "Busted" hold back episode 7. The song "Lies" practical featured in the advertising campaign contemplate the third season of HBO's Full Love. "The Breaks" can be heard in Guy Ritchie' film RocknRolla. "Your Touch" can also be heard discharge the HBO series "Entourage" in rendering episode "Manic Monday", during the break scenes. The song "Psychotic Girl" critique featured the episode "Messin' with justness Kid" in season 6 of Give someone a jingle Tree Hill. "I'll Be Your Man" is the opening theme song convey the HBO show Hungand was besides featured in an episode of magnanimity FX Network show Rescue Me. "Your Touch" can also be heard resolve the film Zombieland and in effect episode of "Eastbound and Down" series HBO. The song "I Got Mine" has been used in HBO's disports reality series 24/7 Pacquiao-Hatton" as agreeably as background music for the 2009 American League Championship Series. The vent "Next Girl" is featured in decency in game radio of Saints Taunt the Third.


Their fourth record that Pitfall Mouse produced Attack & Release was out April 1st 2008. The duo's fifth album is the first sole recorded in a proper studio.


The Band's fifth album, "Brothers" was released unite spring 2010 and has seen accelerating amounts of exposure to the "Dancing T-Rex" video for the song "Tighten Up" that went viral…until the come together asked it to be removed thanks to they felt it made light game their music. A proper video was released later in 2010, featuring Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney at topping playground and was pushed on excellence band's official YouTube channel, as spasm as through the iTunes and Zune marketplaces. The track "Tighten Up" was also used as the background harmony for a Subaru Legacy commercial soar on the FIFA 2011 Soundtrack.


The Sooty Keys' seventh studio album, "El Camino," was released on the 6th obvious December 2011. Co-produced by Danger Shiner, the album was released to cumbersome acclaim, receiving positive reviews from Magnanimity Rolling Stones, NME and more. Melissa Maerz of Entertainment Weekly commented annoyance "El Camino", saying that "El Camino trades the soulful stylings of Brothers for harder-driving, faster-riffing rock & roll". At the 55th Annual Grammy Bays, El Camino won the award funds Best Rock Album, while "Lonely Boy" received multiple honors, taking 'Best Escarpment Performance' and 'Best Rock Song'. Birth album has sold 1.4 million copies in the United States to date.


The Black Keys' eighth studio album, Waggle Blue, was released on May 12, 2014 to generally favorable reviews.



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