New Black Keys EP at ITunes

August 27th, 2006 by Hennessy

The tracks available are: Your Touch – from the upcoming album Magic Potion
Strange Desire – from the upcoming album Magic Potion
Thickfreakness – Live in Darwin, Australia

The full length album will be released on Sept. 12 so mark your calendars!

Who the hell are The Black Keys you ask?

They are bluesmen of the first order who’s music grabbed me from the first few tracks I heard still show no signs of letting go. And, really with the state of music today who can you say that about ever, let alone continue to after four albums? Exactly.
Getting to see them when they swing in to Wisconsin will be a highlight of the year without a doubt.

From their bios:

Two young men, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, Akron natives and college dropouts the both of them, are working for a local property owner, the type of guy who owns a variety of low-rent apartment buildings around town in various states of semi-repair and full-blown disrepair. In short, the boys mow lawns for a slumlord. Between them, they’ve got a truck, two lawnmowers and a weed-whacker and, like everybody else, a hustle and a dream: in addition to working together, the guys play in a duo called The Black Keys (named in honor of a schizophrenic Akron artist, who called the boys “black keys”, his phrase for people who weren’t quite right). Though they’ve known each other since they were kids, they’ve only been playing together as a unit for a year. They’d drifted apart in high school (“Most of Dan’s friends wanted to beat me up and I wanted to provoke most of his friends to want to beat me up,” Patrick says), but each was deeply involved in music: Patrick’s tastes leaned toward Devo, noise rock, and hip-hop, while Dan, who had grown up playing old folk songs at family reunions, gravitated towards electric Mississippi blues.