Notes of a Defeatist

The Black Keys played on NPR’s World Cafe1 about their career path thus far. One exciting thing on the horizon—a collaboration with recent Grammy winning Bluesman Ike Turner2 on their forthcoming album which is being produced by Danger Mouse.



tags technorati : The Black Keys, Blues, music, Ike Turner, Danger Mouse, NPR

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The Chicago Reader speaks with On the Street Doing Life author Anne Keegan about her new book, her column with the Chicago Tribune, and how she’s not “a Gen Xer boring everybody with what I think.”

“I never wrote about myself,” she says. “They [her Tribune editors] may have decided I didn’t write enough silly stuff [...]

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Can’t keep a dead man down—The First annual(?) GoodisCon this weekend in Philadelphia
While I was no fan of Bust, The Hit List interviews crime writer Jason Starr, author of Lights Out and other great novels.

Steve Martin mourns the loss of Iraq’s wild and crazy former dictator. (Huffington Post.com)



If you’re already suffering from post holiday blues, [...]

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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 [...]

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From Pitchfork: Black Keys Talk Signing to Nonesuch, New LP

“When we initially signed to Fat Possum, they were affiliated with Epitaph. Since then it’s just completely changed. We wanted… a label that had better distribution but wouldn’t fuck us up. Nonesuch… I’d say other than Fat Possum, they’re like the most incredible label. They’re a [...]

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Pop Matters has an excellent review of the incredible new Black Keys album, Chulahoma a love letter to Junior Kimbrough.

“Kimbrough, whose idea was simple enough, was a master practitioner of “trance blues”—the art of playing the same chordal progression over and over until it gets into the listener’s pores and oozes out of his/her skin [...]

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Forget the Grammys.

Forget St. Bono and all of U2, their five phonograph shaped statues, rewarded for their most mediocre and undeserving album of their iconic career.

Forget Gwen Stefani, nothing but eye candy without her bandmates, even if someone told her she could be a “solo artist”.

Forget Kelly Clarkson and her mass produced pile of shit [...]

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Pretty much any gift giving occassion, finds a least a few new books for me to consume. When I was about eleven or twelve, armloads of wrapped Stephen King paperbacks through off the balance of having read everything on my bookshelf. Fifteen years later, any chances of catching up on my reading would involve mandatory [...]

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One of my favorite blues musicians, R.L. Burnside died Thursday.

Born in Mississippi in 1926, R.L. spent much of his young adulthood sharcropping. A guitarist, singer, and songwriter, he began playing in the 1950’s. Burnside, learned the guitar from his neighbor Fred McDowell and developed a heavily rhythmic orientated style played with a slide. Up [...]

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