Say I Won't is the record of a veteran band finding it's stride, stripping back the excess and finding the raw core of their sound. It comes at a time of change for Barrett, having relocated from New York to his hometown of Oxford during the pandemic.
The BellRays fuse punk, garage and soul on Heavy Steady Go!, with punchy cuts like 'I Fall Down' and 'California'. 180g black vinyl in a gatefold jacket.
Levitation (formerly known as Austin Psych Fest) began as a simple idea in a Black Angels tour van in 2007 - let's invite all our favorite bands and all our friends, for our version of a music festival.
Since forming in Austin in 2004, The Black Angels have become standard-bearers for modern psych-rock that does exactly that, which is one of many reasons why the group's new album, Wilderness of Mirrors, feels so aptly named.
Wilderness of Mirrors hits even more close to home, as the group recorded solely in the friendly confines of Austin for the first time in more than a decade and entrusted co-production duties to it's longtime front-of-house engineer, Brett Orrison.
Until now, guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney of the Black Keys took an extreme do-it-yourself approach to record making, hunkering down in a basement studio or setting up equipment in one of the abandoned factories of their native A
The Black Keys' first album in five years, Let's Rock, is out now on Easy Eye Sound / Nonesuch Records! It's a return to the straightforward rock of the band's early days.
Magic Potion, the Black Keys' fourth album, is a spectacularly stripped-down set of sneakily melodic blues-besotted rock concocted in the Akron, Ohio basement studio of drummer Patrick Carney.
Like corporate drones determined to cut loose every third Friday whether they need to or not, the Black Keys take the time to schedule semi-regular journeys into the unknown.
The album captures a number of first takes that hark back to the stripped-down blues rock of their early days making music together in Akron, Ohio, basements.
Warm, tactile CD from The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers. Eleven tracks including 'The Night Before' and the title track; gatefold softpack CD with fold-out poster for a compact collectable.
Peaches! finds The Black Keys chasing the loose, room-sweat immediacy of a band playing together before anyone can overthink it. Raw, bluesy, and record-crate obsessed, it reconnects the Akron duo’s garage instincts to their grown-up studio muscle.
The Black Keys - Peaches! LP (cream vinyl): 10-track covers LP recorded live with minimal overdubs and mixed by the band. Includes the singles "You Got to Lose" and "Where There's Smoke, There's Fire."
Akron, Ohio has allowed The Black Keys to remain unaffected by the creepy tides of fashion, to develop at their own pace and serendipitously to bloom at a time when genuine soul is in high demand.
The follow up to the widely successful ‘Good Bad Not Evil’, the 2009 album is a perfect amalgam of their high-end live shows and subculture songwriting, meshed tightly to the Lips’ distinctive howl.
The Black Lips return with their 10th studio effort Apocalypse Love, scorched with their trademark menace, it cryogenically mutates all recognized musical bases.
