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The Black Keys
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Sometimes all you need to make a great rock record are rail-jumping riffs, a steam-powered rhythm section, and a born-to-be-wild attitude — the kind you can’t fake, the kind that reeks of gasoline and pure grit. Just ask the Black Keys, Akron’s answer to the White Stripes and the sort of scratchy, dusty blues records that line your grandfather’s living room floor. Or as frontman Dan Auerbach once put it, “the groove was king” when the Black Keys first started cranking out four-track recordings in the basement of drummer Patrick Carney. And that’s been the rule ever since, from the blistering, keep-it-simple cuts of The Big Come Up and Thickfreakness to the experimental flourishes of Brothers and Attack & Release, which sound not unlike RZA-produced Hendrix records.