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This week, blues brothers, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of The Black Keys, gussy themselves up for Sunday’s live presentation of The 53^rd Annual Grammy Awards, where The Keys are nominated for four of the night’s trophies including Best Alternative Music Album, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and Best Rock Instrumental Performance, plus, an additional non-musical nod for Best Recording Package.  But on their just released video for “Too Afraid to Love You,” they drop all pomp and circumstance of awards season.

The video for “Too Afraid to Love You,” features the duo recording the track at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where much of their Grammy-nominated album, Brothers, was originally recorded in 2009.  No fuss, no muss, just some genuine blues-tinged rock.

The Black Keys’ Grammy-nominated album, Brothers is available now from Nonesuch Records.

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Two of the best albums of 2010 get the mash-up treatment by Wick-It The Instigator.  The two albums in question are The Black Keys’ Brothers and Big Boi’s Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, which combine to create the slick Big Boi-approved, The Brothers of Chico Dusty; an 8-song mash-up project you can download for FREE!

You can stream the entire project below or download it here via Nah Right.

The Brothers of Chico Dusty (Big Boi vs. The Black Keys) by wick-it

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Photo by Pieter M Van Hattem - Courtesy of Epitaph Records

The Black Keys are serious blues-rock musicians, but in the clip for Tighten Up, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney want to let you know they can be silly as well.  In the video, the duo bring their young sons to the playground for a play date.  When a jungle gym love interest enters the scene, hormones turn friendly competition into a knockdown drag-out brawl. Read the rest of this entry →

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“Palm trees, flat-broke disease, and L.A. has got me on my knees, I am the bluest of blues, everyday a different way to lose,” Dan Auerbach crows on the track, The Go Getter. It could be an excerpt from our personal diary, but the downtrodden Southland musings are off of The Black Keys’ sixth studio album Brothers, which drops tomorrow, May 18^th. The entire record is filled with similar world-weariness that speaks from the heart, and comes from The Black Keys’ duo, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, who have genuinely walked the walk instead of just talking the talk. Read the rest of this entry →

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Photo by Nonesuch Records

Blues-Rock duo, The Black Keys, stream their sixth LP Brothers in its entirety via NPR.org.  The first single from the album is Tighten Up, which features production from Danger Mouse, who previously worked with Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney on 2008’s Attack & Release. Brothers is set to release via Nonesuch Records on May 18^th. Read the rest of this entry →

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