The Black Keys

See them here.

Listen here.

Dan Auerbach paid tribute to the multi-instrumentalist who was also a former member of the Arcs and the Shins.

Dan Auerbach is continuing to be productive while the Black Keys are taking a break.

Two years after their trippy 2008 album with Danger Mouse, the Black Keys went back to basics and released their self-produced, blues-fueled breakthrough.

It's about a record label owner who makes a long journey and encounters a pair of musicians who play "a raucous brand of doom-laden country blues."

Times were tough, livin' in the Great Recession, but according to Billboard, these were the alternative songs helping us get by on November 19, 2010.

Nick Alexander worked with several bands on the road, and many of those artists have paid touching tributes to the late merch manager.

“I’ve woken up feeling very out of sorts,” Auerbach said. “Why the hell did it happen there and not where we were playing?”

I put a bunch of words in a bowl, mixed 'em up, and picked one at random to make you a power-through-your-Monday playlist. This week: 'PILL.'

This week's dustup between Jack White and Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney is just the latest shot fired in a long line of actual battles of the bands.

The Black Keys have released the second single, title track and track listing for 'Turn Blue.'