The Black Keys played a MySpace Secret Show last night at Cleveland's Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, the site of their first-ever show six years ago, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer says the Akron-based duo is "white-hot" following the release of Attack & Release, their "lushest" album yet.
The Black Keys played a MySpace Secret Show last night at Cleveland's Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, the site of their first-ever show six years ago, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer's pop music critic, John Soeder, says the Akron-based duo is "white-hot" following the release of Attack & Release, their "lushest" album yet.
The show leads Soeder to wonder rhetorically what the band's secret is, whether Dan's "receiving instructions directly from the ghosts of bluesmen Robert Johnson and Junior Kimbrough" or whether the guys may be "privy to a long-forgotten Mississippi River tributary that flows through the Rubber City, from which our heroes drink every day."
The Black Keys' "soulful" cover of Captain Beefheart's "I'm Glad," elicits the most colorful response from Soeder. "If you weren't there," he writes, "it's safe to commence eating your heart out now." You can hold off on the cardio-cannibalism for one day more: a recent home-studio recording of the song is available on the band's MySpace page for download free until tomorrow.
To read the show review, visit cleveland.com.
