The Black Keys' album Brothers has landed at No. 2 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the Best Albums of 2010. "The duo boil it down on their best record yet: vivid tunes stripped bare and rubbed raw, with hot splashes of color and hooks popping through like compound fractures," raves Rolling Stone. "It's rock minimalism pushed to the max." The magazine also places the album track "Everlasting Light" at No. 11 on the list of the Best Singles of 2010.
The Black Keys' album Brothers has landed at No. 2 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the Best Albums of 2010, just one spot from Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The magazine also places the album track "Everlasting Light" at No. 11 on the list of the Best Singles of 2010.
"The duo boil it down on their best record yet: vivid tunes stripped bare and rubbed raw, with hot splashes of color and hooks popping through like compound fractures," raves Rolling Stone. "'Howlin' for You' smears gnarly blues over a glam beat cribbed from Gary Glitter's 'Rock and Roll Part 2,' while a cover of Jerry Butler's broken-hearted hit 'Never Give You Up' takes Dan Auerbach's falsetto-flashing soulman persona to the next level. It's rock minimalism pushed to the max." Read the complete list at rollingstone.com.
In placing "Everlasting Light" on its list of Best Singles of the Year, Rolling Stone says: "A steady-grooving blues-rock ballad, with Dan Auerbach's falsetto floating over craggy funk like some beautiful ghost." That list can also be found at rollingstone.com.
The news follows the band's recent racking up of six Grammy nominations for Brothers for Best Alternative Music Album; Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance for the album track "Tighten Up"; Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "Black Mud"; Best Recording Package; and Producer of the Year for Danger Mouse, who produced "Tighten Up."
Brothers recently landed at the No. 5 spot on MOJO's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2010, and the video for "Tighten Up" made Paste magazine's list of the 25 Best Music Videos of 2010, coming in at No. 17. "Sometimes great music videos tell a story. Sometimes they make you chuckle," says Paste. "This one does both."
The band performs a sold-out show with Sleigh Bells tonight at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon, the site of The Black Keys 2008 concert DVD Live at the Crystal Ballroom. Tonight's show is a part of the December to Remember series to benefit the Portland Police Sunshine Division, a non-profit emergency food relief organization. Tomorrow night, The Black Keys share a bill with Broken Bells, featuring Danger Mouse, for the Deck the Hall Ball at Seattle's WaMu Theater. For more tour information, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
To pick up a copy of Brothers on CD or vinyl or the Live at the Crystal Ballroom DVD, head to the Nonesuch Store, where all are now 33% off the standard retail price as part of the store's 3rd anniversary sale.
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