Lead track “I Want Some More” off Dan Auerbach’s (The Black Keys) new album Keep It Hid is a grimy, bluesy down-and-dirty love/lust song. Auerbach produced the album by himself in his Akron Analog studio mentioning he wanted a live, organic sound. Nothing was too plotted or planned, just a lot of spontaneity. Keep It Hid drops on February 10, 2009 via Nonesuch Records. Dan will begin a national tour with performances in New York City, Boston, and Washington, DC, with opening acts Those Darlins and Hacienda, the latter also lending support as Auerbach’s backing band.

The Black Keys Live at the Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR was produced and directed by Lance Bangs. This new concert DVD reflects the no-frills genius of the drums-and-guitar duo’s studio sound: It’s a refreshingly straightforward, beautifully rendered, high-definition video document of their April 4, 2008 sold-out gig at Portland, Oregon’s Crystal Ballroom, featuring seventeen songs culled from all five of the pair’s albums. 

DVD Track Listing: 
Same Old Thing 
Girl Is On My Mind 
Set You Free 
Thickfreakness 
Stack Shot Billy 
Busted 
You’re the 0ne 
Remember When 
Your Touch 
Oceans and Stream 
Strange Times 
Psychotic Girl 
10 AM Automatic 
No Trust 
I’ve Got Mine

Encore:
All You Ever Wanted
Till I Get My Way

Nonesuch Records is pleased to announce that singer-songwriter-guitaristDan Auerbach, best known as half of The Black Keys, will release his solo debut, Keep It Hid, on February 10, 2009. Dan will begin a national tour with performances in New York City, Boston, and Washington, DC, with opening acts Those Darlins and Hacienda, the latter also lending support as Auerbach’s backing band.

While working on and touring in support of The Black Keys’ most recent album, Attack & Release (read our feature here), Dan also was writing songs that would become Keep It Hid. “This record is a mixture of things I like to listen to, psychedelia, soul music, country harmonies,” he says.

Keep It Hid was produced and engineered by Auerbach at his studio, Akron Analog, and features him playing a variety of instruments, including drums, guitar, percussion, and keyboards. Many of Dan’s friends and family play on the album, including his uncle James Quine, who contributes vocal harmony and electric guitar on the track “Street Walkin.” Other musicians include fellow Ohioans Jessica Lea Mayfield, who sings on the track “When the Night Comes,” and Bob Cesare, who plays drums on “Whispered Words,” a song originally written by Auerbach’s father. Of the recording process Auerbach states, “I wanted a live, organic sound. Nothing was too plotted or planned, just a lot of spontaneity.” The record was mixed by Auerbach’s good friend Mark Neill at Neill’s Soil of the South studio.

Keep It Hid Track Listing
1.) Trouble Weighs a Ton
2.) I Want Some More
3.) Heartbroken, in Disrepair
4.) Because I Should
5.) Whispered Words
6.) Real Desire
7.) When the Night Comes 
8.) Mean Monsoon
9.) The Prowl
10.) Keep It Hid
11.) My Last Mistake
12.) When I Left the Room
13.) Street Walkin’
14.) Goin’ Home

Dan Auerbach Tour Dates
02/28/09 Sat 9:30 Club Washington, DC 
03/01/09 Sun Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
03/02/09 Mon Music Hall Of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 
03/03/09 Tue Bowery Ballroom New York, NY 
03/05/09 Thu Beachland Ballroom/Tavern Cleveland, OH
03/06/09 Fri Metro Chicago, IL 
03/07/09 Sat First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
03/10/09 Tue Showbox at the Market Seattle, WA
03/11/09 Wed Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR 
03/13/09 Fri Bimbo’s 365 Club San Francisco, CA 
03/14/09 Sat El Rey Theater Los Angeles, CA

The Black Keys, West Akron blues/rock duo and professed lifelong Devo fans, will be the opening act for Devo’s upcoming Duty for the Future benefit concert October 17 at the Akron Civic Theatre.

The concert, a benefit for the Summit County Democratic Party, will be Devo’s first performance in Akron in 30 years.

Additionally, according to Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh, fellow Akronite and Pretenders leader Chrissie Hynde may also make an appearance at the show.

The lineup for this year’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival is insane taking place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Earth, on August 22, 23, & 24, 2008. Tickets are running $225 for a 3 day pass. No Artist has ever played at Golden Gate Park at night before. Radiohead will be the first.

 To Read More on the Festival Click HERE.

If your a lover of music then you probably know a thing or two about the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Classically around since 1931, if walls could talk they’d have an amazing story to tell. From The Beatles to Pink Floyd, many greats laid down their tracks here and now only a select few get invited to do so.

Check out the extraordinary The Black Keys as they performed this past Thursday, July 24 on the Sundance channel. Check the interview clip HERE. As always, expect a stellar performance and a proper interview.

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Source: Grimy Goods

On a given night (or on a given album) he’ll swing through blues, folk, soul, bluegrass, maybe some classic 50s rock, or a punk speedball. He’s a musical omnivore, devouring every popular music sound of the last 70 years, and mixing ‘em all together seamlessly into his own stew. Yet, the one thing that most people notice about Patrick isn’t his ability to copy - it’s his authenticity. Like his heroes, folks like Bobby “Blue” Bland, Eddie Hinton, Doug Sahm, Ray Charles, Patrick somehow manages to blend all of these influences into something all his own.

His CD Every Hour Is A Dollar Gone (June 2007) is the perfect snapshot of Patrick’s evolution. Produced by longtime friend and collaborator Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, the songs hint at the blues-influenced rock of the 70s (”After Awhile,” “Them Shoes”), soul and gospel (”From Orange To Pink,” “Two Or Three”), and even ragtime (”Mom & Dad”), all the while shifting seamlessly in the spaces between these styles, and it’s in these spaces that Patrick’s huge voice and trademark style shine the most.

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