The Black Keys

The Black Keys
The Black Keys (2011)
General information
Genre (s)	Blues rock , low fidelity , garage rock , indie rock , crossover
Website	www.theblackkeys.com
Current occupation
Guitar , vocals	Dan Auerbach
Drums	Patrick Carney

The Black Keys are a 2001 founded American blues rock - Duo and multiple Grammy award winner.

biography

The Black Keys consist of singer and guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney. The duo are from Akron , Ohio . The name comes from a friend of the band who called people he didn't like or who he said couldn't be trusted as "Black Keys". One connotation of the name "Black Keys" is the English name for the black keys on the piano .

The Black Keys are often compared to the White Stripes , as these were similarly a duo that made lo-fi music and made their breakthrough shortly before the Black Keys.

Great recording technology is not used for the recordings. So far, large studios have been avoided. Recording, production and mixing were done by the two musicians themselves. For example, their second album Thickfreakness was recorded in the basement of Carney's house on a Tascam 388 8 track recorder from the 1980s within 14 hours . The Black Keys therefore have an extremely rough and gruff sound. Background noises are also regularly found on their records. The duo are ostentatiously committed to this simple production technique. In the booklet of the Magic Potion CD, photos of their practice room, a laundry room, are shown.

The guitarist and singer of the band Dan Auerbach, here in Tulsa in April 2012.

Patrick Carney can be found on drums, here in Washington DC in 2014.

The band receives regular critical acclaim for their work; also for her album Brothers from 2010. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Charts . At the 2011 Grammy Awards , it was named Best Alternative Music Album of the Year and Best Recording Package . They won a third Grammy with the song Tighten Up for the best rock performance with singing in a group . They were nominated five times in total.

On December 6, 2011, the album El Camino was released. The first single was Lonely Boy . The album went straight to number 2 on the US charts . "Music to cook crystal meth by" is how Spiegel praised this album. The Black Keys had broken through and their show at Madison Square Garden in New York City sold out in 15 minutes.

In early 2012, the band announced that they wanted to start working on a new album in February of the same year. This should be finished by the end of March. However, Auerbach and Carney wanted to take the summer off after a long tour. The album Turn Blue was released in May 2014 and the album Let's Rock on June 28, 2019 .

Work as a producer and studio musician

Dan Auerbach was involved in numerous albums as a producer and studio musician. As a producer, mixer, singer and guitarist he has worked on albums by Pretenders , Lana Del Rey , Bombino , Ray LaMontagne , Valerie June , Hanni El Khatib , Connie Britton and Nikki Lane, among others . Patrick Carney worked as a label operator (since 2005: Audio Eagle Records) and as a producer - including for the Canadian rock band The Sheepdogs.

Soundtrack contributions and advertising

• Girl Is on My Mind is used by Sony Ericsson in a commercial with tennis players Ana Ivanović and Daniela Hantuchová to promote a mobile phone . The title can also be heard in the movie Cashback as background music for a striptease .
• Set You Free is alluded to in the film School of Rock .
• Gold On The Ceiling is played on the Heroes of the Internet series.
• Strange Times is part of the playlist of the radio station Radio Broker in the computer game GTA IV .
• Your Touch is included in the soundtrack to the film Zombieland and also appears in the soundtrack to the computer game Driver San Francisco .
• Just Got to Be is part of the soundtrack for the NHL 08 console game .
• I'll Be Your Man from the album The Big Come Up is the theme song for the TV series Hung - Far Better .
• I Got Mine from the album Attack & Release appears in the feature film Das A-Team - Der Film (when the A-Team prepares for a mission in Iraq ), as well as the opener in the film Homefront (2013).
• Tighten Up is one of the soundtracks of the soccer simulation FIFA 11 . The song is also featured at the beginning of the film Spring Breakers .
• Howlin 'for You is one of the songs from Limitless ( No Limit ).
• Chop and Change is played in Eclipse - Biss zum Abendrot .
• Hard Row is played in the pilot episode of the Sons of Anarchy series.
• Next Girl is deposited on the guitar video game Rocksmith for learning.
• Lonely Boy from the El Camino album is used in the trailer for the computer game Need for Speed to support The Run . It can also be heard in the trailer of the 2013 film Warm Bodies , in Forza Horizon , and A1 Telekom Austria also used the song for advertising purposes. In 2017 Volkswagen used the title to advertise the new polo .
• The Black Keys are featured on the soundtrack of Dylan's fictional biography I'm Not There (2007) by Todd Haynes with their cover version of Bob Dylan's The Wicked Messenger .
• The Black Keys song Gold on the Ceiling can be heard at the beginning of the film Die agony of choice .
• The intro to Howlin 'for You can be heard in the Netflix commercial .
• Everlasting Light is part of the soundtrack of the computer game NBA 2K15 and Howlin 'for You was heard in the previous game NBA 2K14 .
• Lies can be heard in the third episode of the crime series Lie to Me
• Howlin 'for you can be heard in the pilot of the series Suits (S1E1). In the scene where Harvey hires Mike and he flushes the grass down the toilet.
• Lonely Boy is the theme song of the series Im Knast .
• Goin 'Home can be heard in the film Up in the Air .
• I'm Not The One from the Brothers album can be heard at the beginning of the fourth episode of The Leftovers series .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2002	The big come up	-	-	-	-	-	First published: May 14, 2002
2003	Thick freakness	-	-	-	UK182 (... weeks) UK	-	First published: April 8, 2003
2004	Rubber Factory	-	-	-	UK62 (1 week) UK	US131 (2 weeks) US	First published: September 7, 2004
2006	Magic Potion	-	-	-	UK79 (1 week) UK	US95 (2 weeks) US	First published: September 12, 2006
2008	Attack & Release	-	-	-	UK34 gold (3 weeks)UK	US14th gold (14 weeks)US	First published: April 1, 2008
2010	Brothers	DE95 (1 week) DE	-	CH48 (4 weeks) CH	UK29 gold (25 weeks)UK	US3 × 2 Double platinum (145 weeks)US	First published: May 18, 2010
2011	El Camino	DE27 (13 weeks) DE	AT52 (15 weeks) AT	CH18 (32 weeks) CH	UK6th platinum (81 weeks)UK	US2 × 2 Double platinum (100 weeks)US	First published: December 6, 2011
2014	Turn blue	DE6 (7 weeks) DE	AT5 (6 weeks) AT	CH4 (12 weeks) CH	UK2 gold (18 weeks)UK	US1 gold (31 weeks)US	First published: May 12, 2014
2019	Let's rock	DE7 (5 weeks) DE	AT5 (5 weeks) AT	CH3 (9 weeks) CH	UK3 (5 weeks) UK	US4 (4 weeks) US	First published: June 28, 2019

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2006	Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough	-	-	-	-	US199 (1 week) US	First published: May 2, 2006
2009	Blakroc	-	-	-	-	US176 (1 week) US	First published: November 27, 2009
2010	iTunes session	-	-	-	-	US79 (1 week) US	First published: November 26, 2010
2012	The Tour Rehearsal Tapes	-	-	-	-	US156 (1 week) US	First published: October 9, 2012

Video albums

year	title	Remarks
2004	Thickfreakness in Austin	First published: September 7, 2004
2005	live	First published: October 4, 2005
2006	Austin City Limits Music Festival 2005	First published: June 20, 2006
2008	Live at the Crystal Ballroom	First published: November 18, 2008

more publishments

• 2002: The Big Come Up
• 2003: Thickfreakness
• 2004: The Moan
• 2006: Live in Austin, TX

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2003	Hard Row Thickfreakness	-	-	-	UK86 (1 week) UK	-	First published: May 2003
	Have Love Will Travel Thickfreakness	-	-	-	UK77 (1 week) UK	-	First published: September 2003
2004	10 AM Automatic Rubber Factory	-	-	-	UK66 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 30, 2004
	Till I Get My Way / Girl Is on My Mind Rubber Factory	-	-	-	UK62 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 22, 2004
2010	Tighten Up Brothers	-	-	-	-	US87 platinum (4 weeks)US	First published: May 18, 2010
2011	Lonely Boy El Camino	-	-	-	UK80 gold (8 weeks)UK	US64 platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: October 26, 2011
2012	Gold on the Ceiling El Camino	-	-	-	UK57 silver (6 weeks)UK	US94 platinum (6 weeks)US	First published: February 25, 2012
2014	Fever Turn Blue	-	-	-	UK57 (4 weeks) UK	US77 gold (3 weeks)US	First published: March 24, 2014

More singles with awards

• 2010: Howlin 'For You (UK:silver; US:platinum)
• 2010: Everlasting Light (US:gold)
• 2012: Little Back Submarine (US:gold)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2020: for the album El Camino  Italy 2013: for the album El Camino 2014: for the single Gold on the Ceiling 2014: for the single Fever 2019: for the single Howlin 'for You  Canada 2011: for the single Howlin 'for You 2011: for the single Tighten Up 2012: for the album Attack & Release 2012: for the single Little Black Submarines 2012: for the single Gold on the Ceiling

Platinum record  Australia 2012: for the single Gold on the Ceiling  France 2014: for the album El Camino  Italy 2018: for the single Lonely Boy  Canada 2012: for the single Lonely Boy 2015: for the album Turn Blue 2 × platinum record  Australia 2012: for the album El Camino 3 × platinum record  Australia 2012: for the single Lonely Boy  Canada 2014: for the album El Camino 2019: for the album Brothers

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	-	6 × platinum6th	420,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	10,000	ifpi.dk
France (SNEP)	-	-	platinum1	100,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	4 × gold4th	platinum1	135,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	5 × gold5	8 × platinum8th	840,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	-	5 × gold5	8 × platinum8th	10,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	4 × gold4th	platinum1	1,400,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	19 × gold19th	25 × platinum25th

Awards

• MTV Video Music Award 2010 for " Breakthrough Video "
• Grammy Award 2011 for "Best Alternative Music Album" ( Brothers )
• Grammy Award 2011 for "Best Recording Package" ( Brothers )
• Grammy Award 2011 for "Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" ( Tighten Up )
• Grammy Award 2013 for "Best Rock Song" ( Lonely Boy )
• Grammy Award 2013 for "Best Rock Performance" ( Lonely Boy )
• Grammy Award 2013 for "Best Rock Album" ( El Camino )
• BRIT Award 2013 for "International Group"

Dan Auerbach

• Grammy Award 2013 for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Listened to: The most important CDs of the week - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Retrieved August 8, 2020 . 
2. ↑ EA Trax Game Music ( Memento from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ The A-Team (2010) - IMDb. Retrieved June 14, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

• Official website
• The Black Keys at laut.de