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5 unusual facts about The Black Keys


'Till I Get My Way/Girl Is on My Mind

"'Till I Get My Way"/"Girl Is on My Mind" is a double A-side single by American rock band The Black Keys.

Little Black Submarines

"Little Black Submarines" is a song by American rock band The Black Keys.

New Normal Music

Some representative bands featured on the station include The Arcade Fire, Fitz and the Tantrums, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Of Montreal and The Black Keys.

Univox Super-Fuzz

Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys uses the Ibanez Standard Fuzz, a nearly identical circuit in an altered housing.

Waiting for the End

After spending 15 weeks on the Alternative Songs chart, it replaced "Tighten Up" by The Black Keys at number 1, giving the band their tenth number 1 song on the chart.


Artrocker

They were the first promoters to bring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Black Keys to the UK and the first to put on concerts in London by The Datsuns, Maxïmo Park, and The Futureheads.

BottleRock Napa Valley

The event featured 3 stages with 60 bands, including Jackson Browne, Train, The Black Crowes, Zac Brown Band, The Shins, Primus, The Avett Brothers, Joan Jett, Cake, Jane's Addiction, The Flaming Lips, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Alabama Shakes, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite.

Catalpa Festival

Headlining artists for Catalpa's inaugural year were The Black Keys, Snoop Dogg performing Doggystyle, TV on the Radio, Umphrey's McGee, Girl Talk, Matt & Kim, Cold War Kids, ASAP Rocky, Matisyahu and Hercules and Love Affair.

Cooperative Music

Through their partner labels Cooperative music work with artists like Phoenix, Bloc Party, The Knife, Fleet Foxes, iamamiwhoami, Citizens!, Interpol, The Black Keys and Mumford & Sons.

Fly by Night Club

National and international performers have included Boy & Bear, Gotye, The Cat Empire, Paul Dempsey, Grizzly Bear and The Black Keys.

HotChaCha

Batkovic had a minor role in the music video for the 2006 single, "Your Touch" by The Black Keys.

Howard Drossin

He has worked on albums and musical projects with a wide variety of artists such as Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Rod Stewart, The Black Keys, Beyoncé Knowles, Wiz Khalifa, and Paul Oakenfold.

Jack and White

The EP included covers of The Mamas & the Papas "California Dreamin'", Electric Light Orchestra's "Telephone Line", Eurythmics' "Here Comes the Rain Again", Third Eye Blind's "How's It Going to Be", Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" and The Black Keys "Tighten Up".

KVRX

Notable past artists that have performed on "Local Live" to later gain greater recognition include The Black Keys, Spoon, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Death Cab For Cutie, Ratatat, Shearwater, Kinky Friedman, Acid Mothers Temple, and Daniel Johnston.

Marike Jager

‘Here comes the night’ was mixed by multiple Grammy Award winner Tchad Blake, an idiosyncratic producer who has worked with such artists as The Black Keys, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Suzanne Vega.

Nathaniel Mayer

Mayer's last sessions were released across two albums, 2007's Why Don't You Give It To Me? and 2009's Why Won't You Let Me Black?, both on Alive Records and featuring Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Matthew Smith of Outrageous Cherry, Troy Gregory of The Dirtbombs, and Dave Shettler of SSM and The Sights.

New blues

New blues is a name given to blues music by artists such as The White Stripes, John Mayer Trio, Seasick Steve, NuBlues, Stephen Dale Petit, and The Black Keys, who are ushering the blues into the 21st century.

Nick Movshon

Movshon has played with groups such as Brooklyn art-rockers TV on the Radio, the blues-rock duo The Black Keys, Afrobeat ensemble Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, hip-hop group The Wu Tang Clan, soul singer Charles Bradley, mixed-soul group Menahan Street Band, and soul-funk group Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

Nicole Wray

Still maintaining her work relationship with Damon Dash, Wray joined The Black Keys rock/hip-hop collective Blakroc, and was a major vocal contributor to the group's self-titled November 2009 debut.

Patrick Sweany

Sweany toured extensively throughout the U.S. in support of this release, both headlining and supporting artists such as Sonny Landreth, The Black Keys, Los Straitjackets, The Gourds and Paul Thorn.


see also

Crystal Ballroom

Live at the Crystal Ballroom is a live DVD by The Black Keys, filmed in the Portland, Oregon Crystal Ballroom