With his Black Keys bandmate Patrick Carney, Auerbach has recorded five critically acclaimed full-length albums, beginning with 2002’s The Big Come Up. In 2008, Attack & Release debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at 14, marking The Black Keys’ highest position to date. The New York Times called it a “savage, bitter concoction built on a snarling punk-rock riff,” while the Los Angeles Times called it “without doubt the Keys’ most dynamic effort yet.” Auerbach also has been busy with his own record label, Polymer Sounds, for which he produced the 2008 debut from Jessica Lea Mayfield, With Blasphemy, So Heartfelt; Pitchfork praised Mayfield’s album as “fascinating and endlessly listenable.”
Dan Auerbach & The Fast Five kick off their European tour, this Tuesday, May 12th at Club Academy in Manchester, UK
Dan Auerbach & The Fast Five have been added to this year’s Lollapalooza Festival, taking place August 7th – 9th in Chicago, IL
Click here for the full lineup
NPR's Fresh Air, March 25, 2009
"He's created not a Black Keys film noir, but his own kind of film — a melodrama with mellow humor, a mood piece about a hero who feels most comfortable delivering monologues in the dark, sitting on the side of a motel bed, looking out at a cold parking lot and a warm, full moon"
By Ken Tucker Click to read/listen to the whole review
Keep It Hid lands at 2 on KCRW’s Top 50 chart for the week of 3/23/09
The Boston Globe, March, 4, 2009
"The sold-out crowd certainly got what it came to hear: 90 minutes of blissfully loud, fiercely focused rock 'n' roll with heart and soul"
By Jonathan Perry Click to read the whole review
New York Times, March, 2, 2009
" I can hear Neil Young in there, and I can hear Tom Waits in there. The blues are always present, but it feels like a songwriter’s record"
Nic Harcourt
"Keep It Hid often sounds as if sprung from a psychedelic vault...But the album doesn’t quite feel retro or especially arcane...The tone of the songs is dark...but their effect is rousing"
Nate Chinnen/New York Times Click to read the whole article
Due to a death in the family, Bob Cesare won't be hitting the road with Dan, instead being replaced by the thunder that is Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket. They're holed up at Akron Analog Studio to rehearse before their first show this Saturday (2/28) at The 9:30 Club in DC
Keep It Hid moves up to 4 on this week’s CMJ top 200 chart
The Village Voice, February, 24, 2009
"Dan Auerbach, the singing and guitaring Black Key, never needs a band with his main gig. But the breadth of his solo joint Keep It Hid, with its blues-psych syrup brewed from intuitive touches of analog fuzz, parlor organ, and other voices supporting his own hardwood Midwestern keen, further establishes Auerbach as a dude with the vision to reach beyond the boundaries of a blues rock duo and Bonnaroo beard. Frailties are in play, as are demons, destruction, and the blood of his Akron, Ohio home. Get drenched"
By Johnny Loftus
Keep It Hid debuts with the greatest sales percentage of vinyl since the release of Radiohead’s In Rainbows
Keep It Hid debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Album chart!
San Francisco Chronicle, February, 13, 2009
"Auerbach has made a deeply personal piece that goes into dusty corners never explored by the Keys...he is a master at creating surprising, shadowy textures with reverb and repeated riffs"
By Joel Selvin Click to read the whole review
Paste, February, 11, 2009
Rating: 85 out of 100
"He’s a gifted songwriter, and his experience behind the microphone lends a melodic anchor to his guitar riffs, which blister and burn but rarely muddle their hooks in waves of amplified skuzz"
By Andrew Leahey Click to read the whole review
Pop Matters, February 2009
Rating: 9 out of 10
"Keep It Hid offers further evidence that the music Dan Auerbach has so obviously, and voraciously, absorbed makes him who he is, pure and simple"
By Sean Murphy Click to read the whole review
THE GUARDIAN, February 4, 2009
"He has the ability to unleash passion and anger through his playing, creating a rock'n'roll aesthetic that is defined not by its purity, but rather the soulfulness and essential fun of pure, drone-heavy electric blues” - By Alan McGee (founder of Creation Records, who managed The Jesus and Mary Chain, and helped mold the careers of My Bloody Valentine & Teenage Fanclub) Click to read the whole article
UNCUT, March 2009
****, four stars
This is heavy rock with it's roots still evident: shades of gospel and soul, even bluegrass...It's redemption, heaven, and rebirth, though not necessarily in that order.
By Alistair McKay Click to read the whole review
MOJO, March 2009
****, four stars
"And although it heads off in all directions, from country to musique concrete, it's atmosphere - brooding, close - that holds it all together."
By Will Hodgkinson Click to read the whole review
Q Magazine, March 2009
****, four stars
"Accompanied by a rhythmic thump, these slow-rolling tales of bad moons, black dogs and night fevers achieve a natural-born boogie."
By Paul Moody
BILLBOARD Magazine
"Solo, with soul: The year of the Ox is already shaping up to be the year of Dan Auerbach"
By Lavina Jones Wright Click to read the whole review
DAN! I got addicetd to "Keep it Hid". I CAN'T go on living without seeing you LIVE. Please come to Europe! You're the new GOD OF ROCK, I swear ;-) Thanx for doing such an amazing kind of music. It's the BEST I've heard for YEARS! Hugs&Kisses Silke (Germany)
hey dan, where do i find our european tour dates????? can't wait to see you live. your and the black keys music is the coolest stuff i've heard for years!!!!!! i'm listening to the albums on repeat, told everybody i know and ordered shirts already.this is crazy ;-)))) love xxx silke
Just checking the tour and it says august 8 at schubas in Austin. Is this correct? I checked schubas website and it says its happening in chicago. I dont know, is there a schubas in Austin? Anyways cant wait to see yall in october for acl. Love the music. if there is some chance in hell that there is a schubas in austin let me know.
“Malas Temporadas” es el título del nuevo trabajo de Defectos Comunes, editado con el sello Producciones Malditas.
A lo largo de los diez temas que conforman el álbum advertimos un sonido cercano al postcore, salpicado de otras influencias más punk o incluso metal, donde el desencanto y el pesimismo de las letras se combinan con la contundencia vocal e instrumental, pero sin dejar de lado momentos más melódicos: influencias como Nuevenoventaicinco o Berri Txarrak así lo atestiguan. Grabado los últimos días de 2008 de la mano de César Alberdi en un rincón del norte donde la reconversión industrial aún forma parte del paisaje, hallando en él viviendas abandonadas, cementerios de maquinaria obsoleta, polución y una población un tanto retraída, lo que sumado al frío y la lluvia imperantes aquellos días no hicieron sino agudizar la naturaleza de los temas que conforman el disco. Potencia y amargura destilan a partes iguales los diez cortes del cd a lo largo de su escasa media hora, donde Defectos Comunes ofrecen su visión de lo que les rodea, un mundo oxidado y enloquecido, sin escrúpulos y con un futuro poco esperanzador.
La decadencia, la estupidez, el sufrimiento, la injusticia, la incertidumbre, la melancolía, el error, la soledad...Malas Temporadas.
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