The Black Keys El Camino Nonesuch Rating: Technically, the 20 year-old minivan that graces the cover of El Camino isn’t an actual Camino. It’s a Chrysler Town & Country, a far less sexy car with three doors, seven seats and fifteen embarrassing feet of horizontal wood paneling. The Black Keys made good use of those [...]

If you haven’t read our current cover story on The Black Keys and the making of El Camino, then what are you waiting for? In the meantime, listen to five tracks from the band’s upcoming album (“Lonely Boy,” “Gold On The Ceiling,” “Little Black Submarines,” “Sister,” and “Run Right Back”) here. One thing’s for sure; [...]

(PHOTO: Jo McCaughey) A self-described “studio nerd,” Dan Auerbach owns more vintage gear than his studio can comfortably hold. Even so, he makes good use of it all, playing five different electric guitars on El Camino and keeping every one of his keyboards – from the Mellotron to the Orchestron to the Farfisa organ – [...]

(PHOTO: Jo McCaughey) There was a time when the Black Keys seemed like they might be just another two-member, two-word band from the Midwest. Then came Brothers. On the eve of the album’s release, we missed the chance to put the Akron, Ohio duo on the cover of this magazine. (Alas, we repent.) But, digging [...]

(Photos: Jo McCaughey) Dan Auerbach is driving through Nashville, looking for a place to get coffee on a Wednesday morning. There are diners and coffee shops all the way down 8th Avenue, but he can’t stop talking about Mas Tacos, a small Mexican joint on the other side of town. He’s been going there for [...]

The Black Keys’ new album El Camino will be released December 6 on Nonesuch Records, the band announced yesterday. Their seventh full-length studio effort was produced by Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, The Grey Album) and The Black Keys, and was recorded at guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville. “I think where this [...]