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“I asked if he had anything inspiring – he brought Gregg Allman’s ’66 Guild Starfire. It’s cool that Gregg played a small part on this record”: Marcus King on true love as recovery, being neighbors with Billy Strings and the Tele he bought while drunk

Darling Blue finds Marcus King getting the band together in the studio for the first time since 2018, putting together a little set of songs that did a whole lot of healing

Guitar World

“There’s a reason the music business is considered a slimy hellhole. Be careful who you trust...” The Black Keys are back and they're bruised

Last year, they cancelled a tour, their album flopped and they fired their managers. Can the Black Keys come back?.

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Chrissie Hynde announces duets album with Mark Lanegan, Lucinda Williams, Dave Gahan and more

Listen to Chrisie Hynde's version of Always On My Mind featuring Rufus Wainwright now

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The Black Keys on their music industry nightmare: ‘We were angry. We wanted vengeance’

INTERVIEW: From botched tours to monopolised ticketing and vanishing payouts, The Black Keys are speaking out against a music industry they say is rigged. Ahead of the release of their 13th album, ‘No Rain, No Flowers’, the band speaks to Mark Beaumont about why they’re not backing down

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Black Keys praise Oasis for having 'transformed the continet'

The Black Keys think Oasis have "transformed the continent" with their reunion.

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Album reviews: The Black Keys – No Rain, No Flowers, and Memory of Jane – Unsinking the Cypress

The Black Keys sound surprisingly muted after experiencing one of their most tumultuous periods as a band, while Memory of Jane finds clarity on his delightful debut

The Independent UK

"A surprisingly vibrant, bright-side kind of album": The Black Keys sound euphoric on the dreamy 60s psych-soul sound of No Rain, No Flowers

Beleaguered retro rockers the Black Keys sprout fresh, soulful intent on thirteenth studio album No Rain, No Flowers

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"The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires”: Steve Miller cancels tour due to... the weather

Is the guitarist a secret meterologist?

MusicRadar

Miles Kane is 'open' to a Last Shadow Puppets reunion with Alex Turner

Miles Kane says his "door is always open" for a Last Shadow Puppets reunion.

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“My guitar was busted up on the flight – totally destroyed. When I got to Nashville and told Dan Auerbach, he said, ‘Try something new’”: After her beloved Gibson was ruined on a flight, Valerie June found new inspiration in this iconic acoustic brand

She was in the market for a new guitar following her beloved Clyde's demise – and, thanks to the Black Keys' guitarist and vocalist, she managed to find her perfect match

Guitar World

“Most celebrities are dullards. I met a lot of these clowns and you assume they’re smart. They are not!” Why the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde is one of the last rock stars unafraid of saying what’s on her mind

In 2016, the Pretenders released their 10th album, Alone - but Chrissie Hynde was showing no sign of playing the game

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"We wanted to go straight to the source – into the room with people known for their songwriting": The Black Keys detail new album No Rain, No Flowers

Listen to the title track of the Black Keys' upcoming album now

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“The original Jordan Boss Tone was probably used by four out of five garage bands in the late ’60s”: Unpacking the gnarly magic of the Jordan Boss Tone – an actual guitar plug-in that delivers Dan Auerbach-approved fuzz

It looks like an adaptor and it kind of is. But this cult fuzz box was a favorite of Norman Greenbaum and Spirit’s Randy California and was on more garage rock records than we’d care to imagine

Guitar World

"It was pretty shocking to understand what's actually going on": The Black Keys slam "mind-blowing" state of music industry in first interview since tour debacle

The Black Keys have released The Night Before, their first new song since cancelling their 2024 tour and firing their management company

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The Black Keys announce US tour months after scrapping entire North America run

The Black Keys cancelled their North American tour last year.

Guitar World

“Like Gretsch’s Duo Jet, it was surely spurred by Gibson’s success with the Les Paul”: The mysterious history of the Guild M-75 Aristocrat, the blue-blooded hollowbody played by John Lee Hooker, John Mayer, St. Vincent and Dan Auerbach

This evocative downsized archtop appeared in mid-’50s New York and would go on to delight jazz players and rootsy bluesers alike

Guitar World

Dan Auerbach is one of Ohio’s greatest guitar players, bringing blues roots to the mainstream with a major-league soloing and riffing style

This video lesson unpacks Auerbach’s rhythm and lead approaches – and mastering it could put gold on your ceiling

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"If you're a band that ascends quickly into huge shows, you don't have the perspective to be freaked out by it": The Black Keys look back on platinum sales, Grammy awards, burnout and reignition

As pack leaders of the post-millennial alt.blues scene – until fame turned their hair grey – The Black Keys have rediscovered their mojo on twelfth album Ohio Players

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“Some of my first gigs were before I had a driving licence, so I had to walk a mile or two to get to shows”: With the help of Dan Auerbach, Nat Myers is making rootsy blues guitar relevant again – and keeping the one-man ramblin’ band tradition alive

Nat Myers’ debut album, Yellow Peril, was produced by the Black Keys frontman – and it’s a modern-day classic of its genre

Guitar World

“I played one chord on that guitar and bought it right away”: How Hermanos Gutiérrez leveraged vintage guitar tones and Dan Auerbach's guitar tech to create a cosmic sonic palette on Barrio Hustle

Barrio Hustle is taken from the guitar duo's upcoming album Sonido Cósmico – and premiered exclusively on Guitar World

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“If you stand outside of the zeitgeist and try to get people gassed up on the guitar, it doesn’t really work. We should be taking the guitar to the public”: Marcus King on mental health, recovery, and the timeless style of vintage guitars

Mood Swings is the sound of Marcus King rebounding from dark days with a record of hope and truth. Produced by Rick Rubin, it's an early career masterpiece. He tells us all how it came together

Evening Standard

The Black Keys live at O2 Academy Brixton review: the rock duo prove they're full of fresh ideas

The Ohio band also surprised the newly-reopened South London venue with a guest appearance from Noel Gallagher

Guitar World

“You have to have your own sound, do it with authority and let it all hang out… If you do that you communicate with your guitar”: Duane Eddy reflects on his signature sound, hanging with Elvis and the story behind his go-to Gretsch

In this 2018 interview, available online for the first time, Eddy discusses the lessons learned as one of the founders of rock ‘n’ roll guitar

The Guardian - UK

Duane Eddy’s twang remains one of rock’n’roll’s greatest sounds

The late guitarist was rightly ubiquitous in the late 1950s thanks to his otherworldly sound, earning admirers from Bruce Springsteen to John Peel

MusicRadar

“It was just playing with Johnny once again, and that’s what it was. That was the energy of the creation”: New Johnny Cash album of unreleased songs has been announced, first single Well Alright streaming now

Songwriter is out 28 June and features songs the Man In Black first tracked in '93, produced and restored by son John Carter Cash and David “Fergie” Ferguson in the company of an all-star band

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