The Black Keys unleash their second video off their Gold album El Camino. This video was shot at their New York release party.  I wonder what will go platinum first, El Camino or Brothers?

Chers Penthouse, j’ai été un fervent lecteur de votre magazine depuis de nombreuses années mais je n’ai jamais rien fait qui était vraiment digne de votre colonne, jusqu’à maintenant. J’ai rencontré une dame à la barre. Elle portait des bas, et avait un regard étrange dans les yeux.
Nous avons fait le petit entretien et puis elle m’a demandé de la rejoindre dans les toilettes. Nous sèche-bosse jusqu’à ce que je éjaculé prématurément dans mon pantalon. Nous avons entendu des bruits de l’extérieur de la salle de bain. Rapidement, nous avons ouvert la porte que de tomber dans un flash mob chanter “Lonely Boy” par les Black Keys. – Petite Pierre

Dear Mr. Clapton -

I know that you’ve probably retreated to one of your homes situated in a warmer client. However, if for some reason the warmer-than-usual winter has kept you and your family in Columbus, I’d like to invite you to Ace of Cups on Tuesday night to bear witness to the fuzzy, psychedelic blues sounds of the Iowa (yes, Iowa!) trio Radio Moscow. I know you’ve been seen around town taking in performers that have been influenced by you and I think … no, scratch that, I KNOW that Parker Griggs owes a great deal of gratitude to the likes of you (particularly your work with Cream), Hendrix, and Blue Cheer for inspiring his playing style.

Current Rolling Stone cover boys The Black Keys are also fans of Radio Moscow and BK’s Dan Auerbach signed the band to AliveNaturalsound in 2008 after seeing them perform. If that’s not a ringing endorsement, I don’t know what is.

So, Mr. Clapton, will I see you there on Tuesday night? The show should be over by midnight, so you can get home at a reasonable hour (at least in the world of rock n’ roll where many shows aren’t over until 2am). I bet I can get you on the guest list if you’re so inclined.

-Chip

TK Webb (of Sundown) and EYE open the show. Music starts around 9pm. Tickets are $7 in advance, $10 at the door.

The Black Keys channel Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising on the cover of the January 19 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine which actually hits stands on January 6th.

Here is an excerpt Rolling Stone posted today where the Keys basically tell lames to ‘Watch the Rock N Roll Throne…’.

• Patrick Carney is pretty sure he knows what’s ailing his chosen genre these days. “Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world,” he says, blowing cigarette smoke out the window of his rented East Village loft a few days ­before the band heads to L.A. “So they became OK with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be shit – therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world. Fuck that! Rock & roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don’t like to see it fucking ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit. When people start lumping us into that kind of shit, it’s like, ‘Fuck you,’ honestly.”

Read More on RS’s Website

MP3: Mobb Deep- Conquer

I like Houston rap as much as the next guy. But sometimes a man enjoys Henroc out of a stryofoam cup instead of lean and sprite. Prodigy is home, and he is voting for Ron Paul like some sort of Q-Boro Vince Gallo. While I am not voting for Ron Paul this EP knocks.

29.Clams Casino- Instrumental Mixtape

Lil B is truely a great artist. A producer that makes music for the #basedgod is blessed, and an asset to humanity.

28.Bon Iver-Bon Iver

MP3: Holocene

Bon Iver is the new Thom Yorke/Phill Collins/Bill Clinton. Not bad for a fucking beardo.

27.Mr. Muthafuckin’ Exquire- Lost In Translation

MishkaNYC – Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – Lost In Translation – 01 Triple F -prod. by Charli Brown Beatz-

I had a DJ Three tape I bought one of the first times I went to New York. MF Grimm had this great song about Emotions on it. His team had shoes made of ostrarich. The primary emotion was “fuck you”. This Lost In Translations tape reminds me of that song. More “Razerblade under the tongue” then “Hey, wait Bladerunner is kinda like living in NY.” The dystopia in the music was a product of the experience. Just because you have cancer you don’t have to tell me that radiation comes from machines. Sometimes your suffering, and alcoholism will suffice.
26.Prurient- Bermuda Drain

Until there is a PillowTalk full-lenghth this will do.

25.Big K.R.I.T.-The Return of 4eva

MP3: Dreamin’

B. Rabbit meets Devin The Dude. Who doesn’t love B. Rabbit and Devin the Dude as people?

24.Drake-Take Care

MP3: Drake- Over My Dead Body (Star Slinger Remix)

This is a really good album. I am just really mad at this album because of hearing “She Will” on the radio too many times.
I do not not hold “She Will” against Lil Wayne and it was on the Carter IV not Take Care. For some reason the idea of a sensitive artist reflecting on if a woman will jiggle her butt for him because he is famous creeps me the fuck out. Maybe it’s just makes me realize I am the only person male or female that doesn’t like strip clubs, or how women don’t mind combining money and sex. I bet whomever bought the most Steel Reserve at Occupy Wall Street was a polyamorous crust punk.

“She Will” is not on Take Care, which is a good album. I also like the Carter IV.

23.Envelope-This Could Go Either Way

MP3: Zip Zero ft N.P.

Envelope and Jacoti Sommes set-out to make a stripped-down, raw Hip Hop record inspired by early Wu-Tang’s zig-zag offness and analog warmness. Envelope’s skillset, and taste accidently caused This Could Go Either Way be sorta like if Heems worked with Clams Casino. Plus he is the only rapper from Columbus that was reviewed by Doug Mosurock or would even care to be.

22.Young Jeezy= Thug Motivation 103

This would be my album of the year if it had no R+B on it.

21.Random Axe-Random Axe

Hex Murda

20.The Roots-Undun

Conceptual and Musical album?!. And also think of the classic moments on LNWJFOFWKTA

19.Zola Jesus-Conatus

MP3: Zola Jesus -Hikikomori

People always tune me out when I tell them what my Goth album of the year is at the barber shop.

18.Vile Gash-Deluded

MP3: every day

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17.Unknown Mortal Orchestra

MP3: Ffunny Ffrends

Psychedelic and break heavy.

16.Curren$y-Covert Coup

MP3: Curren$y – Covert Coup – 09 Success Is My Cologne

Good production and flow will always be welcome.

15.Danny Brown & Black Milk- Black & Brown

Every real and active graffiti writer wants to be in Detroit right now.

14.Balam Acab-Wander/Wonder

MP3: Balam Acab- Oh, Why

This album is very soothing, and my enjoyment of it showed me that I was maturing.

13.Fly Union- The Greater Than Club

MP3: Fly Union- “Friends.Women.Money ft. Dom Kennedy”

Polished and smooth summer album.

12.Frank Ocean-Nostalgia, Ultra

MP3: Songs For Women

R. Kelly and Kid Cudi did wonders bringing cusswords and drugs into R+B.  Frank Ocean is the next step in “real talk”.

11.P.Blackk-Blackk Friday

MP3: They Know Me (Ft. Fly Union)

20-Year old Columbus rapper adds depression and disenchantment to being fresh. SWAG.

10.Twin Sister-In Heaven

Sometimes dream-pop. Sometimes R+B.

9.Ice Age- New Brigade

Take Joy Division out of tune and then make a louder Warsaw then you can get away with it.

8.Common- The Dreamer/The Believer

MP3:Common-Sweet

Common linking up with Obama and getting defended by Jon Stewart, and N.O. ID being Kanye’s Mentor gave the Chicago pair the freedom to reunite and make a strong Hip Hop album.

7.Prosanctus Iferi- Red Streams of Flesh

MP3: Prosanctus Inferi -Bent In Genuflexion

Beastial Black Metal from Columbus that is completely straight-forward, and uncompromising in it’s filth.

6.A$ap Rocky- LoveliveA$ap

MP3: ASAP Rocky- Palace (Prod By Clams Casino)

This shit is dope. Can we get Clams Casino to produce the next BONE album?

5.Kendrick Lamar-Section 80

Can we get Kendrick Lamar to produce the next Bone album?

4.Danny Brown-XXX

MP3: Scrap Or Die

Danny Brown said “fuck it I am about to hit 30. I can rock a grime accent and flow that will get me drugs and laid at the party then stop and bring it to some straight Detroit copper-stripping working class crime shit.”

3.Kanye West/Jay-Z-Watch the Throne

Super-refined artistic record that was both absurd and important.

2.The Black Keys-El Camino

Man, I wish I was in 7th grade rocking a jean-jacket and trying to meet a lady with this as my soundtrack.

1.Tyler,the Creator-Goblin

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What..if you frequented this blog then you had to see this coming?! Fear at Saturday Night Live. The Marshall Mathers LP. Waka Flocka Flame. Crass Banned From Roxburry.

But Jazzy.

To be honest, it was quite difficult to decide on 10 full albums I really enjoyed listening to from start to finish. This could be the fault of BBC6 radio, and it’s persistent nature of turning an “OK” song into a real banger after playing it enough. It could also be the fault of so many let downs and gimmicks. Never in a single year have I looked forward to so many albums that panned out to be so disappointingly average. In a market so over saturated by bands trying to “out-cool” one another and being more conscious of what they wear than how well they play, it’s no wonder that some of names keep recurring year after year or that the best single tracks list was so much more enjoyable to assemble.

But this is it, I’ve done it. I’ve decided what 10 albums and 20 tracks have been the most enjoyable, the least pretentious and will hopefully be a memorable depiction of 2011 – five, ten and fifty years from now.

As for ranking, I must digress to the one brutal truth of end of year lists that my good friend Wes pointed out recently. Ranking is, in fact, arbitrary and simply a tool for building suspense in pinning down one’s judgement on any particular topic. So to avoid that (as you may not know who I am nor care about/for my taste in music), I’ve decided to post my lists chronologically. My hope is for you to have a listen to anything you’re not familiar with and ideally find something to enjoy. That’s why you’re here, right?

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake

MP3: Let England Shake

Secret Cities – Strange Hearts

MP3 – Always Friends

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

MP3 – The Shrine / An Argument

Amor De Dias – Street of the Love of Days

MP3: Bunhill Fields

Let’s Wrestle – Nursing Home

Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver

MP3: Holocene

Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer

MP3: I Won’t Fall Apart On You Tonight

Beirut – The Rip Tide

MP3: Santa Fe

Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know

Boddie Recording Company: Cleveland, Ohio – Numero Group Compilation

MP3: Jackie Russell – If You Don’t Want Me Let Me Be

My Top 20 Tracks Of 2011

PJ Harvey – MP3: The Last Living Rose (Let England Shake)

Bill Callahan – MP3: America! (Apocalypse)

Metronomy – MP3: The Look (The English Riviera)

tUnEyArDs – MP3: Bizness (w h o k i l l)

Eleanor Friedberger – MP3: My Mistakes (Last Summer)

Wild Beasts – MP3: Deeper (Smother)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – MP3: How Can You Luv Me (Unknown Mortal Orchestra)

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – MP3: Senator (Mirror Traffic)

Bon Iver – MP3: Towers (Bon Iver, Bon Iver)

Little Dragon – MP3: Ritual Union (Ritual Union)

Laura Marling – MP3: Sophia (A Creature I Don’t Know)

Real Estate – MP3: It’s Real (Days)

The War On Drugs – MP3: Baby Missiles (Slave Ambient)

Race Horses – MP3: Benidorm

Girls – MP3: Honey Bunny (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)

Atlas Sound – MP3: Lightworks (Parallax)

Michael Kiwanuka – MP3: I’m Getting Ready (Tell Me A Tale)

The Black Keys – Video: Lonely Boy (El Camino)

DJ Shadow feat. Little Dragon – MP3: Scale it back (The Less You Know, The Better)

NZCA/Lines – NZCA/LINES – Okinawa Channels

The Black Key’s finished their NYC rounds of El Camino release week with this performance on David Letterman.

In other Black Keys related news:

The Black Keys like Mac Miller, and others have decided to not mess with Spotify, Rhapsody and other streaming music services according to the Los Angeles Times.

After the jump, you can check out the Jaws Skateboard Black Keys Art Director Michael Carney designed for Tony Hawk’s Birdhouse Skateboard Company.

The Black Keys performed Lonely Boy (above) and Gold on the Ceiling (after the jump) last night on Saturday Night Live.  Steve Buscemi was the host.

The Keys will be on the Colbert Report December 6th, and Late Night With David Letterman December 7th.

If you haven’t heard through the buzz in these Ohio skreets,  the Black Keys new record  El Camino drops December 6th.

After the Jump for “Gold on the Ceiling”.

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The Black Keys damn…. Ohio’s Finest headline some big-ass rooms. Including the Schott and Madison Square Garden.
El Camino instores December 6th. The Keys are on Saturday Night Live this Saturday.

North America Tour Dates

3/2/12 Cincinnati, OH U.S. Bank Arena
3/3/12 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
3/4/12 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center
3/6/12 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center
3/7/12 Boston, MA TD Garden
3/9/12 Washington, DC Verizon Center
3/10/12 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
3/12/12 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
3/13/12 Montreal Bell Centre
3/14/12 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
3/16/12 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse
3/18/12 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
3/19/12 Chicago, IL United Center**
3/20/12 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
3/23/12 Norfolk, VA Constant Convocation Center

Fans signed up to the official mailing list will get the first opportunity to buy tickets on 12/6 at 10am local time before public on-sale begins. Ticket sales for the general public will start on 12/9. For more info visit the Black Keys.com.

The Black Keys are celebrating the release of El Camino with an intimate fanclub only invite show at New York City’s Webster Hall on December 5th.  MTV2 will broadcast Road to the Release videos leading up to the show. The Webster Hall Show itself will stream on MTVHIVE.COM as part of their Live In NYC series.

El Camino hits stores December 6th.