The Blues is back and it goes by the name of "The Black Keys"

The duo  rockin' out

Rawness and attitude have been sorely missing amongst current main stream rock. You either get a overly compressed track with some 18 year old kid singing some upbeat song about a girl or a dime a doz, no....check that, Nickelback a dozen rock band playing through some Triple Rectified MESA/Boogie singing an open-ended song in the most poppy way possible.

Thankfully I have found a remedy, however, and its come in the form of "The Black Keys". This band has been around for a little while now, but like always here lately it seems, I am slow to discover them. This Duo, shockingly enough, consists of Dan Auerbach on Vox/Guitar and Patrick Carney on drums as well as a touring bass player and keyboard player.

The band brings back that dirtiness rock was born of, riding bluesy riffs and raspy vocals that if you had never seen the band before, you'd swear was coming out of a older black man singing his blues to the sidewalk rather than a skinny looking white guy. 

Every once and a while it seems like rock gets in this weird socially acceptable distilled down format now posed by bands like Nickelback and Chris Daughtry, and needs a swift kick in the ass to keep its roots from stagnating and fading away. A band like "The Black Key's" shows there is still hope for the genre yet, and maybe all "rock" want turn into a auto-toned pop song compressed until its head explodes. Technology steals the soul of music, and these guys are bringing that soul back.