Subject: The Black Keys

• The Fray grabs top spot at Twist & Shout again

  For the second week in the row, the Fray's new self-titled album grabbed the number one spot on Twist & Shout's top seller list. Elsewhere, it's not too surprising that Robert Plant & Alison Krauss's Raising Sand,which just won a Grammy for Album of the Year, claimed the second spot, followed by the Black Keys's Dan Auerbach, Lily Allen and Bruce Springsteen, who round out this week's top ten. See the full breakdown after the jump.

  February 20, 2009

• Tool, Widespread Panic and the Fray to headline Mile High Music Festival

  Moments ago, the folks at AEG announced the line-up for this year's Mile High Music Festival. This year looks like it's going to be a doozy. Here are just some of the acts that you can look forward to seeing this summer on the two main stages at either end of the park or a number of smaller stages in between: Tool, Widespread Panic, the Fray, Gov't Mule, Incubus, Ben Harper, G Love and Special Sauce, Ani DeFranco, the Black Keys, Paulo Nutini, Gomez, Greyboy Allstars, Railroad Earth, Indie.Arie,

  March 26, 2009

• New Kids on the Block, Boz Scaggs, Loretta Lynn shows announced

  A number of shows were announced this week, including New Kids on the Block (Wednesday, July 15, Fiddler's Green), Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald (Monday, July 6, Paramount Theatre), Loretta Lynn (Wednesday, June 10, Paramount Theatre) and Reggae on the Rocks featuring Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Fishbone, the English Beat, Israel Vibration, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Steel Pulse (Saturday, August 29, Red Rocks). For a complete rundown of the shows going on sale this weekend -- including this

  March 31, 2009

• Jessica Lea Mayfield

  Saturday, February 28, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

  February 26, 2009

• Westword's favorite national albums of the year

  December 25, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 15 edition

  Photo by Eric GruneisenCobra Starship's Gabe Saporta has some issues. I'll try not to make this too taxing. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Fall Out Boy at the Fillmore. • Last Night: Mastodon at the Fox Theatre. • DJ Vajra impresses NAMM crowd with his turntable magic. • Update: Hot IQs calling it a day. • The Denver Boot: Voices Underwater -- 09.29.05. • Guest DJ with DJ MU$A at the Coral Room. • Free Tauntaun show Saturday at Wax Trax for Record Store Day. • Record S

  April 15, 2009

• My Morning Jacket

  Thursday, August 21, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, 303-830-8497.

  August 21, 2008

• Big Business

  Saturday, September 22, Gothic Theatre, 303-830-8497.

  September 20, 2007

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  August 2, 2007

• Priestbird

  Monday, March 19, Marquis Theater, 303-292-0805.

  March 15, 2007

• The Sounds

  These Swedes think their country is becoming too Americanized.

  November 23, 2006

• We Are Wolves

  Friday, October 14, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  October 13, 2005

• Our top DVD picks for the week of October 4.

  October 6, 2005

• Des Ark

  Tuesday, August 23, Rock Island, 303-572-7625.

  August 18, 2005

• Hosty Duo

  Friday, July 1, Bender's Tavern, 303-861-7070.

  June 30, 2005

• Heartless Bastards

  Friday, June 17, Lion's Lair, 303-320-9200.

  June 16, 2005

• Various Artists

  Sunday Nights: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough (Fat Possum)

  December 9, 2004

• Critic's Choice

  Black Keys

  June 12, 2003

• Black Keys

  Thickfreakness (Fat Possum)

  April 24, 2003

• Counting Crows, Rock the Bells and Black Keys shows announced

  Just when we thought the Red Rocks summer line-up couldn't get any hotter, three more shows were just added to the schedule, including Counting Crows and Augustana on Wednesday, July 29, Rock the Bells '09, featuring Nas, Damian Marley, Busta Rhymes and more, on Thursday, August 6, and the Mountainside Mardi Gras Festival on Saturday, August 8, with Dr. John, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk and other heavies from the Crescent City. Also announced this week is a Monday, August

  May 12, 2009

• Okay, Denver, we need to talk.

  I just received a press release from the Salt Lake City Arts Council (cue the Pace picante sauce dudes asking incredulously, "Salt Lake City?!") informing me of their Twilight Concert Series. Evidently, the concerts, which are free and take place every Thursday night at the Gallivan Center in downtown Salt Lake, are among "the best loved concert series in Utah." Not hard to see why. Take a look at the line-up: On July 9, Bon Iver and Jenny Lewis stop by, followed by the Black Keys and Human High

  June 22, 2009

• Crocodiles

  June 25, 2009

• Mile High Music Fest: Who to watch and what to watch out for

  July 16, 2009

• Spin weighs in with must-hear acts at the Mile High Music Festival

  The Duke Spirit made Spin's top five must-hear listLooks like we're not the only ones psyched for this weekend's Mile High Music Festival. This afternoon, the folks at Spin.com weighed in with their top five must-hear bands. As it turns out, their picks mirrored  ours: Tool (natch), Duke Spirit, 3OH!3, Gogol Bordello and the Black Keys. We've got more coverage slated ourselves. Check in tomorrow for more interviews and other musings.

  July 16, 2009

• Mile High Music Fest Live Reviews: Day One

  Aaron Thackeray See photos of Day One's fans on the slideshow page. It's here: The second edition of the Mile High Music Fest is underway, and our gaggle of writers and photogs are shvitzing their way around the grounds to bring you ongoing, as-close-to-live-as-my-fingers-allow coverage of Denver's biggest music festival. Check back throughout the weekend and on Monday, and get 140-character updates on Twitter. Gregory Alan Isakov, 11:15 a.m., Westword Tent Brian Landis Folkins What it was

  July 19, 2009

• Over the Weekend: The Black Keys at The Fox

  Kiernan Maletsky The Black Keys, Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons Friday, July 17 The Fox Better Than:Engine oil under your fingernails, sweat running down your back and your car in good working order once again. Zero frills. A white drum kit with two toms and three cymbals, a bag of extra sticks hanging off the floor tom. A line of three guitar amps, a 100 watt Marshall and two smaller Fenders, spaced evenly and turned a little more than 45 degrees to the left. Water bottles lined discreetly a

  July 20, 2009

• Relive the Mile High Music Fest on YouTube

  Joe Tone If you missed the Mile High Music Fest -- and I did too, thanks to a wedding that was occurring simultaneously -- or if you were there, but were just so trashed your memories are hazy, you can relive it in glorious lo-fi, shaky-cam glory on YouTube. A quick search for "Mile High Music Fest" revealed around fifty videos uploaded today -- most of them of Tool's Saturday performance, especially ironic given their management's steadfast refusal to let us take pictures. There's also a heal

  July 20, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 20 edition

  The Black Keys played the Fox on Friday night. It's all going to pot. Today in The Latest Word: - Live-blogging the medical marijuana hearings. - Mile High Music Festival roundup. - Mile High Murder in Commerce City. - Jared Polis: Not playing nice, standing up for the little big guy. - Ragin' Hummer driver. Today in Backbeat Online: - Over the weekend: The Black Keys at The Fox - Danielle Ate the Sandwich on the T.V. box - This week's local music radio playlists. - The Beastie Boys' MCA h

  July 20, 2009

• Q&A with Krispy Kream of the Knux

  ​Don't let the tight jeans and thick-rimmed glasses fool you. The brothers who make up The Knux were raised about as far away from the suburbs as you can get: New Orleans' Ninth Ward. Still, Krispy Kream and Rah Almillio (aka Kentrell and Alvin Lindsey) found their sound by listening to just as much pop as hip-hop, and they are savvy enough to know that their cross-genre music plays better with the college kids than the hardcore rap fanatics. So they don't fight it. They fill their music w

  August 5, 2009

• Beyond Playlist: Maxwell and more

  ​Maxwell BLACKsummers' night (Columbia) Eight years have passed since Now, Maxwell's previous album. Fortunately, though, he's lost none of his musical sophistication, and he remains in possession of an impressively wide-ranging skill set -- one that allows him to achieve most, if not all, of his ambitions. Rather than easing into his return recording, he arrives astride "Bad Habits," a complex creation that requires him to shift vocal textures -- from falsetto to full-throated crooning a

  August 21, 2009