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After having been forced to cancel their previous in-store performance due to illness. Dan and Pat have announced that they will reschedule this date, performing at Rough Trade East on 24th June, the day after their sold out Roundhouse show. The will play....

 

Wednesday 23 June – LONDON – Roundhouse **(SOLD-OUT!)**

Thursday 24 June – LONDON - Rough Trade East (Instore – 7pm)

Wednesday 30 June – LONDON – Hyde Park (with Kings Of Leon) **(SOLD-OUT!)**

Monday 5 July – BIRMINGHAM – 02 Academy (£16)

Tuesday 6 July – MANCHESTER – Academy (£16)

Wednesday 7 July – BRISTOL – Colston Hall (£16)

Saturday 10 July – KINROSS – T In The Park

 

Thursday 28 October - GLASGOW - 02 Academy (£16)

Saturday 30 October - NEWCASTLE - 02 Academy (£16)

Sunday 31 October – LEEDS - 02 Academy (£16)   

Tuesday 2 November - LONDON - Brixton 02 Academy (£18.50)

Thursday 4 November - NOTTINGHAM - Rock City (£16)

Saturday 6 November - LIVERPOOL - 02 Academy (£16)

Sunday 7 November - BOURNEMOUTH - 02 Academy (£16) 

 

 

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“The Akron duo’s sixth album sizzles… Auerbach’s voice is as emotive as any in modern rock… “Brothers” will shiver the spine of anyone in love with unsanitised rock’n’roll”

Q - 4 Stars ****

 

“Brothers is all about The Black Keys swaggering journey from sub-White Stripes curio to one of the best rock’n’roll bands on the planet”

Uncut - 4 Stars ****

 

“Alabama has stoked The Black Keys dark side”

MOJO - 4 Stars ****

 

“Brothers marks the midway point between the garage rock stylings of their first few albums and the hip-hop influence of last year’s BLAKROC”

NME - 8/10

 

“America’s other celebrated alt-blues duo return from their own musical moonlighting sounding refreshed and reinvigorated. A 15-track dash through terrain that takes in boogie, soul, funk, gospel and, of course, the blues. The pair remain as lean and hungry as ever. More of the same this is not.”

Sunday Times - 4 Stars ****

 

“Brothers crunches through the gears from blues rock to psychedelic funk to sweet 60s soul… Brothers is the real deal”

Classic Rock – 9/10 

 

“This record is a triumph in every way… There just isn’t a wasted moment on here”

The Stool Pigeon - 5 Stars *****

 

“Soul oozes from this latest album by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney”

The Independent - 4 Stars ****

 

“Brothers expands deep into soul territory… warmth and creative energy ooze from every groove of this great record.”

Time Out - 4 Stars ****

 

“Experimental, dirty blues, played with passion and purpose; Brothers is proof that funky lessons have been learnt and the business is refreshed rather than resumed. Just six months on from showing us how far they’d come, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney give us a glimpse of how far they can still go.”

The Independent on Sunday – 4 stars ****

 

“Six albums in, The Black Keys are stronger than ever”

The Fly – 4 Stars ****

 

“A retro-soul cracker… Next Girl and She’s Long Gone are classic garage-rock stompers”

The Times - 4 Stars ****

 

“Richly textured… And boy does it have soul… A record which retools blues for the 21st Century”

Artrocker – 4 Stars ****

 

“The Akron band’s raging punk blues has moved into a leaner and meaner rock/funk strut on this sixth album”

The Mirror – 4 Stars ****

 

“Brothers finds them getting in touch with their soulful side, with falsetto vocals and vintage Stax grooves nicely mixed in with the usual grimy riffs.”

Financial Times - 4 stars ****

 

“Supercharged and superfly… Brothers is a far funkier proposition that previous releases…  It’s not difficult to discern why many people consider The Black Keys the coolest bunch of mofos alive.”

Rock’n’Reel - 4 Stars ****

 

“The Keys conjure the lusty blues-soul strut of a band possessed.”

The Independent (Information)

 

“Raw, ragged blues-rock recorded at Alabama’s legendary Muscle Shoals studios… Stunning”

Esquire

 

“Ragged interplay of lone guitar and drums, and an ability to find space for innovation amid tight musical constraints… Such is the ingenuity on display here”

The Observer

 

“The Black Keys are so hip it hurts”

WORD

 

“One of the most consistent rock bands of the past decade have again proved that there is never enough soul-fused rock music in the world… A great album from an under-appreciated act”

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