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  RZA and the Black Keys Combine Funkily, Create 'The Baddest Man Alive'

  October 11, 2012 – Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA and Ohio blues-rockers the Black Keys have teamed up before, on a track from the Keys' 2009 rap collaborative album BlakRoc. Now their reunion on "The Baddest Man Alive," the opening track from RZA's upcoming soundtrack to the upcoming martial arts movie he directed, The Man With the Iron Fists, has emerged via Fuse. …
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  Black Keys Plot New Danger Mouse-Produced Album for 2013

  October 2, 2012 – With only a decade under their collective (rust) belt Ohio garage-blues gurus the Black Keys have helmed eight albums (figuring in the Blakroc project) and a pair of EPs. In a new interview with CBS Local, via L.A. …
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  The Black Keys Invite 'Lonely Boy' Dancing Dude to MTV VMAs

  September 5, 2012 – Last October, the Black Keys posted "Lonely Boy," the surf-flecked first single from their then-upcoming album El Camino, in the form of a bare-bones video that shows a lone man outside a motel room busting a move. Within a couple of days, the video had racked up more than 600,000 YouTube views, and the dancer was revealed to be a 48-year-old actor, musician, and part-time security guard named Derrick T. Tuggle. …
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  Watch the Black Keys' High-Octane 'Little Black Submarines' Video

  September 4, 2012 – A broken heart may be blind, as Dan Auerback sings on El Camino's quiet-loud head-kicker "Little Black Submarines," but people still like to watch something while listening to music on YouTube. After the bizarre Harmony Korine-directed alternate video for glam-rock standout "Gold on the Ceiling," the Black Keys' most recent clip takes a more straightforward approach. …
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  Foo Fighters, Black Keys, Neil Young Playing NYC Charity Fest

  August 7, 2012 – New York City has a star-studded new charity concert coming to Central Park on September 29. Neil Young, Foo Fighters, Black Keys, Band of Horses, and K'naan will be converging on the Great Lawn for Global Festival 2012, the AP reports. The festival aims to fight poverty worldwide. In keeping with the anti-poverty goal, event organizers aren't offering tickets the conventional way. …
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  Lollapalooza 2012: SPIN's Best Live Photos

  August 4, 2012 –  …
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  Lollapalooza 2012: 10 Best and Worst of Day One

  August 4, 2012 – SPIN's intrepid team has invaded Chicago's Grant Park, attempting to see as many of the 30 essential sets at this year's Lollapalooza as possible while avoiding the twin evils of 21st-century festivals (no, not Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie: bad-attitude bros and foul corndogs). …
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  Black Keys Sue Home Depot, Pizza Hut for Using Songs in Ads

  June 22, 2012 – The Black Keys owe a lot of their recent explosion into superstardom to the omnipresence of their music in commercials like this one for this beer brand and this one for this cell phone, and this one for this car. How much do they love selling out? Just ask them! …
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  Johnny Depp's Keith Richards Act Boosts Black Keys Sales

  June 14, 2012 – Sorry, Barack Obama, the music industry may have a new savior and his name is Johnny Depp. The week after he donned a Keith Richards-like wardrobe and picked up a guitar to join the Black Keys onstage at the MTV Movie Awards, Billboard reports sales of that band's latest album El Camino saw an 18 percent sales rise, which equates to about 10,000 copies. …
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  Lollapalooza 2012's 5 Most Wrenching Set-Time Conflicts

  June 13, 2012 – Most festivals have two or three stages featuring artists playing at the same time, but this year's Lollapalooza has an overwhelming eight. Since announcing its full lineup in April, Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell's mega fest has had us biting our nails, waiting to see who will be playing against whom. The moment of truth arrived yesterday, when the fest posted its schedule. …
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