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One of the major forces behind the Black Keys is Daniel Quine “Dan” Auerbach, born in 1979. He’s an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the Black Keys, a blues-based rock band from Akron, Ohio. As a member of the band, Auerbach has recorded and co-produced eight […]

The Reverend Shawn Amos has a story to tell and it’s worth listening to get it. It’s how one black man from the suburbs of Los Angeles, came of age and how discovering the blues changed his life. In his mid-teens, Shawn’s show folk genes took hold. He left the turmoil of home–physically, at least–and […]

From the moment the Arctic Monkeys burst onto the stage it was clear they were going to dominate. Led by magnetic front man Alex Turner, thousands of people turn their eyes to him and sing every word of the band’s songs. By set’s end the enraptured crowd remains desperate for more. Formed in England in […]

Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart is an American singer-songwriter and pianist, born in New York. Classically trained on piano as a child, Apple began composing her own songs when she was eight years old. As Apple became more proficient playing piano she would play along with jazz standard compositions through which she discovered Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, who […]

A Perfect Circle is an American rock supergroup formed in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan.  The band has released four studio albums, the first three in the early 2000s.  A Perfect Circle performed sporadically after 2004 before reforming in 2017 to record their fourth album, Eat the Elephant, which […]