The Black Keys News

The Black Keys perform July 13 at Waterfront Park in Louisville during the Forecastle Festival.

The countdown to Firefly Music Festival is on. Only four weeks out! Last year's inaugural fest in Dover was unbelievably fun, and this year's June 21-23 event promises to build on its momentum.

SEAN JOSEPH PATRICK CARNEY wears a tower of hats. His publishing company Social Malpractice - best known for releasing the erotic fan-fiction collection Fucking James Franco - began as a vanity distribution node for Carney's English-to-American translations of classic critical-theory texts .

Pulling off a record that hinges on substantial doses of both intensity and airiness requires an especially deft hand.

One of the biggest concert announcements of the summer, The Black Keys will play Buffalo's Outer Harbor on Monday, July 8. Tickets for the show are $48 in advance and they will go on sale Thursday at noon.

Hanni El Khatib is a first-generation American who grew up with a Palestinian father and a Filipino mother in San Francisco.

Louisiana is renowned for many things - blackened catfish, hurricanes, political corruption, "Treme" - but especially for its musical exports.

It's getting close to summer in the O.C. and that means local venues will be dialing up their music menus .

For four decades, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has been a mecca for music lovers from across the nation.

Maybe it all comes down to being in the right place at the right time. Maybe luck has something to do with it.

Since the theme lately has been the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival, it seems only fitting that the trend continues for just a little bit longer.

Although guitar-driven rock's incursions into the world of popular music are regular, widespread embrace of guitar virtuosity is a rarer thing.

For years the Black Keys toured the country behind their lo-fi blues-rock, growing their fanbase the old-fashioned way.

Nick Clark holds a black mug with a number three on it containing straight coffee.

DJ and mash-up artist Wick-it the Instigator returns to Asheville for a Saturday co-bill with Eliot Lipp at The Orange Peel .

A newly formed organization created to preserve and promote Muscle Shoals music is raising money to purchase the former location of Muscle Shoals Sound Studios.

Blurring the line between musician and fan, Geyserville bluesman Charlie Musselwhite pulled out his color-coded BottleRock schedule to survey the must-see bands he'd circled for Day 2: Alabama Shakes, Justin Townes Earle, The Flaming Lips and The Black Keys.

A new installment of the series of The Rolling Stones tribute shows known as Stones Fest is set to take place in New York and Los Angeles later this month.

Some 20,000 fans turned out to celebrate the debut of the mammoth music festival on Thursday.

Chris Shiflett, the lead guitarist for Foo Fighters, has been added to the Tribute to the Music of Johnny Cash event on June 15 in Ventura.