Music

Akron, Ohio – hotbed of rubber manufacturing and home to The Black Keys, now beaming into your world via that Sony Ericsson ad with the tennis players. Dan Auerbach (vocals, guitar) and Patrick Carney (drums) play the filthiest, most magnificently raw, fat-riffed and sexily growling blues rock imaginable, cutting John Lee Hooker’s primitivism with the Southern boogie of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young’s ravaged glory, although ‘You’re The One’ shows off a newly tender string to their bow.