Lav's Music Corner

The Black Keys are an Ohio rock duo that emerged in the early 2000's as a youthful and fiery rock act with their blistering 2004 garage rock album Rubber Factory . The band rose from the underground into the rock mainstream with a change in style that saw higher recording quality and clearer mixing on the part of producer Danger Mouse over the course of 4 studio albums from 2008-2014. This included 2010's grammy award winning Brothers , known as the bands breakthrough album into the commercial rock realm as well as the fantastic El Camino  in 2011. The last release from the band came in 2014 with the critically average Turn Blue  and now four years later the duo has returned and chosen to self produce their 9th studio album Let's Rock . Review By Lavender: While The Black Keys have never been an envelope pushing genre defying rock group they do have a long running consistency of making excellent garage rock and contemporary rock. In their underground days they releas...

Six albums that you should be excited for this week. Singles are coming from Lorde, The War On Drugs, Radiohead and Arcade Fire so don't let these projects slip past you. 1. Alt-J - Relaxer Alt-J have two good albums under their belt and after three different sounding singles there's no way to tell how this thing will sound. But there's one thing thats to be expected, it'll sound good. And it'll be the first album I'm playing at midnight this friday. 2. Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want Waters Pink Floyd legacy or past solo work didn't get him to this position. I'm surprised anyone is talking about it excited for a Roger Waters album in 2017 but here we are. Singles "The Last Refugee", "Deja Vu" and "Smell The Roses" are where all the excitement comes from. They're a varied and interesting trilogy of political and passionate songs. If the rest of the album can maintain this quality then we're i...