Rhythm Method: The Black Keys "All Hands Against His Own"

Before they broke through the top of the billboard with a brass-knuckled-blues-rock fist and went gold (toothed) with Brothers, before they started collaborating with Danger Mouse, and before their songs started showing up as background tracks in pretty much every television commercial for anything from videogames to lingerie, film soundtrack, or HBO series preview, Dan Auerbach & Patrick Carney, who aren't really brothers, lest you be confused by the title of the aforementioned album, wandered into an abandoned tire factory, in Akron Ohio, to record their third album, the aptly titled Rubber Factory. In that factory, they captured the immediacy of their garageband inklings, while never straying away from their grimy blues swagger. It's the sound of a garageband in a much bigger garage, and a blues band without all that mopiness. The album is stacked, like the tires on the cover, with tracks ready to be plucked as ripe singles. It's no wonder so may of them were, indeed, used as such.