The Black Keys
@ Canes Bar and Grill
Sept. 22
$15
The White Stripes are not quite man enough for some people. Some people demand a broke-down blues singer, not a Robert Plant döppelganger. Some people demand bass drums the size of Soviet automobiles and drummers who can actually (ahem) drum. Two people. The Blues. They’re the real thing, direct from the factory floors of the Midwest. No marimba, just the groove. Singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach is only in his 20s, but still manages to convincce people that he’s an old man from the delta. The Keys are young, but they play the blues with the spirit of their late labelmate, Mr. R.L. Burnside. 21+ (CBN)
The Kills
@ The Casbah
Sept. 24
$14
The blues are like ice cream: Although everyone plays more or less the same flavors, each version tastes a little different. The boy-girl/punk-shuffle combination isn’t a new one, but the Kills bust it like Ben and Jerry’s: imaginative, chunky and flavorful – if sometimes a little weird. Hot-chick crooner VV slithers catty seduction over Hotel’s deep, relentlessly rhythmic mojo, two scoops each of sleazy and hypnotic. The Kills ain’t 31 flavors, but their eerily spare ingredients make ‘em more than just creamy copycats. 21+ (ISP)
Amadou & Mariam
• “Sénégal Fast Food”
• “La Réalité”
B.R.M.C.
• “Sympathetic Noose”
• “Shuffle Your Feet”
Guru
• “Hall of Fame”
Dangerdoom
• “The Mask
(feat. Ghostface Killah)”
Capone
• “Nowhere to Run”
The Black Keys
• “Girl Is On My Mind”
• “Keep Me”
The Kills
• “Cat Claw”
• “Dead Road 7”
