Magic Potion, one of 2006's most potent releases, will leave you throttled and thrilled - and you might need to replace your smoldering speakers.   Full text...

The group sounds as wonderfully debauched, degenerate and dejected as ever.   Full text...

The Black Keys’ debut for a bigger label has them reaching a wide audience with a style that had them playing to half-filled clubs when they started off.  Full text...

The sound may be retro, but pure blues rock of this caliber is really timeless.  Full text...

For the Black Keys, perhaps magic potion is not coke or a fancy label or staying pure but rather what happens after a well-deserved rest.  Full text...

Magic Potion is a record where overwhelming competence meets measured restraint, but for me, sacrilege trumps sincerity, and I'd rather hear tuneful blasphemy than a tasteful snoozer of an album.  Full text...

The blues-rockin’ riffs, courtesy of Dan Auerbach, are present and correct, and Patrick Carney’s drums are rarely less than suitably bombastic, but Magic Potion suffers, rather, from alarming dips in concentration.  Full text...

An American guitar and drums duo dealing in raw, stripped down blues, originally championed by the late John Peel. Sound familiar?  Full text...