Big East out, Black Keys in to World's Greatest Arena...

(NY Times)-Primordial equals durable for the Black Keys, a two-man band — Patrick Carney on drums, and Dan Auerbach on guitar and vocals — originally from Akron, Ohio, and recently transplanted to Nashville. Visuals aside, their concert on Monday night could easily have taken place in 1973. It was a set full of stomping drumbeats and distorted guitar riffs carrying mostly declarations of woman trouble and other mental distress.  The songs were blues-rock, garage-rock, borderline psychedelia and loud pop, mostly harking back to the 1960s; the most recent musical reference, with brawny guitar tones and upper-register backing vocals, was the T. Rex of “Bang a Gong (Get It On)” and “Jeepster.” Yet the Black Keys weren’t playing some blues bar for a handful of nostalgic baby boomers or a classic-rock radio station’s office party. This was a sold-out Madison Square Garden, with a general-admission floor crowd clamoring toward the stage and an audience full of girls eager to dance and scream.  Read More