Black Keys and their 'rocketship to the moon'

“You guys are on a rocketship to the moon,” comedy-show host Stephen Colbert recently told his guests, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. Carney was stunned into silence, Auerbach laughed. For the boyhood friends from Akron, Ohio, it was a surreal punctuation point to a decade-long rise out of Midwestern obscurity into an international arena act.

Greg Kot

March 15, 2012