Single Review - Stay in Your Grave by The Black Keys Feat. Alice Cooper

The Black Keys are one of the bands which I credit with opening my eyes to what contemporary music was like. Prior to Brothers (2010), I was mostly listening to the ten CD's my dad had in his car's console while he drove me from place to place in the way you have to drive someone who's fifteen years old. I got to know those CD's very well, so maybe my young brain was craving something origional, and maybe I would have been a fan either way, but The Black Keys earned a lifelong fan out of me. Even if the band's overall quality has fallen since the height of their popularity, which was when El Camino was released in 2011, I'm still excited by each new release by the duo made up of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney.

In this case, Stay In Your Grave does two things very well: it reminds me of the classic Black Keys sound that I know and love so much, and it actually sounds like a collaboration with Alice Cooper. Both musical styles and influences are easily recognizable even to the most casual of listeners. Combining Cooper's composition, song structure, and tone, with The Black Keys' orchestration, performance, and production creates a really juicy blend of hard rock and down-n'-dirty blues. Definitely check this one out!