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Dan Auerbach is one of Ohio’s greatest guitar players, bringing blues roots to the mainstream with a major-league soloing and riffing style
By Martin Cooper published
This video lesson unpacks Auerbach’s rhythm and lead approaches – and mastering it could put gold on your ceiling
Black Keys, Black Crowes and the next in line for Mastodon’s mind-expanding metal crown: this week’s essential guitar tracks
By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Matt Owen, Matt Parker published
The must-hear licks, riffs, solos and six-string moments from BIG|BRAVE, Bring Me The Horizon, Dead Poet Society, Bodega, Slift, Waxahatchee, and more
Glenn Schwartz is one of America's great unsung guitar heroes – as evidenced by this new single with Joe Walsh and Dan Auerbach
By Jackson Maxwell published
Auerbach says there would be no Black Keys without Schwartz, who was the original guitarist in the James Gang, and would go on to be replaced by a then-unknown Walsh
Dan Auerbach breaks down the guitar playing on 5 classic Black Keys tracks
By Joshua M. Miller published
The prolific frontman, producer and fuzz pedal aficionado at large takes five to talk five, unpacking the stories behind a fistful of the band's most-loved tracks
The greatest guitar albums of the 2010s
By Ellie Rogers published
A new generation of guitar heroes greets the stalwarts as we look at the decade's best albums from Slash, Ghost, The Black Keys and more – as voted by you
Andrew Gabbard: “My love for Firebirds comes from Neil Young because he had a Firebird pickup in his Goldtop and they just cut through”
By Jamie Dickson, David Mead published
The Black Keys sideman and songwriter says good things come in small packages: namely, mini-humbuckers and Fender amps
Hear The Black Keys jam with Billy Gibbons on new track Good Love
By Matt Parker published
Dan Auerbach says he handed Gibbons “a guitar he had never played, and an amp he never played. He plugged it straight in… and sounded exactly like Billy Gibbons”
Dan Auerbach explains the Supro secret behind The Black Keys’ Howlin’ For You fuzz tone
By Matt Parker published
The reedy fuzz tone on the duo’s biggest hit came from a secret weapon in Auerbach’s gear arsenal
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