The Black Keys, Opinions on Shabaka & Hurray for the Riff Raff

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, the eclectic garage-rock duo who recently released their twelfth studio album. Jim and Greg also review new records from Shabaka and Hurray for the Riff Raff.

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Featured Songs:

The Black Keys, "Beautiful People (Stay High)," Ohio Players, Easy Eye Sound, 2024

The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967

Shabaka, "Insecurities (feat. Moses Sumney)," Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, Impulse!, 2024

Shabaka, "I'll Do Whatever You Want (feat. Floating Points, Laraaji)," Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, Impulse!, 2024

Shabaka, "Body To Inhabit (feat. E L U C I D)," Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, Impulse!, 2024

Shabaka, "As The Planets And The Stars Collapse," Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, Impulse!, 2024

Hurray For The Riff Raff, "Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)," The Past Is Still Alive, Nonesuch, 2024

Hurray For The Riff Raff, "Buffalo," The Past Is Still Alive, Nonesuch, 2024

Hurray For The Riff Raff, "Vetiver," The Past Is Still Alive, Nonesuch, 2024

Hurray For The Riff Raff, "Ogallala," The Past Is Still Alive, Nonesuch, 2024

The Black Keys, "This Is Nowhere," Ohio Players, Nonesuch, 2024

The Black Keys, "You'll Pay," Ohio Players, Nonesuch, 2024

The Black Keys, "Only Love Matters," Ohio Players, Nonesuch, 2024

The Black Keys, "On The Game," Ohio Players, Nonesuch, 2024

The Black Keys, "Forgot To Be Your Lover," Ohio Players, Nonesuch, 2024

The Black Keys, "Paper Crown (feat. Beck and Juicy J)," Ohio Players, Nonesuch, 2024

Cumbia en Moog, "Cumbia de Sal," The Afrosound of Colombia, Vol. 1, Discos Fuentes, 1976

The Ambassadors, "I Really Love You," Cooler Than Ice: Arctic Records and the RIse of Philly Soul, Jamie, 2012

R.E.M., "Radio Free Europe," Murmur, I.R.S., 1983

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0:00.0	Hey Sound Opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast
0:05.8	Ad Free on Patreon. He took the bomb. You're listening to sound opinions and this week we talk with the Akron Ohio
0:29.7	Rock Duo Grammy Award winners, The Black Keys.
0:34.0	I'm Jim D. Regattus.
0:35.0	And I'm Greg Kot.
0:36.0	But first, let's review new music from Shabaka and Hooray for the Rif Raff. RF. That's a little bit of the insecurities from the new Shabaka album perceive its beauty, acknowledge its grace, Shabaka, otherwise known as Shabaka Hutchings.
1:06.5	We've talked about him on the show before.
1:09.0	This is his solo studio debut, but he is one of the kingpins of the London Jazz scene.
1:15.7	And people might think, Jazz, London, it's been, the last decade has been amazing.
1:20.9	A number of great artists have emerged from that scene
1:25.1	uh... shabaca was born in uh... london in nineteen eighty four was raised in
1:28.9	Birmingham and then uh... barbedos where his parents were originally from, studied classical music and Calypso and really came into jazz when he was 16 and mentored by the saxophone of Saueto Kinch who is mixing jazz with hip-hop and
1:45.9	there's really the key to what Chabaka Hutchin is doing. The purists will
1:50.8	sneer at what Chabaka is doing because he's not a jazz, you know, 50s
1:57.0	accolade. He is really moving the genre forward, which is one of the reasons we have addressed him. I've considered him one of the major
2:04.8	artists of the last few years. He's in a bunch of bands, Chabaca and the ancestors, which
2:10.0	is basically South African musicians along with Shabaka.
2:14.4	He led Sons of Comette, this multi-genre UK Quartet before it's dissolution in 2022,
2:20.9	was part of that trio, The Comet is is coming which blended funk and rock influences
2:25.0	with jazz.
2:25.8	You love them.
2:26.8	They were fantastic.
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