Personnel: Alicia Keys (vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, harpsichord, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron, bass synthesizer, Moog synthesizer, vocoder, background vocals); Alicia Keys (synthesizer, string synthesizer, programming); Jack Splash (various...

Personnel includes: Alicia Keys (vocals, piano, synthesizer); Tony! Toni! Tone! (vocals); Rich Harrison, Andre Harris, Vidal Davis (various instruments); Sharif Hobley, Artie White, Ricky Quinones (guitar); Dwayne Wiggins (sitar, bass); Sanford...

Personnel includes: Alicia Villarreal, Pedro Fernandez (vocals); Jose Guadalupe Alfaro (guitar, vihuela); Ramon Stagnaro (guitar, clarinet); Enrique De Santiago (guitar); Doug Norwine, Don Markese (saxophone); Harry Kim, Ramon Flores (trumpet); Art...

Audio Mixer: Tchad Blake.
Photographer: John Peets.
Retreating from the hazy Danger Mouse-fueled pot dream of Attack & Release, the Black Keys headed down to the legendary Muscle Shoals, recording their third album on their own and dubbing it...

The Black Keys: Dan Auerbach (vocals, guitar); Gabe Fulvimar (Moog synthesizer, keyboards); Patrick Carney (drums).
Recorded Synth Etiquette Analog Sound, Akron, Ohio between January and February 2002.
On paper, two Ohio white guys forming a...

Scott Bomar, the bassist/auteur of this large, horn-enhanced, Memphis-based retro-soul band, is nothing if not steeped in authenticity. Along with Brooklyn's Dap-Kings and Nashville's Dynamites, he's referencing the tough soul sound of the '60s and...

Personnel: Alicia Keys (vocals, various instruments, piano, keyboards); Jimmy Cozier (vocals): Gerald "G" Flowers, Arty White (guitar); Miri (violin); Isaac Hayes (Fender Rhodes piano); Brian Cox (keyboards); Richie Good (upright bass); Tim Shider,...

Personnel: Charles "Skip" Pitts (guitar); Kirk Smothers (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Derrick Williams (tenor saxophone); Floyd Newman, Jim Spake (baritone saxophone); Ben Cauley, Marc Franklin (trumpet); Al Gamble, Archie Turner...

Audio Mixer: Tchad Blake.
Recording information: Easy Eye Sound System; Muscle Shoals Sound Studio; Soil Of The South Studios, San Diego, CA; The Bunker, Brooklyn. NY.
Photographer: John Peets.
Retreating from the hazy Danger Mouse-fueled...

Audio Mixer: Ross Pallone.
Liner Note Author: Joe Reagoso.
Recording information: Dilling Street Studio, USA; The Villa Studio, North Hollywood, CA; Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, CA.
Photographers: Joel Levinson; Brian Aris.

Retreating from the hazy Danger Mouse-fueled pot dream of Attack & Release, the Black Keys headed down to the legendary Muscle Shoals, recording their third album on their own and dubbing it Brothers. The studio, not to mention the artwork patterned...

Retreating from the hazy Danger Mouse-fueled pot dream of Attack & Release, the Black Keys headed down to the legendary Muscle Shoals, recording their third album on their own and dubbing it Brothers. The studio, not to mention the artwork patterned...

Audio Mixers: Manny Marroquin; Kerry Brothers; Jimmy Douglass; Alicia Keys; Patrick Viala; Phil Tan; Russell Elevado; Tony Black.

Don't mistake the presence of Jay-Z and Beyoncé on Alicia Keys' fourth album as evidence that the singer/songwriter is burrowing into modern R&B -- take it instead as evidence of the rarefied company Keys keeps, her status as a superstar so...

Though the Black Keys resemble post-punk garage revivalists like the White Stripes, and are likely to raise an eyebrow among old-school blues purists, the duo packs a serious blues punch. The minimal sound of RUBBER FACTORY moves on the rickety...

Initially planned as a collaboration between the Black Keys and Ike Turner, ATTACK AND RELEASE became solely a Black Keys project when Turner died in late 2007. Under the producing hand of Danger Mouse--who had introduced the Akron duo to...