Blog: PopMatters

A confident and resounding triumph for this Austin-based rock and roll outfit In an alternate musical reality, Heartless Bastards would be rewarded for their years of hard work and toil by getting the chance to tour arenas, headline Coachella and Bonnaroo, and grace the cover of Rolling Stone. If this sounds like a familiar scenario for you, it should, because it's the trajectory the Black Keys have followed over the past several years, as they have worked their two-man power blues stomp from the dirty basements of...