BLACK KEYS on Letterman this Thursday 4/17

The Black Keys will make an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday, April 17th. Check cbs.com for your local air times.

Thomas Function - Time Out New York

Time Out New York / Issue 654 : Apr 9–15, 2008
Live music show
Thomas Function

Photograph: April Novak
The Annex (LES); Tue 15

Joshua Macero, guitarist and vocalist for Alabama’s Thomas Function, sings in a register somewhere between whine and squeal. In contrast with Southern stereotype, he generally sounds agitated. On Celebration (Alive Naturalsound), his band’s full-length debut, Macero chirps and quivers and, mostly, the music corresponds. The quartet openly flirts with an array of genres—garage, country, old rock & roll—but the driving force seems to be tasteful ’70s punk from both sides of the Atlantic. On “A Long Walk,” the group throws guitar daggers familiarized by Television; “Snake in the Grass” has a bratty anthemic bounce akin to the Buzzcocks. (Both songs also echo Thomas Function’s West Coast contemporaries, the Old Haunts.) While these influences are uniformly thin and guitar-centered, Thomas Function places a menacing keyboard drone behind its every yelp—a sly gothic touch, burbling up from Alabama.

—Jay Ruttenberg

THOMAS FUNCTION - April tour dates

Apr 13 @ Longbranch - Knoxville, Tennessee
Apr 14 @ The Velvet Lounge - Washington DC
Apr 15 @ The Annex - New York, New York w/Live Fast Die
Apr 16 @ House Of Pleasure - Columbus, Ohio
Apr 17 @ Horrible Fest - Cleveland, Ohio
Apr 18 @ Blackout Fest Athens, Ohio
Apr 19 @ Frank‚s Power Plant Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Apr 20 @ Empty Bottle - Chicago, Illinois
Apr 28 @ Cotton & Steel - Huntsville, Alabama