Ohio Players: Vinyl LP Sonata Arctica with Locks’s BME-style sample-based sound

with Locks’s BME-style sample-based sound collage creating compositional beds underneath the signature Orson Wells-like vocal delivery he’s developed through his work with ESO

all couched in a highly distinct poetic language

actor and record producer best known for his guitar contributions to albums by country musicians including Johnny Cash

with embossed braille lettering for the visually impaired

from struggling through poverty to make ends meet to turning a hobby into a legacy

Ohio Players: Vinyl LP Sonata Arctica with Locks’s BME-style sample-based soundThe Black Keys kick off the New Year with the release of their new single Beautiful People (Stay High). The song arrives alongside the announcement of the multiple Grammy Award winning, Akron, Ohio natives twelfth studio album, Ohio Players. An extensive international tour will be announced at a later date. Written by The Black Keys Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with longtime friends Dan The Automator Nakamura and Beck, the celebratory, joyful