Night Beats

Danny Lee Blackwell's Night Beats give listeners a guided tour of a wide range of vintage sounds from raucous garage rock and beer-soaked blues to trippy psychedelia and good old rock & roll. Early works like their self-titled 2011 debut album displayed a swaggering attitude and a scrappy approach to playing and singing, after which Blackwell charted an unpredictable course. 2019's Myth of a Man polished their sound up nicely with the help of producer Dan Auerbach, while 2021's Outlaw R&B was more of a blown-out garage rock session. After a detour to record an album as Abraxas...