Frequency Festival, the yearly event that takes place in St. Poelten, Austria, started on August 15, with a roaring welcome day. The festival is organized by Skalar Entertainment GmbH. It is the gathering of music lovers from all around Europe who celebrate the many forms music can take. Eight stages and more than 100 acts are set to entertain the giant crowd participating in the event which will go on until Saturday, August 18.

The grand opening, among others, saw the performances of The Black Keys and The Killers at the Space Stage, the most “rocking” stage of the event.

The blues-rock duo from Ohio, composed of Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach, bedazzled their fans for about one hour. The daylight accompanied their performance, as well as the two musicians Gus Seyffert and John Wood, who are currently touring with the duo. When El Camino was released, Patrick Carney was said to be worried about future live performances, due to the faster drumming tempo of their newest work.

But he didn’t have to be; we greatly applaud Carney’s performance as he banged the drums to perfection yesterday, enriching the entire performance. The guitar played by Dan Auerbach also helped conquer a crowd that couldn’t help but rocking out to the rock-blues sounds of the duo.

The catchy ‘Lonely Boy’ did its job, setting the audience on fire, although the peak of the performance was probably ‘Little Black Submarines,’ a jewel of a song, masterfully executed by the band. Most of the songs were performed with the support of two live musicians playing bass, keyboards and an additional guitar, but Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach also reserved a couple of more private moments for themselves, addressing the audience on their own.

The talent that the two musicians from Ohio showed in their records was confirmed by their live performance, full of professionalism, passion, and great musical capabilities.

The Killers played afterwards as headliner, concluding the first of the four days of the festival. They took the stage and performed with flashy choreography worthy of their Las Vegas origins. Colorful lights and images passing by on a background of electronic mountains accompanied their entire performance, with the addition of a couple of fireworks moments.

The Killers played some of their most famous hits as well as some of their new material, entertaining the audience for about an hour and a half. A charming performance, which reached peaks of crowd appreciation with hits such as ‘Somebody Told Me’ and ‘Mr. Brightside.’ A clean and well-executed show by the pop-rock band made in Las Vegas.

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Global Festival 2012 will take place on September 29 in New York’s Central Park at the same time of the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York. The festival will be headlined by the Foo Fighters, The Black Keys,  Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Band of Horses, and K’NAAN, who will join around 54,000 attendees.

The charity festival is “a catalytic event to end extreme poverty,” as stated on the show’s Facebook page. It is part of the Global Poverty Project, and the spirit behind the organization of the show has been expressed by the organizers, who wrote: “The fight for justice has never been easy. But human history has always been shaped by courageous actions and a vision of a better world.  As Global Citizens, we’ve put our hands up to stand against the greatest injustice of our time: extreme poverty.”

No tickets will be sold; they have to be earned. This is the “action” part. People (18+) will be able to participate to a lottery for the chance to win tickets for the event by completing some steps as explained on the Global Citizen’s website. After taking actions such as signing petitions, promoting awareness via social networks, making donations and so on, people can earn points that will open them to the doors to the lottery.

For the organization of the event, The Global Poverty Project is assisted by promoters Goldenvoice/AEG. The festival will be financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Sumner Redstone Charity Foundation, with the participation of international groups such as UNICEF.

Organizer, Hugh Evans, said the goal of the event is to have fans take 100,000 actions by September. This will then be used as leverage when asking the world’s leaders, who will be in town during the event, to make monetary commitments for reaching development goals.

According to Huff Post, The Black Key’s Patrick Carney said about the event: “The scale of things that they’re trying do just felt really cool, and we’re trying to get the ball rolling. Especially with everything that’s been going on for the last three years, I suppose, after the stock market crashed. There’s attention on the amount of people living below the poverty line and the disparity between the rich and the poor and everything that’s going on now … . It just felt like the right time to do something.”

Foo Fighters released a statement which read “We are very proud to be lending a hand to such a creative, important event and are looking forward to adding to the noise in the big park and helping the effort toward reducing the global shame of deep poverty.”

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The Black Keys, composed of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, have been touring in promotion of their latest album, ‘El Camino,’ with great success in Europe and North America for months now, and they will go on with live shows until next fall. While on the road, the blues-rock duo from Akron, OH, has been accompanied by director Noah Abrams who is putting together a documentary on the phenomenal band.

According to the director himself, the documentary will revolve around the relationship between the two guys from Ohio who started their collaboration in 2001, and who have grown as musicians together ever since.

In an interview with SPIN magazine, Abrams defined some of the traits of his experience with the rock duo, and what to expect for the documentary. “A lot of music documentaries spend too much time trying to make people cool. I’m fortunate enough to know these guys pretty well and their relationship is pretty incredible and very funny,” said Abrams “They’re guys that grew up around the corner from each other. They worked and worked and worked and toured and toured and slept in a van and worked their asses off and now they’re selling out arenas.”

It is no secret that these two guys have worked hard to reach the position they are in today within the music scene. In 2010 they hit it big time with their album ‘Brothers,’ but rather than resting on their laurels, they kept on working on new material while touring. This inspired wild rhythms, but also the graceful creation of the album ‘El Camino.’ Through the record, Auerbach and Carney succeeded in canalizing their enormous talent into a mature and glorious work, which also seems to be an anthem for their lack of fear of exploration and innovation.

The astonishing result has been much appreciated by the wider audience: including fans, critics and other musicians. Recently, actor/musician Jack Black (Tenacious D), defined The Black Keys in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, as one of the last representatives of true rock ‘n’ roll, together with Jack White and the Foo Fighters.

The celebration of Auerbach and Carney’s hard-working attitude and success seems to be the moving force behind Abram’s documentary “I think it’s a testament to their talent and hard work,” Abrams said; he then added, “We’ve gotten some amazing footage so far. For as big as these guys are now, they’re still two guys from Akron. The comedy is usually endless with these two.” The director expressed his hopes for having the documentary completed for the 2013 film festival season, and he is hoping for a theatrical release.

If you want to catch the chance to see The Black Keys playing live, you will find the complete schedule for their tour here.

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