10 Best Hard Rock Guitar Riffs From The 2010s
4. She's Long Gone - The Black Keys (2010)
This list could be made up exclusively of tracks from the album Brothers, so brimming with irresistible guitar hooks is that record.
Some might be disheartened at the fact Gold On the Ceiling and Lonely Boy don't appear on this list either, El Camino was another outstanding album by the The Black Keys, after all, and those two tracks probably had as much airplay as any of the tracks on this list.
But, She's Long Gone takes the prize. It's a slower track admittedly and not as pumped full of the energy as some of their other numbers, but what it lacks in pace it makes up for in substance.
This song sneaks up on you, and it's the riff that comes in around the chorus that transforms it from your average Black Keys number to one of he slickest tracks Dan Auerbach has ever written. The riff just conveys every feeling a good rock riff ought to, it's naughty, it's unexpected, it's got attitude.
Hard pressed is anyone to walk down the street without adopting a strut when this riff comes snaking through the headphones.