First and foremost, you should know him from The Black Keys alongside drummer Patrick Carney. You know that four time Grammy award winning band? Yeah, that one.

I must admit my unhealthy obsession with the duo has caused me to listen to the entire discography in one sitting and almost every interview known to YouTube. There is something so raw, so purely badass about what they do and how they do it. The blues rock band doused in Ibanez standard fuzz have been turning heads for over ten years.

Part Polish-Jewish, part Manx, part legend, Auerbach grew up in Akran, Ohio surrounded by his musically inclined family including cousin and guitarist, Robert Quine. His first concert was Whitney Houston, he was captain of the soccer team in high school, and he dropped out of college because he studied more Junior Kimbrough than the curriculum. The rest is history.

This is one multi-dimensional son of a gun. He produced Lana Del Rey's "Ultraviolence" and Cage The Elephant's new LP "Tell Me I'm Pretty" which are just a couple albums he blessed. The Growlers "Hung At Heart"? JEFF The Brotherhood's "Hypnotic Nights"? Produced them. Despite Auerbach being behind the scenes, it is arguably some of his best work.

Familiar with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals? Hanni El Khatib? He hand-clapped on them. I mean, yeah he also composed and produced them but he handclapped on them. I think that's great. It makes me giggle. But in a bad-ass way. I probably definitely would listen to a track of just Dan Auerbach clapping.

The latest addition, The Arcs. A five-piece band that makes your soul explode. Including Richard Swift, Leon Michels, Nick Movshom, and Homer Steinweiss, the Arcs are a collaborative effort of the five men who have been jamming for ages. Accompanied on several tracks is the all woman Mariachi band from New York, Flor De Toloache. What Dan points out in a mid-2015 interview with Rolling Stone is how they're making music for the sake of making music. There isn't commercial pressure, simply a collaborative effort between dudes who decided to give themselves a name and roll with it.

Groovy side note: The Arcs released a track titled "Lake Superior" inspired by Netflix's new "Making a Murderer" and all the proceeds will go directly to Innocence Project, a non-profit dedicated to helping wrongly convicted people. Listen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thearcs/lake-superior

Dan Auerbach isn't going anywhere. With plans to continue the Arcs, there is much more to hear. What the world shouldn't be sleeping on is his producing magic.

That's how I feel about having just written this article. And about Dan Auerbach. And The Black Keys. And The Arcs.