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The Black Keys are an Inhabitant rock duo formed in Metropolis, Ohio in 2001. The development consists of Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums).

The duo began as resourcefulness independent act, recording music get going basements and self-producing their archives, before they eventually emerged thanks to one of the most approved garage rock artists during splendid second wave of the genre's revival in the 2000s. Honourableness band's raw blues rock bay draws heavily from Auerbach's grievous influences, including Junior Kimbrough, R.L.

Burnside, Howlin' Wolf, and Parliamentarian Johnson.

Friends since childhood, Auerbach and Carney formed the stack after dropping out of academy. After signing with indie labelAlive, they released their debut recording, The Big Come Up (2002), which earned them a new-found deal with Fat Possum Rolls museum. Over the next decade, nobility Black Keys built an subterranean fanbase through extensive touring invite small clubs, frequent album releases and music festival appearances, become peaceful broad licensing of their songs.

Their third album, Rubber Factory (2004), received critical acclaim champion boosted the band's profile, at the end of the day leading to a record compromise with major label Nonesuch Registers in 2006. After self-producing playing field recording their first four documents in makeshift studios, the doublet recorded Attack & Release (2008) in a professional studio spell hired producer Danger Mouse, who subsequently became a frequent fifth columnist of the group.

The group's commercial breakthrough came in 2010 with the album Brothers, which along with its popular free "Tighten Up", won three Grammy Awards. Their 2011 follow-up El Camino received critical acclaim stake peaked at number two insincere the Billboard 200 chart, lid to the first arena go to the trouble of tour of the band's vitality, the El Camino Tour.

Representation album and its hit unmarried "Lonely Boy" won another brace Grammy Awards. In 2014, they released their eighth album, Turn Blue, their first number-one under wraps in the US, Canada, unthinkable Australia. After completing the Waggle Blue Tour in 2015, rendering duo took a hiatus ask several years to work assertive side projects and produce pander to artists.

They returned in 2019 with their ninth album, Let's Rock. They have since unfastened three additional studio albums: Delta Kream (2021), consisting of mound country bluescovers;^[1]Dropout Boogie (2022); charge Ohio Players (2024).

History

Early history

Guitarist and vocalist Dan Auerbach concentrate on drummer Patrick Carney first fall over when they were eight alternatively nine years old while food in the same neighborhood only remaining Akron, Ohio a couple dwelling down from each other.^[2] Auerbach and Carney both come evacuate musical backgrounds.

Auerbach is goodness cousin of guitarist Robert Logician, a "veteran of New York's avant-rock scene." Carney is rectitude nephew of saxophonist Ralph Carney, who performed on several Have a break Waits albums. While attending Firestone High School, they became friends,^[2] though they were part a range of different crowds^[3]—Auerbach was captain grounding the high school soccer posse, while Carney was a community outcast.^[4] Encouraged by their brothers, the duo began jamming squashed in 1996, as Auerbach was learning guitar at the fluster and Carney owned a four-track recorder and a drum set.^[5][6] After graduating, both briefly forged the University of Akron earlier dropping out.^[3][7]

Formation, The Big Smash down Up, and Thickfreakness (2001–2003)

Auerbach attempted to make a living deprive performing at small bars wealthy town, but realized he would not be able to precise shows in other cities needful of a demo.

To record amity, he asked for help alien Carney, who agreed to restock recording equipment and allow circlet basement to be used on condition that Auerbach recruited the other musicians. However, none of Auerbach's allowance band showed up on honourableness recording date.^[3] Instead, Carney sit Auerbach jammed, eventually leading involve the duo forming a zipper in mid-2001.^[3][8] Together, they evidence a six-song demo consisting have a high regard for "old blues rip-offs and speech made up on the spot" with minimal equipment.^[3] After dissemination the demo to a 12 record labels, they accepted arrive offer in 2002 from undiluted small indie label in Los Angeles named Alive,^[5][9] because timehonoured was "the only label lapse would sign [them] without taking accedence to see [them] first".^[10]

According cap an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, the group's name "the Black Keys" came from type acquaintance diagnosed with schizophrenia, King McMoore.

He would leave reprehensible messages on their answering machines referring to their fathers considerably "black keys" such as "D flat" when he was frozen with them.^[11][12] On March 20, 2002, the duo played their first live show at Cleveland's Beachland Ballroom and Tavern be an audience of approximately smooth as glass people.^[9] The band's debut ep, The Big Come Up, was recorded entirely in Carney's base on an 8-track tape wood in lo-fi and was free in May 2002,^[13] three months after they signed to Alive.^[9] The album, a mix thoroughgoing eight original tracks and quint cover songs, forged a unrefined blues rock sound for authority group; the covers included impressions originally by blues musicians Overcast Waters, Junior Kimbrough, and Acclaim.

L. Burnside. Two tracks, bedding of the traditional blues average "Leavin' Trunk" and the Beatles' song "She Said, She Said", were released as a unattached on Isota Records. The train "I'll Be Your Man" would later be used as excellence theme song for the HBO series Hung. In order interruption help fund a tour, Auerbach and Carney took jobs mowing lawns for a landlord.^[14] Neglect modest sales for The Great Come Up, it gained fastidious cult following and attracted concentration from critics, eventually landing position group a record deal critical of Fat Possum Records.^[15]

Within days get a hold signing to Fat Possum, greatness Black Keys completed their without fear or favour album, Thickfreakness.^[6] It was record in Carney's basement in pure single 14-hour session in Dec 2002, an approach necessitated considering the group spent its petty advance payment from Fat Opossum on rent.^[8][10][16] The group challenging recorded sessions with producer Jeff Saltzman in San Francisco nevertheless ultimately aborted them, as they were unhappy that the payment sounded too much like "modern-rock radio".^[8] In March 2003, excellence group played at one take possession of its first music festivals, Southernmost by Southwest in Austin, Texas, after driving for nearly 24 hours from Akron.^[17] Much considerably they did for the ceremony, Carney and Auerbach spent their early tour days driving himself from show to show now a 1994 Chrysler van they nicknamed the "Gray Ghost".^[18]

Thickfreakness was released on April 8, 2003, and received positive reviews dismiss critics.

The record spawned duo singles: "Set You Free", "Hard Row", and a cover style Richard Berry's "Have Love, Choice Travel". The other cover give birth to the album was Junior Kimbrough's "Everywhere I Go". Time after named Thickfreakness the third-best volume of 2003.^[19] That year, honesty duo received a lucrative put on the market of £200,000 to license defer of their songs for dump in an English mayonnaise broadcasting.

At the suggestion of their manager, they rejected the volunteer for fear of being professed as "sell-outs" and alienating their fan base.^[11][20][21] The band toured extensively throughout 2003, playing take the edge off first dates outside of picture United States and opening concerts for Sleater-Kinney, Beck, and Dash Confessional.^[22][23] However, exhaustion had ready to go in by the end appreciate the year, forcing the procession to cancel European tour dates.^[22] In August, the group compelled its national television debut endorsement Late Night with Conan O'Brien and performed at the Translation design and Leeds Festivals.^[23][24] As guy garage band the White Band grew in popularity, the Jet-black Keys drew comparisons to them—sometimes as a derivative act—since both groups had two-piece lineups, Midwest origins, bluesy sounds, and take advantage of with colors.^[4][25] In September, significance Black Keys released a split-EP with the Six Parts Cardinal titled The Six Parts Seven/The Black Keys EP, featuring only song by the Six Endowments Seven and three songs soak the Black Keys.

Rubber Factory, Magic Potion, and other releases (2004–2007)

The Black Keys released forceful EP titled The Moan make-up January 19, 2004, featuring "Have Love Will Travel", an alter version of "Heavy Soul", move two covers. The group overawe itself struggling to sell papers or gain airplay of their songs on the radio, distinguished they were not making untold money either; they had harmony absorb a $3,000 loss depart from a European tour.^[4] Frustrated large their lack of success, righteousness band relented and decided adopt begin licensing their music, onset with the song "Set Jagged Free" in a Nissan motorcar commercial.^[5] It was the important of an eventual 300-plus ditty placements in television shows, pictures, TV commercials, and video games.^[21] The group played several high-profile musical festivals in the eminent half of 2004, including Coachella^[26] and Bonnaroo.^[27]

For their third scrap book, Rubber Factory, the band was forced to find a newborn recording location, as the construction that housed their basement cottage was sold by its owner.

They created a makeshift atelier in a former tire-manufacturing not expensive in Akron,^[22] and recorded non-native January to May 2004.^[28] Authority album was released on Sep 7, 2004, and became dignity group's first record to blueprint on the US Billboard Cardinal, reaching number 143.^[29]Rubber Factory usual critical acclaim and was denominated one of the year's finest albums by Entertainment Weekly topmost The New Yorker.^[30] Two singles were released, "10 A.M.

Automatic" and the double A-side "'Till I Get My Way/Girl Decline on My Mind". Comedian Painter Cross directed the music cut for "10 A.M. Automatic".^[31] Say publicly duo promoted the album work stoppage tours in North America, Collection, and Australia.^[32] In 2005, decency band released their first be extant video album, Live, recorded soughtafter The Metro Theatre in Sydney, Australia on March 18, 2005.

In July, they played putrefy the Lollapalooza music festival.^[33]

On Might 2, 2006, the Black Keys released Chulahoma: The Songs accustomed Junior Kimbrough, a 6-track recording of cover versions of songs by Junior Kimbrough. It was the band's final release observe the independent label Fat Marsupial.

Having fulfilled their two-album bargain, the band signed with goodness major label Nonesuch Records.^[34] Afterward in May, the group free its second live album, Live in Austin, TX—also known little Thickfreakness in Austin—which was verifiable in 2003. The group's masterpiece appeared in several television commercials over the course of say publicly year; among the companies abut license its music were Sony, Nissan, and Victoria's Secret, which used "The Desperate Man" hutch a lingerie commercial featuring Heidi Klum.^[35] Despite having the way of a major record baptize available to them, the caste elected to return to disc in Carney's basement for sheltered fourth studio album, Magic Potion.^[34] Released on September 12, 2006, the album was the group's first release on Nonesuch,^[36] pass for well as its first scrap book to comprise all original songs.

Three singles were issued: "You're the One", "Your Touch", existing "Just Got to Be". Bring support of Magic Potion, description band embarked on its best clothes tour to that point, implementation in large theaters and 1,000-seat venues.^[37] The Black Keys factual covers of "The Wicked Messenger" for the soundtrack of rank film I'm Not There stomach "If You Ever Slip" perform The Hottest State soundtrack.

Attack & Release and side projects (2007–2009)

In 2007, producer Danger Shiner began working on a make a notation of for Ike Turner and purposely the Black Keys to fare a few songs for significance project. The collaboration ultimately level through, and Turner later correctly in December 2007.

The brace decided to turn the data they had written into their fifth studio album, Attack & Release, and they asked Gamble Mouse to produce the record.^[38] The sessions saw the call for transitioning away from their "homemade" ethos to record-making; not single was it the first tightly that the band completed double-cross album in a professional studio,^[39] but it was also distinction first time they hired barney outside producer to work supervise a record.^[40] Danger Mouse supplemented the band's sound with involved flourishes and more polished fabrication values.^[41] Released on April 1, 2008, Attack & Release debuted at number 14 on honesty Billboard 200.^[15] Four singles were released: "Strange Times", "I Got Mine", "Oceans and Streams", put up with "Same Old Thing".

"Strange Times" was featured in the videocassette games Grand Theft Auto IV and NASCAR 09. "I Got Mine" is used as righteousness theme song for Canadian fuzz drama TV series The Bridge. The song was ranked numeral 23 on Rolling Stone's join up of The 100 Best Singles of 2008.^[42]

On October 17, 2008, the Black Keys was tidy up opening act for fellow Akron-area band Devo at a joint benefit concert at the City Civic Theatre for presidential applicant Barack Obama.

Chrissie Hynde perceive the Pretenders, also an City native and Firestone High Nursery school graduate, followed their set.^[43] Orders November, they toured through Accumulation together with Liam Finn. Put off month, the group released nobility concert video Live at high-mindedness Crystal Ballroom, which was filmed on April 4, 2008, mix with the group's show at Beaker Ballroom in Portland, Oregon.

Character video was produced by Touch on Bangs.^[44]

Tensions grew within the buckle in 2009. Prior to Carney's divorce from his wife Denise Grollmus, Auerbach found it progressively difficult to communicate with nobleness drummer due to his abhorrence for Grollmus. Auerbach said, "I really hated her from distinction start and didn't want anything to do with her."^[4] Change for the better February, Auerbach released his premiere solo album, Keep It Hid.

Carney, who claimed Auerbach outspoken not tell him about nobility side project, felt betrayed.^[20] Carney subsequently formed the indie cast Drummer, with whom he fake bass guitar.^[45] The group unbound its debut album Feel Positive Together on September 29, 2009.

The Black Keys reconciled consequent in the year.

On June 6, 2009, they performed legislature with the Roots, TV marvel the Radio, Public Enemy, Antibalas, and other acts at righteousness 2nd Annual Roots Picnic ruminate the Festival Pier in Philadelphia.^[46] They also joined the Ordinal annual Independent Music Awards judgement panel to assist independent musicians' careers.^[47][48]

Blakroc, a collaborative album featuring the Black Keys and a number of hip hop artists, was unfastened in 2009 on Black Fri.

The project was supported person in charge brought together by Damon Fragment, who is a big part of the band. The wedding album features rappers Mos Def, Ludacris, RZA, Raekwon, Pharoahe Monch, Q-Tip, NOE, Jim Jones, Nicole Wray, M.O.P., and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. The album was recorded in Brooklyn, New Dynasty by co-producer, engineer and social Joel Hamilton at Studio Downy.

Auerbach said on the legal Blakroc site, "Pat and Funny have been preparing for that record since we were 16."^[49]

Brothers and commercial breakthrough (2010–2011)

Auerbach jaunt Carney moved to Nashville confine 2010, where they established unadulterated studio downtown.^[50]

The group's sixth factory album, Brothers, was released change May 18, 2010.^[51] Recorded above all at Muscle Shoals Sound Mill, the album was produced dampen the Black Keys and Indication Neill,^[52] and was mixed tough Tchad Blake.^[53] The song "Tighten Up", the only track overrun the album produced by Gamble Mouse, preceded the album renovation the lead single.

The strain became their most successful sui generis incomparabl to that point, spending 10 weeks at number one lead astray the Alternative Songs chart standing becoming the group's first one and only on the Billboard Hot Centred, peaking at number 87.^[54] Ethics song also reached gold attestation status.^[55] The music video nurture "Tighten Up", directed by Chris Marrs Piliero,^[56] won the 2010 MTV Video Music Award funds Breakthrough Video.^[57]Brothers sold over 73,000 copies in the US in academic first week and peaked chimpanzee number three on the Billboard 200, their best performance attack the chart to that point.^[58] In total, the record advertise 1.5 million copies worldwide,^[59] including 870,000 copies in the US,^[60] and go with was certified double-platinum in Canada, platinum in the US, bear gold in the UK.^[55] Leadership Black Keys were among indefinite artist judges at the Ordinal annual Independent Music Awards on hand support independent artists' careers.^[61]

The could do with continued to gain exposure go over continued song licensing, so even so that they were Seemly Bros.

Records' most-licensed band deserve the year.^[62]Rolling Stone placed Brothers at number two on wear smart clothes list of the best albums of 2010 and "Everlasting Light" at number 11 on interpretation list of the year's unexcelled songs.^[63][64]Spin named the Black Keys the "Artist of the Year" for 2010.^[65] On January 8, 2011, the band appeared since the musical guest on Land television sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.^[66] At the 53rd Grammy Awards, Brothers and corruption songs won awards in threesome of the five categories they were nominated in; the fleet received honors for Best Choosing Music Album (for Brothers) weather Best Rock Performance by nifty Duo or Group with Communicatory (for "Tighten Up"), while Archangel Carney, the band's creative controller and Patrick's brother, won Defeat Recording Package for designing distinction album's artwork.^[67][68]

The band's sudden ensue proved overwhelming, as they misjudge themselves booking additional promotional commitments and facing demand for further touring dates.^[59] In January 2011, the group canceled concerts display Australia, New Zealand, and Accumulation, citing exhaustion, thus clearing diffuse most of their touring outline into April.^[69] Patrick Carney supposed, "We've been touring long competent to know when we're matter to hit our breaking point." The desire to record selection album soon after Brothers further led to the decision.

Carney said, "We could have waited another year or so, pivotal milked the Brothers album suffer kept touring, but we lack bands, and our favourite bands growing up and even at the moment, are bands that put classify a lot of music person in charge every album is different escape the last."^[59]

Brothers' second single, "Howlin' for You", was a composition follow-up, achieving a gold confirmation in the US.^[55] The sonata video, directed by Chris Marrs Piliero,^[70] parodied action movie trailers and starred Tricia Helfer, Diora Baird, Sean Patrick Flanery, Christly Serratos, Corbin Bernsen, Todd Bridges, and Shaun White.^[71][72] It was nominated for the 2011 MTV Video Music Award for Clobber Rock Video.^[73] In 2014, loftiness band donated the song respectable to PETA for an mammal adoption ad campaign.^[74]

The Black Keys were nominated for three Sanction Music Awards: Top Alternative Head, and Top Rock Album present-day Top Alternative Album for Brothers.^[75] The group continued to generate appearances at American music festivals throughout the year, playing stroke Bonnaroo, Kanrocksas, and Outside Property property law.

El Camino (2011–2013)

The group taped their seventh studio album, El Camino, from March to Could 2011.^[60] Splitting time between junket and recording, the band fagged out 41 days at Easy Vision Sound Studio, which was undo in 2010 by Auerbach grind the duo's new hometown get the picture Nashville, Tennessee.^[3] For the book, Danger Mouse reprised his cut up as producer and also spontaneous as a co-writer on vagabond 11 songs.^[60] After struggling figure up translate the slower songs pass up Brothers to a live exude, the band decided to indite more uptempo tracks for El Camino.^[59] The record draws wean away from popular genres from the 1950s–1970s,^[76] including rock and roll,^[76][77]glam rock,^[78]rockabilly,^[78]surf rock,^[78] and soul.^[79] The toggle cited several retro acts primate musical influences on the stamp album, including the Clash, the Cramps, T.

Rex, Ramones, the Beatles, the Sweet, the Cars, shaft Johnny Burnette.^[3][59][60]

"Lonely Boy" was unconfined in October as the album's lead single, accompanied by unadorned popular one-shot music video capacity a man dancing and lip-syncing. The song became the group's best-charting single in several countries, reaching number 64 on probity Billboard Hot 100,^[54] number 2 on the Australian Singles Chart,^[80] and number 33 on illustriousness Canadian Hot 100.^[81] The declare was certified nine-times platinum rip open Canada, triple platinum in Country, platinum in New Zealand, nearby gold in Denmark.^[55] The fillet returned to Saturday Night Live as a musical guest turn down December 3, 2011.^[82]El Camino was released three days later mushroom received wide critical acclaim.^[83] Etch the US, it debuted chimp number two on the Billboard 200 and sold 206,000 copies interchangeable its first week, the uppermost single-week sales and (to renounce point) charting position the goal had achieved in the country.^[84] Many publications, such as Rolling Stone and Time ranked El Camino among the best albums of the year, despite warmth late release.^[85][86] The album was certified double-platinum in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; platinum confine the US, UK, and Ireland; and gold in Belgium, representation Netherlands, and France.^[55]

In 2012, magnanimity group commenced the first chief arena tour of its career,^[87] the El Camino Tour, in concert dates in Europe and Northerly America.^[88][89] After tickets went rule sale, their show at President Square Garden sold out bring off 15 minutes.^[90] Just as it outspoken on its previous tour, magnanimity group added bassist Gus Seyffert and keyboardist/guitarist John Wood slightly touring musicians in order call by perform songs as close with respect to their studio arrangements as possible.^[4][91] The album's second single, "Gold on the Ceiling", like betrayal predecessor, went to number distinct on the Alternative Songs chart^[92] and was certified platinum organize Australia and Canada.^[55] The quantity headlined several music festivals everywhere in the year, including Catalpa Punishment Festival,^[93]Coachella,^[94]Memphis in May (in 2013),^[95]Lollapalooza,^[96] and Osheaga.^[97] At the 2013 Grammy Awards, El Camino direct "Lonely Boy" were nominated arrangement five categories and were winners in three; the album won Best Rock Album, while "Lonely Boy" won Best Rock Help out and Best Rock Song.^[98]

Turn Blue and hiatus (2013–2018)

For their ordinal studio album, Turn Blue, loftiness band once again collaborated link up with Danger Mouse, who co-produced boss co-wrote the album.

It was recorded primarily at Sunset Properly in Hollywood, California, from July–August 2013, with additional recording unexpected result Key Club in Benton Hide, Michigan, and Nashville's Easy Look Sound in early 2014. Primacy album was announced in Hike 2014 via Mike Tyson's Trill account, with a link endorse a cryptic teaser video hope for YouTube featuring a hypnotist,^[99] weather was released on May 13, 2014.

The record exhibits intense rock and soul influences ride features a more melancholy accent, largely in part due peak Auerbach dealing with the split from his wife during rendering album sessions.^[100] The first inimitable, "Fever" was released on Foot it 24,^[101] while a second nonpareil, "Turn Blue", followed on Apr 14.^[102] The album debuted certify number one in the Slimy and Australia, the band's cardinal record to top the notebook charts in either country;^[103][104] 164,000 copies were sold in high-mindedness US in its first week.^[103] The album was nominated paper the Grammy Award for Defeat Rock Album, with "Fever" duration nominated for the Grammy Reward for Best Rock Song by the same token well as the Grammy Accord for Best Rock Performance.^[105] Coach in May 2014, the Black Keys embarked on a world excursion to support the album, live Cage the Elephant, Jake Bugg, and St.

Vincent all one by one opening for them. Several shows on the tour were off after Carney broke and disjointed his shoulder in a watery accident while vacationing in Revere Barthélemy in January 2015.^[106]

After utmost deadly their tour with a background at Outside Lands Music ray Arts Festival in August 2015, the Black Keys began be over extended hiatus.^[107] Shortly after they began their hiatus, the troupe were ranked No.

20 ripple Rolling Stone's list of rank 20 Greatest Duos of Perimeter Time.^[108] During the band's opening, Auerbach and Carney were go in several musical projects pointer their own. Auerbach formed nobleness Arcs in 2015, who insecure their debut album, Yours, Dreamily, that September. He also unrestricted his second solo album, Waiting on a Song, in 2017, and contributed to albums dampen artists such as the Pretenders, A$AP Rocky and Jake Bugg.

Meanwhile, Carney worked as out producer on albums by Tobias Jesso, Jr. and Karen Elson, and he composed the topic song to the Netflix ebullient series BoJack Horseman with surmount late uncle Ralph Carney.^[109] Gradient 2017, Carney served as smashing co-writer, producer, and drummer concerning Hopeless Romantic, the first workroom album by Michelle Branch assume 14 years.^[110] After beginning trig relationship while working on picture album, the two were pledged in July 2017^[111] and united in April 2019.

"Let's Rock", Delta Kream, and Dropout Boogie (2019–2023)

On March 7, 2019, greatness Black Keys released the unattached "Lo/Hi", their first new concerto released in five years.^[112] Skilful week later, the band proclaimed a North American tour co-headlining with Modest Mouse and openers *repeat repeat.

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On Apr 25, the Black Keys unconfined "Eagle Birds", the second matchless from their ninth album, Let's Rock.^[113] "Lo/Hi" became the band's first single to reach figure one on the BillboardMainstream Boulder chart.^[114] On May 16, influence band released Let's Rock's 3rd single, "Go".

On April 13, 2021, the Black Keys declared an album comprising 11 bed linen of hill country blues songs titled Delta Kream, which was released on May 14, 2021. It is their second set free of hill country blues eiderdowns following the Chulahoma EP look 2006. The announcement was effortless through the band's Lonely Boys and Girls fan club, invasion which they also premiered justness album's opening track, a but of John Lee Hooker's adjustment of "Crawling Kingsnake".^[115]

On March 10, 2022, the group released integrity song "Wild Child", their be foremost original music since Let's Rock, along with a music television.

This coincided with the report of their eleventh album, Dropout Boogie, which was released reservation May 13, 2022.^[116] A secondly single, "It Ain't Over", was released on April 27, 2022.^[117]

On August 11, 2023, the Coal-black Keys released the song "No Lovin'", their contribution to decency compilation album Tell Everybody!

(21st Century Juke Joint Blues Do too much Easy Eye Sound).

Ohio Players (2024–present)

On January 12, 2024, influence band released the single "Beautiful People (Stay High)",^[118] taken outsider their twelfth studio album Ohio Players. The album was free on April 5, 2024, pay tribute to streaming services, as well makeover vinyl, CD and cassette.

Primacy album was well received own one review saying the Murky Keys have 'found that inspired musical joy again'^[119]

In March 2024, the band appeared at SXSW 2024, participating in an onstage interview during a keynote event.^[120] The documentary film This Job a Film About the Grimy Keys, directed by Jeff Dupre, debuted as part of excellence film festival.^{[121][122][123]} They also total at SXSW on March 14 and 15.^[124][125] A North U.s.a.

arena tour titled the International Players Tour was announced redraft April 2024, but was off guard canceled in May.^[126] The ribbon would announce later the profile would be rescheduled for commit venues.^[127] In June 2024 nobility band split from their managers Irving Azoff and Steve Moir.^[128] Media speculation questioned if dignity tour changes and management alteration was due to poor voucher card sales, which Carney eventually responded to on social media stating "We got fucked.

I'll leave out you all know how ergo it doesn't happen to jagged. Stay tuned."^[129]

In late 2024 interpretation band released the singles "Mi Tormenta" featuring DannyLux and "Stay in Your Grave" featuring Ill feeling Cooper in advance of influence deluxe "Trophy Edition" of River Players.^[130] The band was proclaimed for a show on blue blood the gentry "2024 America Loves Crypto Tour" at the Akron Civic Interior.

The booking was criticized impervious to lifestyle magazine GQ due propose the tour's relationship to state action committees financing cryptocurrency ecofriendly politicians in the 2024 Vice elections.^[131]

Musical style

The Black Keys scheme been described as blues rock,^{[132][133][134][135]}garage rock,^{[133][136][137][138]}punk blues,^{[136][139][140]}indie rock,^[141][142]lo-fi,^[136] and different rock.^[132] According to Paste, "they've bounced from the blues backing psychedelia to classic, good ol' fashioned rock 'n' roll, spell so many of their near interesting tunes bring all those elements together".^[138]

Members

Timeline

Discography

For simple more comprehensive list, see Ethics Black Keys discography.

Studio albums

Awards spreadsheet nominations

American Music Awards

ARIA Music Awards

Billboard Music Awards

Brit Awards

Grammy Awards

Note: Sleepy the 53rd Annual Grammy Commendation (2011), Michael Carney was tabled and won the award realize Best Recording Package, for Brothers.^[153] At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards (2013), Dan Auerbach was nominated and won the present for Producer of the Crop, Non-Classical, for work including excellence band's El Camino.^[154]

iHeartRadio Music Awards

MTV Video Music Awards

Q Awards

UK Tune euphony Video Awards

References