The Black Keys Confirm Extensive North American Tour
Mar 14, 2019
The Black Keys Confirm Extensive North American Tour
Kansas City, Mo. (March 14, 2019) – This morning, The Black Keys confirm their extensive, thirty-one-date arena tour of North America. The “Let’s Rock” Tour will hit T-Mobile Center on Sept. 24. Special guests Modest Mouse will provide support on all dates, and *repeat repeat will open up in Kansas City.
To ensure tickets get in to the hands of fans and not scalpers or bots, the tour has created The Black Key Presale. Fans can register now through Sunday, March 17 at 9 p.m. CT for The Black Key presale. Registered fans who receive a code will have access to purchase tickets before the general public on Tuesday, March 19 at 10 a.m. local time through Thursday, March 21 at 10 p.m. local time.
Additionally, Citi is the official presale credit card of The Black Keys – “Let’s Rock” Tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, March 19 at 11 a.m. local time until Thursday, March 21 at 10 p.m. local time through Citi’s Private Pass program.
The Black Keys recently debuted the new song “Lo/Hi” (Nonesuch Records), the first new music from the band since their 2014 album, Turn Blue. “Lo/Hi” was written and produced by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, and recorded at Nashville’s Easy Eye Sound studio. Rolling Stone named the track a “Song You Need to Know” and said, “the Keys have officially returned, louder than ever” and the New York Times calls the song “the kind of garage-boogie stomp that the band never left behind.” Additionally, GQ magazine included “Lo/Hi” in its list of Songs You Need to Hear This Week and called it “a snarling and immediate little slice of heaven from the Ohio rock stars.”
Formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001, The Black Keys have released eight studio albums: their debut The Big Come Up (2002), followed by Thickfreakness (2003) and Rubber Factory (2004), along with their releases on Nonesuch Records, Magic Potion (2006), Attack & Release (2008), Brothers (2010), El Camino (2011), and, most recently, Turn Blue (2014). The band has won six Grammy Awards and headlined festivals including Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Governors Ball.
Since their last album together, both Auerbach and Carney have been creative forces behind a number of wide-ranging artists:
Dan Auerbach formed the Easy Eye Sound record label, named after his Nashville studio, in 2017, with the release of his second solo album, Waiting on a Song. Since its launch, Easy Eye Sound has become home to a wide range of artists including Yola, Shannon & The Clams, Dee White, Shannon Shaw, Sonny Smith, Robert Finley, and The Gibson Brothers; it also has released the posthumous album by Leo Bud Welch as well as previously unreleased material by Link Wray.
Patrick Carney has produced and recorded new music with artists such as Calvin Johnson, Michelle Branch, Damns of the West, Tobias Jesso, Jr., Jessy Wilson, Tennis, Repeat Repeat, Wild Belle, Sad Planets, Turbo Fruits, and more. He also created the theme music for the Netflix TV show BoJack Horseman with his late uncle, Ralph Carney.
Tickets for “Let’s Rock” Tour will go on sale to the public on Friday, March 22 at 10 a.m. at t-mobilecenter.com, Price Chopper Box Office at T-Mobile Center or charge-by-phone at 888.929.7849.