In case you don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of Very Important Music Beefs, let’s first set the stage. Last year, after the Black Keys won four Grammys for El Camino, a TMZ reporter asked drummer Patrick Carney if he was upset that fellow indie musician Justin Bieber wasn’t up for any awards. Spoketh Carney: &am...

It’s a big day for goofy promo videos featuring the Black Keys! First it was the Turn Blue tour announcement; now it’s the promos for their appearance on SNL this weekend. Below, watch Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach joke around with Charlize Theron and Cecily Strong. For a preview of the Keys’ performance, check ou...

The Black Keys are releasing Turn Blue next week — it’s streaming now! — and as monstrously successful rock bands are wont to do, they’ve just announced a North American arena tour that will encompass most of the last four months of the year. They’ve done so with a jokey press conference video th...

Two and a half years after El Camino, the Black Keys are now one of the biggest rock bands in the world, and their new Danger Mouse-produced album Turn Blue is about to come out. We’ve heard a pair of tense, nervy new songs — first single “Fever” and the title track — and now [...]

The duo release their new album 'Turn Blue' on May 12