Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

DARK SECRETS: Dan auerbach - The Real Truth

"A welcome return to the cranked-up amps, distortion and rawness that first fuelled them." The Black Keys go back to basics on the revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined Peaches!

Blues rockers The Black Keys return to their roots in more ways than one

Louder

"It was a nightmare to mix, but we got it sounding raw and filthy." The Black Keys announce "primal" new album Peaches!, launch first single

The Black Keys have also announced two UK shows for later this year

Louder

"Once upon a time I was a kid making beats in his bedroom in Canada and now I'm here": Cirkut takes home Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at the 2026 Grammy Awards

The Canadian producer/songwriter also shared a win for Lady Gaga's Abracadabra

MusicRadar

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

“When I’d watch Meg and Jack White on stage... it felt really inspiring. Eventually I thought, what would it be like if weadded another drummer?”: How the Velveteers' Demi Demitro learned to speak through baritone fuzz riffs

With Dan Auerbach at the helm once more, the Velveteers' A Million Knives holds the brute force of low-end guitar and melody in equilibrium while two drummers pummel their way through the mix

Guitar World

We didn’t expect this rising artist to snag a Producer of the Year nod for the 2026 Grammys - but we’re glad he did

Best known for his solo work, Dijon’s up for Producer of the Year at the 2026 Grammys despite only contributing to a single project with another artist: Justin Bieber's Swag. Could he win it?

MusicRadar

“I asked if he had anything inspiring – he brought Gregg Allman’s ’66 Guild Starfire. It’s cool that Gregg played a small part on this record”: Marcus King on true love as recovery, being neighbors with Billy Strings and the Tele he bought while drunk

Darling Blue finds Marcus King getting the band together in the studio for the first time since 2018, putting together a little set of songs that did a whole lot of healing

Guitar World

“There’s a reason the music business is considered a slimy hellhole. Be careful who you trust...” The Black Keys are back and they're bruised

Last year, they cancelled a tour, their album flopped and they fired their managers. Can the Black Keys come back?.

Louder

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Chrissie Hynde announces duets album with Mark Lanegan, Lucinda Williams, Dave Gahan and more

Listen to Chrisie Hynde's version of Always On My Mind featuring Rufus Wainwright now

Louder

The Black Keys on their music industry nightmare: ‘We were angry. We wanted vengeance’

INTERVIEW: From botched tours to monopolised ticketing and vanishing payouts, The Black Keys are speaking out against a music industry they say is rigged. Ahead of the release of their 13th album, ‘No Rain, No Flowers’, the band speaks to Mark Beaumont about why they’re not backing down

The Independent UK

Black Keys praise Oasis for having 'transformed the continet'

The Black Keys think Oasis have "transformed the continent" with their reunion.

BANG Premier

Album reviews: The Black Keys – No Rain, No Flowers, and Memory of Jane – Unsinking the Cypress

The Black Keys sound surprisingly muted after experiencing one of their most tumultuous periods as a band, while Memory of Jane finds clarity on his delightful debut

The Independent UK

"A surprisingly vibrant, bright-side kind of album": The Black Keys sound euphoric on the dreamy 60s psych-soul sound of No Rain, No Flowers

Beleaguered retro rockers the Black Keys sprout fresh, soulful intent on thirteenth studio album No Rain, No Flowers

Louder

"The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires”: Steve Miller cancels tour due to... the weather

Is the guitarist a secret meterologist?

MusicRadar

Miles Kane is 'open' to a Last Shadow Puppets reunion with Alex Turner

Miles Kane says his "door is always open" for a Last Shadow Puppets reunion.

BANG Premier

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Guitar World

“My guitar was busted up on the flight – totally destroyed. When I got to Nashville and told Dan Auerbach, he said, ‘Try something new’”: After her beloved Gibson was ruined on a flight, Valerie June found new inspiration in this iconic acoustic brand

She was in the market for a new guitar following her beloved Clyde's demise – and, thanks to the Black Keys' guitarist and vocalist, she managed to find her perfect match

Louder

“Most celebrities are dullards. I met a lot of these clowns and you assume they’re smart. They are not!” Why the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde is one of the last rock stars unafraid of saying what’s on her mind

In 2016, the Pretenders released their 10th album, Alone - but Chrissie Hynde was showing no sign of playing the game

Louder

"We wanted to go straight to the source – into the room with people known for their songwriting": The Black Keys detail new album No Rain, No Flowers

Listen to the title track of the Black Keys' upcoming album now

Guitar World

“The original Jordan Boss Tone was probably used by four out of five garage bands in the late ’60s”: Unpacking the gnarly magic of the Jordan Boss Tone – an actual guitar plug-in that delivers Dan Auerbach-approved fuzz

It looks like an adaptor and it kind of is. But this cult fuzz box was a favorite of Norman Greenbaum and Spirit’s Randy California and was on more garage rock records than we’d care to imagine

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

"It was pretty shocking to understand what's actually going on": The Black Keys slam "mind-blowing" state of music industry in first interview since tour debacle

The Black Keys have released The Night Before, their first new song since cancelling their 2024 tour and firing their management company

BANG Premier

The Black Keys announce US tour months after scrapping entire North America run

The Black Keys cancelled their North American tour last year.

Guitar World

“Like Gretsch’s Duo Jet, it was surely spurred by Gibson’s success with the Les Paul”: The mysterious history of the Guild M-75 Aristocrat, the blue-blooded hollowbody played by John Lee Hooker, John Mayer, St. Vincent and Dan Auerbach

This evocative downsized archtop appeared in mid-’50s New York and would go on to delight jazz players and rootsy bluesers alike

Guitar World

Dan Auerbach is one of Ohio’s greatest guitar players, bringing blues roots to the mainstream with a major-league soloing and riffing style

This video lesson unpacks Auerbach’s rhythm and lead approaches – and mastering it could put gold on your ceiling

Louder

"If you're a band that ascends quickly into huge shows, you don't have the perspective to be freaked out by it": The Black Keys look back on platinum sales, Grammy awards, burnout and reignition

As pack leaders of the post-millennial alt.blues scene – until fame turned their hair grey – The Black Keys have rediscovered their mojo on twelfth album Ohio Players

Guitar World

“Some of my first gigs were before I had a driving licence, so I had to walk a mile or two to get to shows”: With the help of Dan Auerbach, Nat Myers is making rootsy blues guitar relevant again – and keeping the one-man ramblin’ band tradition alive

Nat Myers’ debut album, Yellow Peril, was produced by the Black Keys frontman – and it’s a modern-day classic of its genre

Guitar World

“I played one chord on that guitar and bought it right away”: How Hermanos Gutiérrez leveraged vintage guitar tones and Dan Auerbach's guitar tech to create a cosmic sonic palette on Barrio Hustle

Barrio Hustle is taken from the guitar duo's upcoming album Sonido Cósmico – and premiered exclusively on Guitar World

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.