The Black Keys’ Release Turn Blue in May

The Black Keys’ new album, Turn Blue, will be released May 13 on Nonesuch Records. Produced by Danger Mouse, Dan Auerbach andPatrick Carney, Turn Blue features 11 new tracks including the first single, “Fever,” which can now be heard at theblackkeys.com and YouTube. The single is also on sale—alone or as a free instant download with album preorders—at theblackkeys.com/turnblue; the LP, CD or digital version may also be ordered as part of ticket and T-shirt bundles at the band’s site. Digital pre-orders are available at iTunes.

The Black Keys will headline the Hangout Festival in Alabama on May 16 before embarking on an extensive European festival tour this summer. See reverse for complete track listing and tour details.

Turn Blue was recorded at Sunset Sound in Hollywood during the summer of 2013 with additional recording done at the Key Club in Benton Harbor, MI and Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound in Nashville in early 2014. Of the new album, the band says Turn Blue could refer to:

A: Suffocation

B: Sadness

C: Numbness from extreme cold
D: A Cleveland late night TV host from the 1960s named Ghoulardi

E: All of the above

Moreover, Carney comments, “We are always trying to push ourselves when we make a record—not repeat our previous work but not abandon it either. On this record, we let the songs breathe and explored moods, textures and sounds. We’re excited for the world to hear Turn Blue.”

This is the eighth full-length album from the duo and follows 2011’s critically and commercially acclaimed El Camino, which is now certified RIAA Platinum. Internationally, El Camino is Gold in Belgium, Spain, Italy and Holland; Platinum in Ireland, France and the U.K.; and double Platinum in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The record also resulted in three awards at the 55th annual Grammy Awards—Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Album. The band now has a total of six Grammy Awards including three in 2010 for their breakout, RIAA Platinum album, Brothers.

1. Weight of Love

2. In Time

3.  Turn Blue

4.  Fever

5.  Year in Review

6.  Bullet in the Brain

7.  It’s Up to You Now

8. Waiting on Words

9. 10 Lovers

10. In Our Prime
11.  Gotta Get Away

May 16-18                                                Gulf Shores, AL                                   Hangout Music Fest

June 20                                           Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany                            Southside Festival

June 22                                                   Scheessel, Germany                                   Hurricane Festival

June 24                                                      Zagreb, Croatia                                         Inmusic Festival

June 27                                                 St. Gallen, Switzerland              Open Air St. Gallen (sold out)

June 28                                                   Beuningen, Holland                           Down The Rabbit Hole

June 29                                                    Glastonbury, U.K.                                             Glastonbury

July 2                                                         Gdansk, Poland                                         Open’er Festival

July 4                                                     Pas-de-Calais, France                              Main Square Festival

July 5                                                       Werchter, Belgium                               Festivalpark Werchter

July 6                                                         Belfort, France                                        Les Eurockennes

July 8                                                            Rome, Italy                                               Rock In Rome

July 11                                                      Lisboa, Portugal                                           Optimus Alive

July 12                                                         Bilbao, Spain                                       Bilbao – BBK Live

July 15                                                        Nîmes, France                                         Festival de Nîmes

July 17                                             Les Vieilles Charrues, France                       Les Vieilles Charrues

July 20                                                        Suffolk, U.K.                                           Latitude Festival

(additional dates to be announced)