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One almost feels sorry for Charles Thompson IV. Either as a solo artist under the name Frank Black, or Black Francis, or with his long time on again off again backing band The Catholics, the guy has been one of the past few decades’ most prolific songwriters, releasing many dozens of albums ranging from snarling punk rock to gentle Americana ever since the dissolution of the legenary Pixies back in the early 90s. And yet, there’s that ‘P’ word again - all anyone wants to talk about is the Pixies, a band with which it’s important to remember he’s only recently made just his fifth album. If anything, his solo work is the defining chunk of his career, and in it there’s a host of wonderful music that begs to be played live again. Freed from the expectation of a crowd that comes with a Pixies show, Frank Black gigs are often more playful affairs, even occasionally featuring something so un-Pixies as talking to the audience, or jokes being cracked. And though his solo work is often a gentler ride, there’s a constant menace to proceedings owing to the fact that his legendary howl is just one tiny flick of a switch from boiling the brains of all in earshot.

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Pixies’ “Doolittle” Turns 20: Frank Black on tour, reunion

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F or a band that went 11 years between live performances, the Pixies are feeling awfully nostalgic this fall. The gargantuan box set Minotaur (which collects all their albums, plus extras like a concert DVD, art work and other fan bait) is out next month, and in November they’re be celebrating the 20th anniversary of their iconic Doolittle album by playing the entire album all the way through on tour. We checked in with Black Francis — or Frank Black , as he’s also known — about why the band is looking back.

When did the Pixies start thinking about a Doolittle tour? There was some talk about doing it in London, but we thought, “When you do that, it’s sort of like signifying you’re officially retired.” So we kind of avoided that. We weren’t even planning on doing it this year. We got a call to open for Neil Young at the Isle of Wight, and as soon as we said yes to that gig, the phone wouldn’t stop ringing. We wanted to do some more shows, and it was a coincidence that it was the 20th anniversary of Doolittle and also that Minotaur was coming out. Someone said, “Hey, let’s do a Doolittle show!” We were kinda hesitant. We’re a little sensitive about milking the reunion thing to death. We don’t want to be seen as taking advantage of all the good will. At the same time, we are in show business and it is our right to go play — at county fairs if we want to.

How much rehearsal will go into preparing for the show? The only songs we haven’t played ever is “Silver,” which was done in the studio during the mixing period of the album. And we haven’t played “There Goes My Gun” in, like 14 years. But everything else we’ve been more or less playing during the reunion period. To flesh out the show, we’re going to do all the related B sides, five or six songs.

How difficult is it to recreate that music 20 years later? Well, fortunately, even at our most produced, say, Bossanova or Trompe Le Monde , we kept the arrangements simple enough that we could recreate them live. There are a few overdubs on Doolittle , like strings on one song, and I don’t know what we’re going to do about that, but I don’t think it’s required. It’s not Sgt. Pepper . Two guitars, bass and drums will suffice. Kim is the quality control. She goes, “No, no, no — you don’t strum it like that, you strum it like this .” She’s very persnickety. Which is a delight. It relieves the rest of us from having to do that.

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Why is Doolittle your biggest album? For people who wanted raw and primal, it fit the bill. And for people who wanted it to be sonically full and not haphazard sounding but sounding like it had real vision, it satisfied those people. So it was twice as many people. Before we recorded with Gil Norton, we made a little demo and I remember lying on Joey Santiago’s living room floor in his apartment, going, “Wow, we really did something special.” And we hadn’t even made the record yet.

Do those kinds of memories come back when you’re playing the songs again? That’s a nice, romantic notion that might apply to other people in the world, but it doesn’t apply to me. I could be thinking about anything . Mostly I’m tapping into muscle memory. You’re swinging your arm and holding your finger in a certain position and putting your voice in a certain position and you’re trying to emulate a recording you made a long time ago. You’re trying to find the right kind of nasal position so your voice sounds right. You’re trying to look like you care . I’m not saying we don’t care. We don’t do a lot of pandering. But we want to be respectful.

Why are so many bands doing these “album concerts” now? The music business is in flux so apparently lots of people are out on the road now. Like my old man used to say — he was in the bar business, and he said the essence of what he did was to separate the customer from as much of their money as he possibly could. What’s going to keep that customer sitting in my bar for one more beer? That’s what an artist’s job is at one point, beside the art part: How do I connect with my patron? The obvious place is the concert venue.

A lot of bands, from Steely Dan to Pixies, are charging more for these shows than their regular tours . What do you say to those kinds of grumbles? People say, “Oh it’s a money grab.” But those opinions are coming from people who aren’t working musicians. Musicians work really hard to get wherever you can get. And for every time you get paid a boatful of money, there’s a hundred times you were paid virtually nothing. It’s like someone saying, “You don’t have the right to go up there on a stage and sing your songs.” My response would, be, “Go fuck yourself.” Are we making more money? Yeah. But it’s not because we’re demanding more money. It’s because the patrons have converted other patrons. We’re going to fly first class and stay in a nice hotel and people are gonna carry my guitars for me. Maybe someone’s who’s really uptight and has as lot of revolution in their soul might have a problem with that. But I’m in fuckin’ show business, man; I don’t work for the Peace Corps. I don’t have anything against people who work in the Peace Corps; God bless ’em. But that’s not what I do or who I am. It has everything to do with entertainment and art and show business.

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By Joe Tangari

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July 10, 2007

For a guy whose individual records can be so willfully fragmented, Frank Black's solo career has run in a straight line. In the beginning, he sounded like someone who'd just broken up Pixies, and his first two solo albums-- Teenager of the Year , in particular-- are nearly on par with his work in the band. Then, Black settled into a sort of quirky classic rock phase with the Catholics, and has now spent the last several years in reflection, revisiting the Pixies with a reunion of the band itself and with his own solo re-examination of songs he made with the band on the two-disc set Frank Black Francis .

These past few years, which also saw Black trying his hand at the singer-songwriter game in Memphis, aren't accounted for on 93-03 , which covers the first nine albums of his solo career (plus a bonus live disc recorded last year that touches on some recent material). While the Pixies have been anthologized nearly to death, there's never been a solo Black survey before this, and it seems like a good time to take a peek back at the years between his times with the Pixies, because the straight line he's drawn so far feels like it has to branch off in a new direction from here.

The 22 studio tracks gathered on 93-03 (there's one new one from his forthcoming Bluefinger album, too) are arranged in simple chronological fashion, which makes his gradual migration from out-on-a-limb to the roots of the rock family tree seem improbably smooth. But it also underscores how much more interesting his youthful ADHD delivery was when compared to his present-day trad-rock performances: Where Teenager of the Year was wildly unpredictable, showcasing Black skipping from one far-out genre to the next, Dog in the Sand and Black Letter Days crawled with familiar rock tropes and felt oddly wooden. It's no accident that Teenager is represented  here by five tracks while the following four albums are covered in just six.

Track selection could've gone about a dozen different ways, since Black has no real hits apart from "Los Angeles" and the blissfully anthemic "Headache". The songs off his stranger early albums play mostly to the middle, focusing on oddball rock tunes like "Ten Percenter", "(I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain", and the immortal "Freedom Rock". However, opener "Los Angeles" is about as out-there as this compilation gets musically, with its faux-metal riffage and doom-stricken keyboard bridge.

There are a lot of solid tracks strewn through the disc after "Freedom Song" wraps up the early phase. "You Ain't Me" and "Men in Black", from 1996's disappointing Cult of Ray , are stronger than I remember ("Men in Black", for what it's worth, was originally a Teenager B-side), but the Catholics years are mixed to say the least. "All My Ghosts", from 1998's Frank Black & the Catholics , and Pistolero 's "Bad Harmony" both possess the manic energy that serves Black best, and the latter in particular is a great example of Black thriving in a pretty traditional rock setting. Dog in the Sand 's "Hermaphroditos", though it sometimes feels like Frank Black trying to live up to being old weird Black Francis, is nevertheless greatly entertaining, with its squeezed-out chorus and freaked-out verses. Still, some songs are leaden: "I Gotta Move" has an awkward call-and-response chorus; "Velvety", from 2002's Devil's Workshop , is as close to outright bland as Black gets; and "Manitoba" is a ballad with horns and slide guitar that points the way toward Fast Man Raider Man , with a melody that isn't especially suited to Black's voice.

The new song, "Threshold Apprehension", sounds like it may have been inspired by the Pixies reunion-- it's punkier and spazzier than anything he's done in years, coming off almost like a reaction to his mellow Memphis sessions. Black bleats and squawks his way through it like he might have in 1989, but the sonic character of its dry, straightforward production is closer to what we've grown used to in his work with the Catholics.

93-03 does serve as a nice overview of Black's first eleven years as a musical bachelor, and anyone listening for the first time should be able to get a strong sense of whether the album each track is drawn from might be worth pursuing further. Still, Teenager of the Year remains the first stop on any tour of Frank Black's solo career, especially for those seeking something closer to his original Pixies flair.

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Frank Black's Teenager Of The Year Revisited Luke Turner , June 12th, 2014 06:01

Jeremy Allen looks back to what just might be the high-water mark of Frank Black's entire career...

The cruelest trick a record sleeve can play on you is to make you look at it through fresh eyes. The character on the cover, the avuncular savant and elder statesman that you used to look up to with some reverence, is suddenly - horrifyingly - ten years younger than you are now, and a lot fresher-faced and strangely more handsome than you remember. When I say ‘you’, I clearly mean ‘I’. It’s difficult to say what I would have thought regarding the cover art for Teenager Of The Year 20 years ago, but there would have been no uneasiness and certainly no suspicion of regret back then. I hope I would have got the humorous irony; that this slightly overweight, balding grown-up is reimagined as prom queen. The debutante’s ball - so prominent in US culture - is a little lost on us on this side of the Atlantic, but even we can fathom that being one of the less popular kids looking in at all the favouritism and the frat boys and those Mormon smiles must turn your heart as black as bitumen. Maybe this cover is sweet revenge to Frank Black’s former detractors; like Carrie without all the blood?

Whatever the ideas behind it, it was Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV’s first appearance on the outer jacket, and it was his last record for 4AD. The second of his solo records recorded with rock veteran Eric Drew Feldman (keyboardist for Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart), this was a step up in terms of unfettered inventiveness, and listening to it now it’s hard not to feel it’s as good as anything the Pixies ever recorded, and possibly more audacious.

Teenager Of The Year might have been retrospectively pulled from a wreckage of antipathy by Pitchfork recently and held up as a beacon of ingenuity in its Top 100 albums of the 90s feature, but at the time it was seethed at for flying in the face of fashion. Released at a time when grunge had become bloated and the playful precocity and capriciousness was out of kilter with the genre's self-righteous, funereal mood. Twenty-two songs and many of them under two minutes? Guitar solos and outbreaks of cod reggae? Who does he think he is?

Pixies have been living with the expectations that come with early flourishes of genius for a quarter of a century now, and in that sense you can see why they held off recording a collection of new material for so long in their second life. The sheer force of ambivalence from hardcore enthusiasts just waiting to criticise anything that stepped out of the perimeters of their own compartmentalisation must be discouraging. The Pixies it seems don’t know what’s best for the Pixies. No wonder they said, ‘Fuck you’ for so long, until they couldn’t feasibly go on with the same circus of tricks for yet another round of heritage knees ups. Recent myth-making would have you believe the Boston four-piece were unimpeachable throughout their entire premier incarnation, but the way I remember it post- Doolittle , nothing ever quite measured up for some. Not the righteous Trompe Le Monde , certainly not Bossanova . It stood to reason that Indie Cindy would get panned, despite it being far better than anyone could have reasonably expected.

And flying solo, Charles has endured the brickbats and the sort of affronted derision that might make you change your name and move town, or even give up on the rock & roll altogether. It’s no wonder those latter Frank Black albums started to sound like Dire Straits. Thompson is also not given to people-pleasing, and you sense his epidermis is as thick as any antediluvian megafauna you might care to name. Like most obstinately gifted artists, Charles Thompson or Black Francis or Frank Black ploughs his own furrow whatever he might be calling himself at that time (but let’s stick with Frank Black from now on to avoid any confusion). His solo career swings from eyeball-slicingly sharp, to bafflingly banal, but you suspect that neither criticism nor outpourings of praise will deter him from his purpose.

Teenager Of The Year falls into the ‘eyeball-slicingly sharp’ category, and it’s also a hurricane of purposefulness. It’s the sound of ideas meeting with musical dexterity and then getting bored and moving swiftly onto the next thing. It rarely pauses for breath. It’s as lean as it is madcap. It’s as though it was all written and recorded in one manic episode. It’s the aural equivalent of the Mark E Smith book Renegade , in that it can be confoundingly conservative one minute and then brazenly outré for the next three. What’s more you can’t put it down. The Knophlerisms that would so define the later Frank Black albums creep in on tracks like ‘Speedy Marie’, but set against the sheer forceful exuberance of ‘Whatever Happened To Pong?’ or ‘Freedom Rock’, any muso muscularity is forgiven. Besides, the songs on this LP, one after another, just keep blowing you away.

‘Headache’ - the hit - is a fair indication of what to expect, which of course is to expect the unexpected. The tune is as deliciously catchy and Orbinsonesque as anything he’d previously written, but underlaid throughout the verse with a bassline that keeps ascending to denote pressure, it culminates in a remarkable chorus that sounds like pop’s most mellifluous migraine.

Songs come and go in quick succession, as does that warm feeling of recognition when yet another beauty kicks in. ‘I Could Stay Here Forever’ follows ‘Fazer Eyes’, and both are tuneful and vocally varied enough that they too could have been written for The Big O, the former especially. ‘The Vanishing Spires’ follows ‘Calistan’ which follows ‘(I Want To Live On An) Abstract Plain’, all of which make the heart swell with joy at the sheer ease Frank has with a tune when he’s in the mood.

Lyrically he’s as opaque as we’ve come to expect, aside from ‘...Abstract Plain’ itself, which threatens to let the cat out of the bag as he attempts to explain the mechanics of his weird thinking. It’s better when he just gets on with singing about Siberia, harvest moons and 'Yakety Yak' in ‘White Noise Maker’, and while you might have no idea what he’s going on about, it makes better sense than him trying to quantify the processes of his creations. Kurt Cobain learnt everything he knew from Frank, and in another life Edward Lear would have stood prostrate before him proclaiming unworthiness and André Breton would have invited him to join his gang. Few have ever conveyed sheer nonsense so artfully.

As for the arsing around, the subverting of genres, the merging of styles and ideas, well that’s one of the things that makes Teenager Of The Year so thoroughly enjoyable. “They tried to give me advice, down at the record shop,” sings Frank over a white boy reggae interlude, “I said, ‘Sit down boys, this may comes as a shock.’” Frank and his band then go into a pitch perfect Clash impression while he admonishes the snooty shop assistant bastards, and it’s as funny as it is vivid. The intro for ‘Olé Mulholland’ chugs along in a confused post-punk kind of a way before flipping and becoming a rock & roll tune with doomy, dampened chords and a resounding fucking cowbell clattering through it, while Frank growls: “Hey sleepy monster in the sand / Time to get up and have a drink." ‘Superabound’ begins like a saucy Pulp tune before it becomes a jaunty Fall number, and ‘Big Red’ is a dirty blues shuffle that’s probably memorable mostly for its unflinching simplicity.

Teenager Of The Year feels like a lost Pixies album in the way Ram feels like a lost Beatles album. It’s colossal, it teems with innovation. It’s as discombobulating and in many ways as impenetrable as anything the great man has ever done, and all the better for it. Indie Cindy might be a welcome return (well I think it is) but seek this out again or seek it out for the first time - because it might just be the highwater mark. Black Francis might not have all those tunes bursting out of his locker now, but they’ll never be able to take those teenage accolades away. He probably looks back at that photo with the crown and the bouquet of blood red roses and wonders where the time has gone as well.

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Come on Pilgrim is the greatest debut album by anyone, ever. Discuss. mungoslut

I will partially agree, at least to appear humble. But seeing as I’m not so humble … I was listening to Murmur by REM a lot just before Come on Pilgrim and that was hugely influential on me as a songwriter. I’m going to be cocky and say: we were even better than Murmur.

I’ve had many a pub argument where I defended my position that I’d take the Frank Black back catalogue over Pixies. Which are you most proud of? SpoctorDooner

I suppose I’m most proud of the Pixies catalogue because that’s what I’m known for. I’m glad for the paradigm of an actual band where everything has to go through a strong filter with a certain amount of compromise and humility. That can be difficult to deal with when you’re a young, cocky rock musician and still an idiot.

What was it like performing with David Bowie ? alyslinn

I was very nervous. There were all these other greats, like Robert Smith, Sonic Youth and Lou Reed, so I certainly felt the most junior. But Bowie and his band were very gracious and accommodating. It was his 50th, and what are you going to give someone like that for their birthday? So I re-recorded [Bowie track] Fashion, but using the original lyric, which I understood was “fascist”. My friend John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants brought some musicians to a recording studio in New York the day I sang with Bowie. I burned two copies: one my ex-wife probably still has, and the other copy I gave to birthday boy.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen? Porcinho

I used to have this dog who was fixed, so it didn’t have any testicles. And I had this cat who was also fixed, so it didn’t have a lot of sexual energy. They’d hang out on my bed with me, and often, when I would wake up, the cat would be performing fellatio on the dog. It’s not necessarily what you want to see before you’ve had your morning coffee. I won’t tell you their names because I don’t want to embarrass them. They read all my press.

No one in Pixies ever speaks during a concert – not even a thank you. What’s the thinking? thejungpretender

I have nothing against people who talk between songs. I’m just not very good at it. You become very self-conscious when someone’s tuning their guitar or there’s a pause in the show. It makes you nervous, so you ramble and make stupid jokes into the microphone. I’d listen back to early recordings; most of the time you couldn’t understand what I was saying, and if you did understand, it was stupid, so I just felt like an idiot. Kim [Deal, former Pixies bassist] was much better at talking to the audience, but when we got back together, she fell out of habit. Now it’s a better psychological place for everybody: for me, for the show, for the reverence of music and the gathering of people.

How do you manage to keep screaming night after night? Have you ever shot your voice ? eightyseventh

I used to blow it out a bit when I was younger, so I took singing lessons from an opera guy in LA, who taught me an old bel canto opera trick: to look like you’re delivering 100% while actually giving 40%. If you’re wearing an operatic Viking costume for four hours, that’s a long time to be belting it out. It’s the same in a rock band. I’ve learned how to hide the appearance of restraint.

Please elaborate on the inspiration behind Monkey Gone to Heaven . Virke7

I guess it’s loosely inspired by the so-called human dilemma of existence, our existential problem on whether we can survive as a race. But it’s told without any agenda or judgment and mixes in some very loose biblical, sing-songy things because, you know, “The devil is six and God is seven” rhymes with heaven. It’s a nursery rhyme with mythological folk imagery. In oversimplified evolutionary terms, we are descended from apes and monkeys, so they are the animal we metaphorically most relate to because of this evolutionary kinship. So that’s why it’s not a bird or a fish gone to heaven.

Do you believe in God? SimonBlackFromPoland

Well, as my father used to reply to the same question: we could probably talk about that all day long. I’ve always been interested in the UFO imagery that pops up throughout your oeuvre. I remember an interview where you spoke about a UFO sighting on the American Great Plains when you were a kid . PeterSaucer

The best reference I can give is a Frank Black and the Catholics B-side called Le Cigare Volant, which means flying cigar. There’s a delicious Californian wine called Le Cigare Volant, very similar to Châteauneuf-du-Pape – my favourite wine, although I don’t really drink any more. If you do drink, I recommend Le Cigare Volant from the north of Santa Barbara. Anyway: the flying cigar is the classic description of unidentified flying objects, and I did observe a flying cigar with my brother when we were quite young. It was broad daylight, very slow moving, very close to us and had no markings. I recount the story in more poetic terms in song.

What would visitors from another planet make of your music? Kevink2000

I imagine they would probably deduce a lot of information about who I was as a specimen of my species. They’d figure out how old I am, what sex I am, probably my age. But I expect they might find the music a little more distressing.

Have you discovered any music in the past few years that has really inspired you? PhilClements

The new Sleaford Mods album that came out last year is really fucking great. I listen to that a lot .

What’s your favourite album by the Fall? TheFall2007

I Am Kurious Oranj.

I was fortunate to go to two of your Brixton Academy shows when you reformed Pixies in 2004 – perhaps the best atmosphere of any gig I have been to. What are your memories? radiofour

The first memory that comes to mind is that we were going to do all of our big numbers, including Hey, but I wasn’t really convinced that I was playing the guitar riff correctly. Fortunately [Pixies guitarist] Joey Santiago’s brother Bob, who has performed with Pixies, was at the first show and said: “Yes, that’s because you’re playing it wrong,” and showed me how to play it. So I’m grateful to Bob for steering me on what was a potentially a small thing, but kind of a big thing too.

Know any good jokes? eendean

Here’s one I learned from my grandfather. What’s the difference between a duck? One leg is both the same. I don’t understand it either.

What is a debaser? JonBroster

I guess it means: one who debases. A debaser. It was an attempt to introduce a new word into the lexicon, but I don’t think it’s been successful, else I would have heard about it.

Kim Deal once gave a 16-year-old me a pair of your shoes after a gig in 1989. Do you want them back? ismightier

I appreciate the offer but they probably have value to the person who has them. They might be vintage by now! A Japanese clothing dealer once offered me $500 cash on the spot for my tennis shoes, but they had more value to me as a pair of shoes that day. You don’t walk around the big city in bare feet. I was like: “I need my shoes. Sorry.”

Are you friends with Kim Deal or do you guys hate each other? POlskiBus

I mean, we’re always friends. You don’t be in a band together and not be friends. I don’t recall when I last spoke to her, and I’m not very good at Christmas cards. We did a lot of tours together, we wrote together and we made all those records together … but nothing is for ever. You’re sort of damned if you do and damned if you don’t. If you don’t get back together, people say: “Oh, that’s a bit sad. What are your memories? What are your regrets?” And if you don’t break up and stay together, everyone says: “Oh, are you guys still together, doing that same old shtick?”

Have you ever written a song that made you think: “How will I ever top that”? JamesDonnelly

Oh, sure. Every time I write a song that I’m pleased with. I’ve put together about 40 songs for the current Pixies record. A couple of times I even surprised myself, but I think it’s a common experience in songwriting. You write something that you’re pleased with and your first thought is: “I just wrote the best song I ever wrote.” But to say “I’m never going to write another song that good” would be quite an epiphany, so I’m not inclined to make that kind of statement.

Have you ever felt like saying: “Fuck this shit, I’m going to live in a cabin in the woods ”? HomerGoetznutz

Sure. We all have our fleeting thoughts of: I never want to do what I do all the time ever again. I think we mean well when we speak to ourselves in that way, but it’s easy to have these kinds of epiphanies that aren’t necessarily that accurate. Where is your mind? upyerbum

The mind is less debated than the existence of soul. The mind seems to be finite, with a beginning, a middle and an end, and then it leaves ghosts and residue. The mind is not in your brain; it’s reported by your brain, so the notion is that it’s not actually your brain, but it’s not your soul or your so-called art either.

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The Black Keys announce North American ‘International Players Tour’

Tickets go on sale later this week

The Black Keys have announced a run of North American live dates for 2024, dubbed the ‘International Players Tour’ – find all the details below.

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The Ohio duo – comprising Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney – are due to play 31 dates across the US and Canada between September and November in support of their 12th album ‘Ohio Players’ (out this Friday, April 5).

Kicking off in Tulsa on September 17, the upcoming trek will also include stop-offs in Austin, Los Angeles, Toronto, Nashville, New York, Chicago and Detroit. The Black Keys are set to play two gigs in their home state when they visit Cleveland and Columbus.

Seattle band The Head And The Heart will be joining the tour as direct support for select shows.

Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time this Friday (April 5) – you’ll be able to buy yours here . Alternatively, various pre-sales are going live throughout this week.

Check out the official tour poster and the full list of dates below.

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The Black Keys’ 2024 North American tour dates are: 

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SEPTEMBER 17 – Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center* 18 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center* 20 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center 21 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center* 24 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena 26 – Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center* 27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum* 28 – Palm Desert, CA @ Acrisure Arena* 29 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre*

OCTOBER 02 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center 03 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena 10 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena* 11 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena* 12 – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse* 13 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena* 16 – Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center* 18 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena* 19 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena* 21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center* 23 – Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center 24 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena* 26 – Indianapolis, IN @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse* 27 – Knoxville, TN @ Food City Center* 30 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden*

NOVEMBER 01 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden 02 – Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena* 03 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena 07 – Chicago, IL @ United Center* 09 – Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum* 10 – Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center 12 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena*

* With The Head and The Heart

The Black Keys’ new dates will follow the duo’s UK and Ireland tour this spring , which features three nights at the O2 Academy Brixton . You can find any remaining tickets for those concerts here .

‘Ohio Players’ will contain collaborations with the likes of Noel Gallagher  and  Beck . The record has already been previewed with the singles ‘Beautiful People (Stay High)’ , ‘I Forgot To Be Your Lover’ and ‘This Is Nowhere’ .

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The Black Keys are launching their 2024 autumn tour in Oklahoma: What you need to know

The Black Keys are going to launch their newly announced 2024 North American headline tour in Oklahoma.

The six-time Grammy winners will kick off their fall "International Players Tour" Sept. 17 at the BOK Center in Tulsa. Produced by Live Nation, the coast-to-coast tour will go on to New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, with two dates in the band’s home state of Ohio.

The Head and The Heart will join the tour as direct support for select shows, including the Tulsa kick-off concert.

Fall tour to support The Black Keys' new album 'Ohio Players'

The Black Keys ' 31-city autumn tour will support their 12th studio album, "Ohio Players," due out Friday, April 5 via Nonesuch Records.

The follow-up to The Black Keys' 2022 album "Dropout Boogie," "Ohio Players" features collaborations with several of the rockers' friends and colleagues, including Beck, Noel Gallagher, Dan the Automator, Greg Kurstin, Juicy J and Lil Noid.

The album's lead single “Beautiful People (Stay High)" recently reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart and AAA Airplay charts. Additional singles from the new album include “This Is Nowhere” and “I Forgot to Be Your Lover.”

The tour announcement follows two celebrated performances by The Black Keys at South by Southwest earlier this month in Austin, Texas, where they also debuted their new documentary, "This is a Film About The Black Keys," to rave reviews.

Formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001, The Black Keys are singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney. After starting out playing small clubs, the band has gone on to sell out arena tours and has released 11 previous studio albums: their debut "The Big Come Up" (2002), followed by "Thickfreakness" (2003) and "Rubber Factory" (2004), along with their Nonesuch Records releases "Magic Potion" (2006), "Attack & Release" (2008), "Brothers" (2010), "El Camino" (2011), "Turn Blue" (2014), “Let’s Rock” (2019), "Delta Kream" (2021) and "Dropout Boogie" (2022).

When are tickets to The Black Keys' Oklahoma arena show going on sale?

Ahead of the North American leg of the tour, The Black Keys will trek to Europe to debut their new live show. Tickets for the UK and Europe shows are on-sale now.

Tickets to the band's North American tour kick-off show in Tulsa go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, April 5 and will be available online at www.bokcenter.com .

American Express Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 2 through 10 p.m. Thursday, April 4.

Tulsa ticket prices range from $59.75 to $199.75.

Aerosmith, The Black Crowes announce new tour dates. Get tickets to Indianapolis concert

The long-anticipated Aerosmith "Peace Out: Farewell Tour" is back after a postponement due to a vocal injury to Steven Tyler, the lead singer.

Aerosmith announced new tour dates on April 10, and the "Peace Out" tour, featuring The Black Crowes, will rock the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Jan. 16, 2025, towards the end of tour dates. The tour begins on Sept. 20 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and concludes on Feb. 26, 2025, in Buffalo, New York.

The tour, which kicked off in September 2023, was postponed due to a vocal injury experienced by lead singer. The band posted on Instagram on Sept. 29, 2023, telling fans shows wouldn't continue until 2024.

"To our fans: Unfortunately, Steven’s vocal injury is more serious than initially thought. His doctor has confirmed that in addition to the damage to his vocal cords, he fractured his larynx which requires ongoing care. He is receiving the best medical treatment available to ensure his recovery is swift, but given the nature of a fracture, he is being told patience is essential," according to the caption.

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The band posted again on April 10 revealing new tour dates.  "All previously purchased tickets will be honored for the rescheduled shows – you’ll receive more info via email. Tickets for the rescheduled dates & newly added shows go on sale Fri 4/12 @ 10AM local at aerosmith.com," according to the caption.

Aerosmith and The Black Crowes is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse, located at 125 S Pennsylvania St. in Indianapolis. Tickets go on sale on Friday at 10 a.m. Click here to learn more.