Black keys

The Black Keys brought day one of this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to close last night (April 13). The California event, which is running with the same three-day bill on two consecutive weekends this year, got off to a wet and windy start.

The Black Keys will feature on a brand new episode of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain's cult travel show No Reservations. In an episode dedicated to Kansas City, Bourdain has lunch with the band at a place called Woodyard Bar-B-Que. The duo pick him up in the van from the cover their most recent album, El Camino, which Bourdain jokingly calls a "van of death and possible dismemberment". The programme will air in the United States on April 16 at 9pm (ET).

The Black Keys' frontman Dan Auerbach is set to produce the new album from Los Angeles based garage rock solo artist Hanni El Khatib.

The Black Keys' Patrick Carney has claimed that he only talks "shit" in interviews to entertain his bandmate, singer Dan Auerbach.

The Black Keys have apologised to Nickleback for calling them shit in an interview with Rolling Stone earlier this year.

The Cure, The Black Keys and The Gaslight Anthem are among the bands confirmed for this summer's Reading And Leeds Festivals.

The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach has said that people who argue that rock'n'roll is dying are "stupid".

The collaboration between The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Michael Kiwanuka has been posted online – scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to listen.

The Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach has admitted that it used to "piss" him off that his band weren't bigger.

The Black Keys' frontman Dan Auerbach has said that he doesn't 'really care' if rock music dies out.