The Black Keys ‘Peaches ‘N Kream’ is coming to Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood on Friday, April 24 at 8 p.m.
Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 13, at 10 a.m. and start at $55. Fans can access the venue presale Thursday, Feb. 12 at 10 a.m. through Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood’s Facebook, X and Instagram. Tickets are available at www.myHRL.com. Doors open one hour before show time. Additional fees may apply.
“Peaches!”, the band’s fourteenth studio album, is a visceral and raw 10-song collection described by singer Dan Auerbach as the band’s “most natural record” since their 2002 debut, “The Big Come Up.” The project was born in the wake of Auerbach’s late father’s diagnosis of esophageal cancer, as he was staying in Dan’s Nashville home, in rapid decline. Patrick Carney, Dan’s Black Keys bandmate and oldest, closest friend, knew without asking “that it would be good for Dan to have something to do.” That something, of course, was to head into the studio and crank up the amps.
In similar DIY spirit to their debut, the album was recorded with all musicians playing in the same room with very few overdubs, and is the first album mixed entirely by the band themselves since 2006’s “Magic Potion.”
The songs on “Peaches!” reflect Dan and Patrick’s obsessive record-collecting habit, which in recent years has escalated into an ongoing series of Record Hang DJ-set dance parties. These hangs fueled a deeper period of musical archaeology for both of them. “I’d look for 45s specifically to play at the record hangs,” Dan says, “but sometimes I’d find a song and think, ‘This might be fun for Pat and me to play live.’”