The Black Keys peel back the lid on Peaches!, the Grammy Award-winning rock duo’s fresh dose of blues.
Dropping at the stroke of midnight, Peaches! (via Easy Eye Sound/Warner Records) is the Akron, OH natives’ 14th studio album, and third in as many years.
The 10-track project emerged following frontman Dan Auerbach’s late father’s battle with esophageal cancer, which was diagnosed while he was staying at Dan’s Nashville pad. Bandmate and bestie Patrick Carney had the bright idea “that it would be good for Dan to have something to do,” something to lift his spirits while Dan’s dad’s health spiraled.
The studio beckoned, and Peaches grew. Its songs are said to reflect Dan and Patrick’s obsessive record-collecting habit, which they flaunt at their intimate Record Hang, all-vinyl parties. “I’d look for 45s specifically to play at the record hangs,” Auerbach explains, “but sometimes I’d find a song and think, ‘This might be fun for Pat and me to play live.’”
In support of the new collection, Auerbach and Carney share the official music video for album track “She Does It Right,” featuring a performance outside of Memphis’s Hernando’s Hideaway, directed by EJ McLeavey-Fisher and celebrated animator Kyle McCarthy.
The Black Keys are currently road-testing new material on their Peaches ‘N Kream World Tour ‘26, along with renditions of early favorites “Busted” and “Do The Romp,” plus classic hits “Gold On the Ceiling,” “Lonely Boy,” and “Howlin’ For You.”
The tour continues through October with stops along the way in New York, Chicago, Nashville, Paris, Milan and London, where the band has added a third headline show “due to demand,” on Sept. 2, reps say. The support acts for the ongoing tour are all signed to Dan Auerbach’s own Easy Eye Sound record label.
Peaches! is the followup to 2025’s No Rain, No Flowers, which peaked at No. 52 on the Billboard 200, their 14th appearance on the all-genres albums chart, a tally that includes a No. 1 with 2014’s Turn Blue.
Stream Peaches! below.
