{"id":485922,"date":"2019-05-16T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=835929"},"modified":"2019-05-16T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:00:26","slug":"the-black-keys-bury-the-hatchet-take-hallucinogens-in-first-video-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/the-black-keys-bury-the-hatchet-take-hallucinogens-in-first-video-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Keys Bury the Hatchet, Take Hallucinogens in First Video in Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/black-keys-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/black-keys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_black-keys\" data-tag=\"black-keys\">Black Keys<\/a> spent five years apart before reconnecting for their new album <em>Let\u2019s Rock<\/em>, and during that time, rumors grew about possible friction between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dan-auerbach\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dan-auerbach\" data-tag=\"dan-auerbach\">Dan Auerbach<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/patrick-carney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_patrick-carney\" data-tag=\"patrick-carney\">Patrick Carney<\/a> (\u201cDid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-black-keys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-black-keys\" data-tag=\"the-black-keys\">the Black Keys<\/a> split?\u201d is one of the first Google questions that comes up if you search for the band.)<\/p>\n<p>The duo poke fun at any possible animosity in the the video for their new song \u201cGo,\u201d directed by Bryan Schlam (who has made videos for Auerbach, James Bay and more.) Auerbach and Carney, refusing to speak with one another, meet with a therapist before heading to a spiritual retreat, where they work things out, with help from&nbsp;hallucinogens. \u201cIt was great making this video with Bryan, particularly because it was filmed at the very type of place it is making fun of,\u201d Carney adds, referring to the spiritual retreat. Auerbach jokes, \u201cThe video was fun, but we still haven\u2019t spoken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s Rock<\/em> is out June 28<sup>th<\/sup> and is a return to the sound the band became known for: \u201c[It] packs considerably more visceral punch than their last one (2014\u2019s atmospheric, Danger Mouse-helmed <em>Turn Blue<\/em>) \u2014 from the AC\/DC chords of album opener \u2018Shine a Little Light\u2019 to the Blue \u00d6yster Cult-meets-ZZ Top punch of \u2018Eagle Birds\u2019 to the riff-y power pop of \u2018Get Yourself Together.\u2019 Rolling Stone\u2019s Brian Hiatt wrote in a piece where the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/the-black-keys-lets-rock-new-album-824198\/\">discussed their return<\/a>. \u201cThere are zero keyboards on the album, and Auerbach played most of the guitar solos live; he\u2019d simply stop playing rhythm and kick into lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fell right back into it, really, day one,\u201d Carney said. \u201cWe wrote two songs the first day. We\u2019re just fucking around, and that\u2019s what comes out.\u201d The band is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackkeys.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">touring heavily<\/a> behind the album.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-black-keys-bury-the-hatchet-take-hallucinogens-in-first-video-in-five-years-835929\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Keys spent five years apart before reconnecting for their new album Let\u2019s Rock, and during that time, rumors grew about possible friction between Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney (\u201cDid the Black Keys split?\u201d is one of the first Google questions that comes up if you search for the band.) The duo poke fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 10:06:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}