When The Black Keys pulled the plug on their big North American run in 2024, it was the kind of career speed bump you do not usually see from a band with arena level history. At the time, there was no detailed public explanation, but the story quickly hardened into a familiar modern touring narrative: dates that looked too big, tickets that did not move fast enough, and a plan that could not survive contact with reality. By early 2025, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach were no longer dodging it. Coverage tied the cancellation to weak ticket sales, with Carney later pointing blame at poor planning and decisions made by their management, Full Stop, which the band split with in the wake of the fallout.
That context is what makes today’s announcement feel like more than just another tour email. The Black Keys are officially back with the Peaches ’N Kream World Tour ’26, a long run across North America and Europe that begins in late April and stretches deep into the year, built around a new album. The tour is framed as a full scale reset, but the routing also reads like a response to what went wrong last time: a mix of theaters, clubs, festivals, and selective larger rooms instead of an all in arena posture.
Pitchfork reports the tour is tied to a new record, Peaches!, due May 1 via Easy Eye Sound and Warner, with the trek running from late April through roughly six months across North America and Europe. Pollstar likewise frames it as a major world tour that starts in Florida on April 24 and runs into mid October, emphasizing the scope and the timing. The band’s official site also now lists 2026 dates, reinforcing that this rollout is real and already in motion.
Support shifts by date, and the package has a curated, road tested feel rather than a single giant opener trying to keep up. Pitchfork’s itinerary notes different supports across the run, including Miles Kane, Sunny Day Real Estate, Thrice, Motion City Soundtrack, and others, depending on the city. It is the kind of lineup architecture that signals experience, and maybe a little humility, after a year where the band had to publicly absorb an expensive lesson about scale, pricing, and how touring math works in 2026.
If the last cycle exposed the limits of cruising on legacy momentum, Peaches ’N Kream looks like an attempt to rebuild trust the old fashioned way: make the shows make sense, put the band in rooms where the energy carries, and let the music do the convincing. The Black Keys have been here long enough to know that a tour is not just a victory lap. It is a referendum. This one starts with the memory of a stumble, which is exactly why people are going to watch it closely.
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