Our signing event is now sold out! Thanks to all who participated. We’ll see y’all soon.

Surprise! On Thursday, April 11th we’re hosting a special Ohio Players album signing with our buds The Black Keys!! Wristbands are required* to participate in our signing and are available with purchase of the album on our site here and in the record store (come by in person for the latter). This is an in-person Ohio Players signing only and is not available for mail order (sorry, y’all). The band will only be signing copies of their new album, which is available here on limited edition Red Apple colored vinyl and CD. For each album ordered you’ll receive one wristband, so for 1 CD ordered, you’ll receive 1 wristband; 2 LPs ordered, you’ll receive 2 wristbands, etc. *Kids 12 & under do not require wristbands if accompanied by a wristband-wearing adult. Due to the special nature of this release, orders are limited to four (4) albums total (can be a mix of vinyl & CDs). Albums + wristbands are available for pickup at our event on Thursday, April 11th.

On Wednesday evening (4/10) we’ll email all who place Ohio Players web orders with day-of-event details.

The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, are back with their 12th (!!) studio album, Ohio Players, out now via Nonesuch Records. Preorder it now on limited edition Opaque Red Apple Colored Vinyl LP, available exclusively at indie record shops, and CD.

Ohio Players is The Black Keys’ fourth album in five years, a momentum with a simple explanation, Auerbach says: “We never stopped recording.” There was his and Carney’s reunion, after a five-year hiatus, on 2019’s Let’s Rock, then the 2021 blast of Mississippi-hill-country covers, Delta Kream. A rapid-fire follow-up of new originals, 2022’s Dropout Boogie, featured the duo working with outside writers for the first time: Greg Cartwright of Memphis rockers Reigning Sound and Angelo Petraglia, who has worked with Kings of Leon and the teenage Taylor Swift. (Cartwright and Petraglia are back for Ohio Players too.)

“We'd never worked harder to make a record,” Dan Auerbach says. “It's never taken us this long to make an album. We took our time and did it right.”Written by The Black Keys’ and longtime friends Dan “The Automator” Nakamura and Beck, the celebratory, joyful single “Beautiful People (Stay High)” is one of several songs on the album that feature collaborations between the band and various additional friends and colleagues, including Noel Gallagher, Greg Kurstin, and others.

“What we wanted to accomplish with this record was make something that was fun,” Patrick Carney says. “And something that most bands 20 years into their career don’t make, which is an approachable, fun record that is also cool.”

While making Ohio Players, a title inspired by the legendary Dayton, OH funk band of the same name, The Black Keys were also DJing dance parties in cities around the world that they called “record hangs,” spinning 45s from their own eclectic and growing collections. Mojo reports, “The spirit of those parties infused the album’s DNA. ‘That’s been the fun of it,’ [says] Auerbach. ‘Letting go a little bit.’” 

Due to the special nature of this release, orders are limited to four (4) per customer / household. On Wednesday evening (4/10) we’ll email all who place Ohio Players local, store pickup web orders with day-of-event details.

Orders for local, store pickup will be available to pick up, in person at our event on Thursday, April 11th. (You can read more about our event here.)

At this time we are not accepting orders for mail order—this is an in-person signing ONLY.