THE BLACK KEYS FT. ALICE COOPER – “STAY IN YOUR GRAVE”

GRAMMY Award-winning rock duo The Black Keys release new song “Stay in Your Grave” featuring rock legend Alice Cooper, the second release off of the upcoming expanded version of their latest album, Ohio Players. With eerie guitar riffs and spooky background vocals, “Stay in Your Grave” arrives right on time just before Halloween – listen here. The new song follows this month’s first release from the expanded version, “Mi Tormenta” featuring regional Mexican star DannyLux. This expanded edition of the band’s twelfth studio album is a two LP set, in a gatefold jacket, with four additional tracks, an alternate cover, and new album sequencing.

Accompanying the release of “Stay in Your Grave” is an official visualizer co-directed by Corey Bost and Ali Gomez, featuring  a newly shot live performance of Dan and Patrick in macabre attire that’s intercut with footage from classic horror films – watch here. Still to come are more new tracks, among them being one that features Grammy Award-winning artist Beck. See an official full tracklist below.

There also will be an exclusive Amazon edition of Ohio Players (Trophy Edition), pressed on purple vinyl and including the Amazon Music Original bonus track “Let Love Take Its Time.” This is the first time that Amazon Music has released an Amazon Music Original track digitally and on vinyl simultaneously.

As previously announced, The Black Keys are heading to Latin America in the spring of 2025, bringing their International Players Tour to Lima, Peru; Estereo Picnic festival in Bogota, Colombia; and Mexico City (full schedule below). Tickets are available here. 

2025 International Players Tour Dates:

March 27  – Lima, Peru – Arena 1

March 29  – Bogota, Colombia – Estereo Picnic Festival

April 2 – Mexico City, Mexico – Pepsi Center  

Upon release in April 2024, The Black Keys secured the #1 Current Rock Album and #1 Current Alternative Album in US sales with their twelfth studio album Ohio Players. The album soared to the #5 debut of the week on both Billboard’s Top Rock Albums Chart and Top Alternative Albums Chart and secured the #4 spot on Overall Current Album Sales.Ohio Players earned The Black Keys their sixth consecutive top 20 album in the UK, and also made it into the top 20 in other international markets such as Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, and more. 

The album, which was inspired by band members Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney’s recent “record hang” parties, garnered praise fromRolling Stone, which stated, “Whether they set their retro-rock wayback machine to Memphis in the Sixties, the Midwest in the Seventies, or Manchester, England, and L.A. in the Nineties, it all flows together like a beautifully paced DJ set,” calling the album “arguably the sharpest collection of songs the Keys have come up with.” Ohio Players marked an exciting departure from The Black Keys’ prior releases, as the album brings in new and fresh influences while also still containing the widely loved sound that the duo is most known for. With an emphasis on collaboration, the album features contributions from friends and colleagues, including Beck, Noel Gallagher, Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, Greg Kurstin, Juicy J, Lil Noid, and others.

Ohio Players (Trophy Edition) Tracklist:

1. This Is Nowhere

2. Don’t Let Me Go

3. Beautiful People (Stay High)

4. On The Game

5. Sin City *

6. Candy And Her Friends (feat. Lil Noid)

7. Read Em And Weep

8. I Forgot To Be Your Lover

9. Only Love Matters

10. Every Time You Leave

11. Mi Tormenta (feat. DannyLux) *

12. You’ll Pay

13. Paper Crown (feat. Beck and Juicy J)

14. Live Till I Die

15. Stay in Your Grave (feat. Alice Cooper) *

16. Please Me (Till I’m Satisfied)

17. Fever Tree

18. I’m With The Band (feat. Beck) *

 

*Previously unreleased