The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach Launches New Project the Arcs With Mayweather/Pacquiao-Inspired Single

Back in 2009, the Black Keys‘ Dan Auerbach released a solo album called Keep It Hid. Now, he’s announced the formation of a new solo project called the Arcs, who will release an album through Warner Bros., as Rolling Stone reports. First, he’ll put out the boxing-themed “Stay in my Corner” b/w “Tomato Can” single on May 2 via Nonesuch to coincide with the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight. It will be released exclusively at independent record stores.

The Arcs’ album will be released in the late summer, and features “a whole bunch of different people – my favorites,” he told Rolling Stone. “I just wanted to do my thing and get extra weird. I wanted everything to flow [and] be cohesive. A lot of the songs bleed one into the other, a lot like the Grateful Dead – my favorite records that they did. So I’ve got a lot of connected songs. It’s basically everything I love about music all wrapped up into one record – that’s all!”

He also said that the Black Keys will head out on tour (after their previous dates were canceled due to Patrick Carney’s shoulder injury) before the album is released.

Watch the Black Keys’ video for “Fever”, from last year’s Turn Blue:

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