The Black Keys has parted indicates with its administrators, Irving Azoff and Steve Moir, subsequent the abrupt cancellation of the band’s arena tour in North America late incredibly final thirty day period.

First reported by the New York Periods, a representative for Azoff has confirmed the split, telling Billboard it was an “amicable parting.” Associates for The Black Keys and Moir did not react to a request for remark by press time.

On May properly 24, facts and information on the Keys’ 31-date Intercontinental Gamers Tour trek, which was slated to kick off Sept. 17 in Tulsa, Okla., and wrap Nov. 12 in Detroit, quietly disappeared from Ticketmaster’s internet-web site.

Two days afterwards, the band — which is created up of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — posted an update on X (previously Twitter) creating that they knowledgeable “decided,” subsequent a run of exhibits in the United Kingdom and Europe, “to make some variations to the North American leg of the Worldwide Gamers Tour that will help us to offer you a equally exciting, personal encounter for the two enthusiasts and the band, and will be asserting a revised set of dates soon.” No other motive was supplied for the cancellation of the arena dates, even though it has been frequently speculated that sluggish ticket income ended up to blame.

The Black Keys signed with Azoff and Moir in 2021 instantly immediately after parting with their longtime manager, John Peets at Q Key South.

As Black Keys followers await the promised rescheduled dates and/or refunds for the arena demonstrates, a solitary North American date continues to be on the band’s formal online web site: a July 6 common overall performance at NASCAR Chicago Avenue Race.

The cancellation of the Keys’ arena dates is the subsequent-profile tour cancellation to go down in the most current months. On Friday (May 31), Live Country declared that Jennifer Lopez knowledgeable canceled her This Is Me…Live Tour just a month prior to it was established to kick off in Orlando, Fla. The touring giant stated that the celebrity was “taking time off to be with her young children, relatives and near close friends.” Lopez afterwards launched her individual statement saying that she was “completely heartsick” in excess of the cancellation and that she “wouldn’t do this if I didn’t feel that it was totally important.”