The Black Keys promised fans the canceled dates would be rebooked in smaller venues — as they’d initially been told by Full Stop. But “there were no holds on rooms,” Carney said now. “It was bullshit.” The band ended up canceling nearly $10 million in ticket sales. “We just had to take one on the fucking face,” Carney said.

Essentially as artists ... it’s almost impossible to talk about this," Patrick Carney said about ties between management companies and concert promotion. "You’re dealing with management companies that co-own festivals with this other company.

The Black Keys have given their first interview since — as the band’s Patrick Carney put it in a since-deleted tweet — they “got fucked.” As a refresher: Last year, Carney and bandmate Dan Auerbach scrapped an entire arena tour due to low ticket sales and subsequently parted ways with their manager,