The Black Keys launch the first leg of their months-long North American tour, featuring music from their new album, El Camino, with a performance at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio, tonight. (Tim Doyle at Nakatomi did the poster, at right, commemorating the show.) Tonight's tour launch will be followed by shows in arenas like New York’s Madison Square Garden, Boston’s TD Garden, and Chicago’s United Center, with special guests Arctic Monkeys opening all along the way. A limited number of tickets are still available for a few of the dates.

See below for all the upcoming North American shows and go to nonesuch.com/on-tour for additional details and ticket links.

In mid-April, the band headlines two weekends at the sold-out Coachella festival and then heads out on the road again for the second leg of the North American tour through May. The Black Keys are slated to return to Europe, where they recently made a sold-out arena run, to perform at major festivals this summer.

"We have a lot of dancers. We hired Cirque du Soleil," Dan Auerbach recently joked with the Detroit News in a preview of the upcoming shows. "We're gonna have underwater high divers and stuff."

Actually, Auerbach set the record straight when he spoke with the Boston Globe about the tour—"I mean our audience knows they’re not going to get Cirque du Soleil, they’re coming to see the Black Keys, so that’s what they’re going to get"—the band's monumental year, the new record, and the forthcoming Auerbach-produced album from Dr. John, Locked Down. Read the interview at boston.com.

THE BLACK KEYS' NORTH AMERICAN TOUR