The Black Keys kick off their US tour tonight at the Rialto Theatre in Tucson, Arizona, tonight at 8 PM. Opening for the band tonight and through April 15 is Jay Reatard; for the remainder of the dates, fellow Ohioans Buffalo Killers open. To mark the occasion, you can listen to a stream of the entire album available now at rhapsody.com

The Black Keys' new Danger Mouse-produced album, Attack & Release, will be available in less than a week, but you don't have to wait that long to play it. More than 10,000 internet-connected AMI jukeboxes in bars across the country are featuring the album in advance of the release, so ask your favorite bartender if your local watering hole is one of them. Also on the jukeboxes will be clips from the "Strange Times" video.

With now just a week to go before the release of The Black Keys' Attack & Release, the Guardian takes a look at this "remarkable new album" and the band's Akron roots, saying: "Musically, the album is a huge step forward. Everything from flute to glockenspiel has been added to the guitar-and-drums set-up, and the sound has shades of R&B pioneers Booker T and the MGs, as well as the Beatles at their most psychedelic. At the same time, it still sounds like the product of two young misfits from suburban Ohio."

The Black Keys' latest Nonesuch album, Attack & Release, is due out a week from tomorrow. With much attention being paid to the evolution of the band's sound, particularly with the inclusion of Danger Mouse as producer on the new record, the Wall Street Journal takes a closer look at where the guys are coming from, with a visit to Pat and Dan in their hometown of Akron, Ohio.

This past weekend, k.d. lang's Watershed tour arrived in Portland, Oregon, for two sold-out performances at the Aladdin Theater, which the Oregonian sums up in one word,"wow," elaborating: "Her voice is simply amazing, controlled and powerful and rich, without seeming labored or strained ... She was simply outstanding." k.d. performs on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this Friday.

This week, k.d. lang brought her Watershed tour to the West Coast, starting with two sold-out performances in Seattle. The Post-Intelligencer points to "the secret chord" referenced in Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," to explain: "That's just what fellow Canadian k.d. lang seems to have found ... Watershed, her aptly named new CD, finds lang achieving an effortless-sounding blend of the personal and the artistic, while adding Brazilian accents to her resolute torch and twang."