The Black Keys will embark on the first leg of their North American tour this March, with 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. The shows are in support of their new album, El Camino, due out this Tuesday, December 6, on Nonesuch Records. See below for all of the currently scheduled tour dates.

Concert ticket and album packages for the newly announced March tour dates will be available via the band’s site, theblackkeys.com. Fans signed up to the official mailing list there will get the first opportunity to buy tickets on Tuesday at 10 AM local time before they go on sale to the general public starting next Friday, December 9. Additionally, The Black Keys are teaming up with Tickets-for-Charity to offer fans access to some of the best seats in the house. Proceeds will benefit Community Support Services in Akron, Ohio, and W.O. Smith Music School in Nashville, Tennessee.

In advance of Tuesday's album release, five tracks from the record are currently streaming here. El Camino is available for pre-order in the Nonesuch Store, the Black Keys store, and iTunes, with an instant download of the single “Lonely Boy” included.

In anticipation of the release, the duo will join Steve Buscemi on tomorrow’s episode of Saturday Night Live. This is the band’s second time this year as musical guests on the show, a “rare distinction,” says Rolling Stone. Other television appearances next week include The Colbert Report on December 6 and the Late Show with David Letterman on December 7. Moreover, the band is being featured on several MTV programs, including the week-long series Road to Release: The Black Keys, an interview with Matt Pinfield on MTV2’s 120 Minutes on December 16, and a live stream of their album release show at New York’s Webster Hall this Monday, December 5, exclusively via MTV Hive. For information on free tickets to Monday's Webster Hall show, go to Southern Comfort's Facebook page now.

You can watch the latest Road to Release segment from MTV2 here:

Produced by Danger Mouse and The Black Keys, El Camino was recorded at singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in the band’s new hometown of Nashville during the spring of 2011. In advance of the release, the album’s first single, “Lonely Boy,” was released October 26, to acclaim from fans and press; the song has been climbing the radio charts rapidly and is rising toward #1 on the Alternative and AAA charts. Additionally, the accompanying video has been viewed nearly three million times on YouTube.

“This is both a supremely confident record and a ridiculously enjoyable one," says Uncut of the new album. "A decade into their career The Black Keys have not only outlasted their more celebrated peers but outstripped their own past achievements. El Camino feels like the dawn of greatness.” The Independent calls it "tremendous, hook-laden, all-killer-no-filler, by some distance the most powerful, compelling rock album of the year.”

THE BLACK KEYS ON TOUR

* w/ Arctic Monkeys
† fan presale for this show will be December 13