The Black Keys' forthcoming Nonesuch release, Attack & Release, is due out April 1, but it's available for pre-order now in the Nonesuch Store. Visit the Store or click here to add the pre-order directly to your Shopping Cart. You'll receive the CD and be able to download the complete album at 128 kpbs or 320 kbps the day of the release at no extra charge.

The album single "Strange Times" is now available digitally at a number of online retailers; you can watch a preview video of it here.

Rolling Stone visited the band in Suma Studios in Ohio, where they recorded the new album with producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton). Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach tell the magazine about the roots of the record, from a proposed Danger Mouse project with Ike Turner, to what Rolling Stone calls

the first Black Keys record that rewards headphone

scrutiny, with enfolded layers of bass guitar, Moog fizz, bongos and

female vocal harmonies (from Jessica Lea Mayfield, a local teenage

singer discovered by Auerbach). Danger Mouse's dusted arrangements and

electronic touches are deftly incorporated, while Carney's drumming

sounds awesomely like Ringo Starr.

To read the full report from the studio, visit rollingstone.com.

Click here to pre-order Attack & Release CD with the complete album MP3s for just $12.98.