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.

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,