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New Music: Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach Announces Solo Album Waiting on a Song, Releases “Shine on Me”

INDIO, CA - APRIL 23: Musician Dan Auerbach of The Arcs performs onstage during day 2 of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Weekend 2 at the Empire Polo Club on April 23, 2016 in Indio, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella)

A new Black Keys album isn’t on the horizon just yet, but the band’s guitarist half Dan Auerbach is releasing an album. The singer has announced Waiting on a Song, his first solo project since 2009’s Keep It Hid. Auerbach has shared its lead single—the brightly colored “Shine on Me,” which features Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits—through NPR. Listen below.

Waiting on a Song will arrive on June 2 through his new label Easy Eye Sound. Read the track list below.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FfVRCDb0G8Q%3Fecver%3D1

Waiting on a Song:
1. “Waiting On A Song”
2. “Malibu Man”
3. “Livin’ In Sin”
4. “Shine On Me”
5. “King Of A One Horse Town”
6. “Never In My Wildest Dreams”
7. “Cherrybomb”
8. “Stand By My Girl”
9. “Undertow”
10. “Show Me”