The Black Keys

Two whirlwind years after they last blew through First Avenue — and 10 months after a fizzling Roy Wilkins Auditorium gig that we’ll just label a rare misfire — the Black Keys make the well-deserved leap to their first local arena show. The Ohio garage-groove duo is alternating between a two-piece and four-piece on the tour and picking heavily from their last two accessible and infectious albums, “Brothers” and “El Camino.” Snarling U.K. rockers the Arctic Monkeys should also be well-suited to playing a bigger room. Read an interview with Keys frontman Dan Auerbach in Sunday’s Variety section. Chris Riemenschneider