The Black Keys, whose new album, El Camino, is due out just four weeks from tomorrow, on December 6, are featured on the cover of the latest issue of American Songwriter magazine.

In the cover article, "The Black Keys: Brothers in Arms," band mates Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney talk with American Songwriter's Andrew Leahey about the heady year-and-a-half that has followed the release of their multiple Grammy Award-winning album Brothers, and about finding time between tour dates to write songs for the new album with producer Danger Mouse and put the record together in Auerbach's "gearhead's paradise" of a studio in Nashville.

"The hard work paid off," writes Leahey of the new album. "El Camino cherry-picks the best things about previous Black Keys records—the mix of ‘60s soul and swampy electric blues; the raw analog production; the psychedelic smog that floats through the background like wisps of pot smoke—and filters them through a smudged-up rock and roll lens. It’s Brothers on steroids, with denser guitars and faster tempos."

To read the cover story and find out more about those new tracks, head over to americansongwriter.com and pick up a copy of the latest issue of the magazine, on newsstands now. The album's first single, "Lonely Boy," is also this week's Lyric of the Week on the site.

To pre-order El Camino and receive an instant download of "Lonely Boy," head to the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders also include high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the album starting release day, December 6.