Useless Keys recorded 6 songs at The Carriage House in Silver Lake, California with grammy winning producer Sheldon Gomberg over the winter of 2009.

[citation needed] Useless Keys travelled to New York in September 2009 to play 3 shows in NYC/Brooklyn including one date opening for The Rifles at Mercury Lounge.

[citation needed] The band spent 2010 and 2011 touring up and down the West Coast and Southwest with multiple dates in Seattle, Portland, San Diego and Phoenix while playing numerous shows in their hometown of Los Angeles.

Useless Keys has played shows with Warpaint, Band of Skulls, The Rifles, Free Energy, Light Pollution, Crystal Antlers, and And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead.

Useless Keys opened for A Place to Bury Strangers in late June and played a two night stand with Dax Riggs at Spaceland in early September.