The Black Keys Blame the State of Rock on Nickelback. Update:

  According to The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney "Rock and roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world"  Carney commented "[Musicians] became OK with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be shit- therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world."

The Black Keys

  "Rock and roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don't like to see it fucking ruined and spoon fed down our throats in this watered- down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit."

  With people like Lady Gaga and Ke$ha threatening to make rock albums in 2012 and "save rock music", Skrillex teaming up with Korn for 'The Path of Totality', and Rap and Hip- Hop mostly dominating the charts over the last 10 years.  What will happen to rock music? Will it continue its current path or will rock again dominate the charts?  With what The Black Keys have been doing, Carney better be careful they could soon enough be lumped in with the biggest bands in the world.

UPDATE: Nickelback has responded on twitter. "thanks to the drummer in The Black Keys calling us the biggest band in the world in Rolling Stone. HEHE". Nickelback I guess chose to ignore the rest of what Carney was saying, that the band was "shit".



   The Black Keys' seventh studio album El Camino is out now.


 Rock music is definitely making a cultural shift,  but is it for the better?  Where will it go?  Let us know what you think.