Black Keys Take Aim At Nickelback

Never try to be the biggest band in the world

Published 5th Jan 2012

Drummer Patrick Carney told Rolling Stone: "Rock and roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world."

Carney added: "So they became OK with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be s - therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world. F that.

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

(NME)