Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — Black Keys star Patrick Carney has sparked a New Year war of words with rockers Nickelback after blaming the much-maligned Canadian band for the current state of music. more info

ContactMusic — The Black Keys star Patrick Carney has sparked a New Year war of words with rockers Nickelback after blaming the much-maligned Canadian band for the current state of music In the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine Carney takes aim at Chad Kroegers b... more info

Chorus.fm — *The Black Keys* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/theblackkeys) will be on the cover of the next issue of Rolling Stone. And they're not pulling punches. In a recently released excerpt, found here (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cover-story-exc... more info

Stereogum — As you can see up top, Black Keys will cover the January 19th issue of Rolling Stone on the strength of their new LP, El Camino, and its critically positive reception. Given that shine, Keys drummer Patrick Carney doesn’t disappoint. An excerpt: Ro... more info

ContactMusic — The Black Keys think Rock n roll is dying because of Nickelback The blues rockers blame the fact a radio friendly commercial group like the Rockstar group have become so big putting other bands off from trying to be authentic Drummer... more info

411 Mania — LMFAO, Nickelback and more... more info

Mjsbigblog — Another week, another chart dominated by Canadians. This week, Michael Buble tops our partial HDD report with 37.17% reporting. With over 202K in sales reported already, the boy from Burnaby has nothing to fear from the boy from Stratford (Justin Bi... more info

411 Mania — Gaining popularity on the internet... more info

Metalsucks — No doubt about it; 2011 has been a pretty swingin’ year for music —the year I had kind of expected 2010 to be (probably because about half of the albums I was anticipating came out so late anyway…). New Limp Bizkit, KoRn, Nickelback, and Soulja... more info

Perez Hilton — Nickelback is probably one of the most infamous bands for a cult-like following of haters. While they obviously have millions of fans as they're on their seventh album, their critics are really passionate in their dislike of the band. But they don'... more info