411 Mania — From Kanye West's epic Twitter rant and the Black Keys blaming Nickelback for the death of rock to Feist covering Guns N' Roses, Lana Del Rey's modeling career and more, 411's Nick Krenn breaks down the Right, the wRong and the Ridiculous from the we... more info

Stereogum — This week the Black Keys insulted Nickelback, Azealia Banks dissed Kreayshawn, and Zooey filed for divorce from Ben. Everyone’s ornery from their New Year’s cleanses, probably. And yet Van Halen set aside their differences long enough to record a... more info

Chorus.fm — After giving *The Black Keys* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/theblackkeys) story so much press (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2570672), we have to at least comment that *Nickelback* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/tags/nickelback/) did resp... more info

Guardian Music — Figures show digital album sales passed the 100m mark for the first time in 2011Ten years after Steve Jobs promised to reinvent the music industry with the iPod, digital downloads have overtaken physical sales of singles and albums for the first time... more info

Gigwise — Band respond over Twitter... more info

USA Today Music — Patrick Carney, drummer for the Black Keys, blames Nickelback for why 'rock & roll is dying.' But Nickelback doesn't care. more info

411 Mania — He agrees with your negative comments... more info

Gigwise — Band say people became happy to here that band... more info

Starpulse — The Black Keys drummer 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 ... more info

KEXP Seattle — In The Black Keys’ recent cover story in Rolling Stone Magazine, drummer Patrick Carney had some choice words on Nickleback and the state of Rock in general. Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in th... more info