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

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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

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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

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

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