The Black Keys’ class war on indie-rock  | Music | For Our Consideration | The A.V. Club

If you ask a random sampling of rock music fans about Nickelback,
many of them would probably say something like the following: “Rock ’n’
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.” Hating Nickelback is a
common “smart” musical opinion; it’s like preferring David Lee Roth to Sammy Hagar, or the first two Weezer albums to the last two Weezer albums. Yet when Patrick Carney of The Black Keys said those exact words in the most recent issue of Rolling Stone,
it was considered mildly controversial, but only because many people
(even those who agreed with Carney) missed the point of what he was
saying.