IS ROCK & ROLL A THING OF THE PAST?

Sure most of you have seen this article, from Rolling Stone Magazine interviewing the Black Keys, mentioned in some way, shape or form recently. If you haven't the article gives us an insight into the Black Keys stance on Rock & Roll music today.  Patrick Carney (the drummer) states  "Rock & Roll is dying because people became OK with Nickleback being the biggest band in the world".

He then goes on to say  "So they became OK with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be shit – therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world. Fuck that! Rock & 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. When people start lumping us into that kind of shit, it's like, ‘Fuck you,' honestly."

A little bit of an aggressively passionate statement there but we would have to agree. Okay Rock & Roll is not due a date with the grim reaper but their is a distinct lack of it around today particulalry in the charts. Compare that to the past when glories such as The Beatles, Bowie, Nirvana, The Who and The Rolling Stones were top of them. Now however you just have to look a little harder to find a rock gem. Tame Impala are a great example of a new Rock & Roll band. They are not in the charts, but they have a strong presence within the underground Rock & Roll community.

Maybe chart music should be for the charts and thats it. Maybe it's better that bands like The Black Keys, B.R.M.C and The Kills steer clear of being side by side next to Rhianna, The Killers and Ga Ga.

We would love to know your thoughts, will rock ever become pop again?

Our fav Tame Impala song...