Kings Of Leon hardly ever take a break anymore. Last year’s Only By The Night, the album that finally made them big in both the UK and USA, was released a mere year and a half after Because Of The Times. Now they have plans to once again go straight back into the studio after [...]

Posted on February 20th, 2009 by Max
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Seriously, since when did US festival lineups get so amazing in comparison with the ‘safe’ style of European festival lineups? Sasquatch takes place at the Gorge in Washington on Memorial Day Weekend (that’s the 23rd-25th May). I could ramble on but let me just list some acts of note: Kings Of Leon Yeah Yeah Yeahs [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2009 by Max
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The Killers are the last of the headliners to be announced for Benicassim, the Spanish seaside festival. They will close the festival on Sunday night. They join Oasis (Thursday), Kings Of Leon (Friday) and Franz Ferdinand (Saturday) as headliners, and also alongside Paul Weller (who should be headlining as well, in my opinion). Vince Power, [...]

Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by Max
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Oasis are leading the way at the NME Awards next month with seven nominations. Several hundreds and thousands of deluded NME readers voted for several categories, and alongside the Manchester band in terms of mass nominations are Kings Of Leon, who have four nominations. Best Live Band seems to be the most interesting category with [...]

Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Max
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will not be heading back into the recording studios anytime soon, but are also not on the verge of splitting, according to Nick Stern from the New York outfit’s management. He said that internet reports suggesting that the band were to call it a day were “probably reading a bit [...]

Posted on January 21st, 2009 by Max
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