Kings of Leon
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Kings of Leon: Electric Ballroom, London ***
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 14 July 2003
THE SUREST SIGN that Kings of Leon are having a moment is the 180 requests for this show's 40 press tickets. ...
Crown Pretenders: Kings Of Leon: Youth And Young Manhood (HandMeDown Records) *****
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, August 2003
Fabulously fresh take on deep Southern white trash rock'n'roll ...
Profile by Max Bell, Uncut, September 2003
Lauded Confederate rockers with an R&B, punk-junk difference ...
Kings Of Leon: Songs of Experience
Profile and Interview by James Medd, Esquire, October 2004
Older, wiser and a lot less hairy, the Kings of Leon... rule. ...
Kings of Leon: A-Ha Shake Heartbreak
Review by Ben Thompson, The Observer, 17 October 2004
AS WITH SO many of the best second albums - from Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure to Dizzee Rascal's Showtime - the first time you ...
Kings of Leon: Because of the Times *****
Review by Ben Thompson, The Observer, 18 March 2007
It's not all their own work, but the lank-haired rockers' third set does more than merely ape their influences, raves Ben Thompson ...
Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, April 2007
After a righteous support slot on Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour, Tennessee's true band of brothers Kings of Leon are back with a new album, ...
Kings Of Leon: Because Of The Times (Columbia) ****
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, May 2007
SWAMPY RETURN OF THE "SOUTHERN STROKES" ...
New releases: Roisin Murphy | Razorlight | My Chemical Romance | Kings Of Leon | Arctic Monkeys
Review by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Guardian, 7 July 2007
Pick of the week ...
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 14 December 2007
HOW THE heck did Kings of Leon wind up at Wembley? ...
Special Feature by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 28 December 2007
GIGS OFTHE YEAR LOU REED: Hammersmith Apollo, London Critically mauled on its original release, Berlin – Reed’s 1973 masterpiece of drug-addled despair, emotional and physical breakdown – ...
Kings of Leon: The Best of Times
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), Spring 2007
TAKING AIM for the stadiums with their staggering third album, Because Of The Times, southern brethren Kings Of Leon have expanded their musical textures by ...
Kings of Leon: Only By The Night (RCA)
Review by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, 17 September 2008
WITH THE White Stripes facing an uncertain future, and The Strokes fragmenting into underwhelming solo careers, Kings of Leon are the sole survivors of America's ...
Kings Of Leon: Only By The Night
Review and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, October 2008
WHEN THE KINGS Of Leon recorded their Holy Roller Novocaine EP in 2002, they were musical novices ranging in age from 15 to 22, but ...
Kings of Leon: Only by the Night
Review by Roy Trakin, Hits, 17 October 2008
IT'S NO MISTAKE that two of America's most promising rock groups are from the South, steeped in the area's blend of goth, ghosts and guilt. ...
Kings of Leon: Brighton Centre, Brighton
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 3 December 2008
CALEB FOLLOWILL was in an expansive mood as Kings of Leon began their biggest British tour yet. "This has been one of the best years ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Daily Mirror, 12 June 2009
THEY ARE CURRENTLY the hottest band on the planet after their fourth album Only By The Night took up residency at the top of the ...
Good Old Boys: Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown (RCA)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rock's Backpages, October 2010
WHEN THE Followill brothers and their cousin Matthew first busted out of Tennessee in 2003 with the colorfully titled EP Holy Roller Novocaine, they were ...
Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown
Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 18 October 2010
IN THE RUN-UP to Kings of Leon's fifth album, frontman Caleb Followill fretted publicly over his band's swelling popularity. Sorry, dude: That horse left the ...
Joel McIver: Holy Rock 'n Rollers – The Story of Kings of Leon (Omnibus Press)
Book Review by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 25 October 2010
JUST IN TIME for the release of their fifth record, Come Around Sundown, comes the second biography (after Michael Heatley's Kings of Leon: Sex on ...
Kings of Leon: The Once And Future Kings
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, November 2010
These are good times for KINGS OF LEON: an imperial lifestyle, attentive fans in Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder, and the likelihood that, any day ...
Kings of Leon: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 23 June 2011
IT HAD BEEN pouring with rain all day, but by the time Kings of Leon came on stage, the dark clouds had gone – they ...
Kings Of Leon: Mechanical Bull
Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, September 2013
THREE YEARS AGO, things were looking distinctly bleak for the arena-filling Nashville rockers. Following a sub-par fifth album, Come Around Sundown, that singer Caleb Followill ...
Kings of Leon: Air Canada Centre, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 27 February 2014
WE ALL HAVE those albums that signify turning points in our lives and define us as people in particular moments. Personally, the last time I ...
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