Kings Of Leon have nearly finished recording the follow-up to 2007's 'Because Of The Times'. The band have been laying down tracks in a Nashville studio for the new album, slated for a September release.
Frontman Caleb Followill quipped that the pills he's been taking following surgery to repair his arm from a fistfight with his brother Nathan may have played a role in the new album.
“I don’t know if it was the pills or what, but the melodies were so much stronger than anything I’ve ever done — it’s just really beautiful songs,” he said.
“I know I sound like a fucking cock right now, but this is the first time I’ve really been proud of myself, track for track," he told Rolling Stone.
The band have also reportedly been hitting the bottle for a bit of inspiration. “We had to get drunk because we all have girlfriends to go home to and deal with,” Caleb said.
Song titles includes 'Cold Desert' and 'Crawl', a track with political overtones. “Let’s just say that Sean Penn is gonna like us more,” he said.
Kings Of Leon will take a break from the studio to play a handful of live dates opening for Pearl Jam, beginning tonight (June 11) in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Kings Of Leon have revealed the details of their highly anticipated forthcoming album.
'Only By The Night' - the band's fourth studio album - is due out on September 22 in the UK and the following day in the US.
The Followill clan have been working on the follow-up to 2007's 'Because Of The Times' in Nashville's Blackbird Studios. The band co-produced the album with Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King.
Kings Of Leon: 'We almost didn't make a fourth album'
Jul 11, 2008
Kings Of Leon have revealed that they were not initially planning to release a new album in 2008, but changed their mind when they were offered a headline slot at the Glastonbury festival.
Frontman Caleb Folowill told NME.COM that his band had opriginally planned to take time off, but after the Glastonbury offer came in they decided to continue momentum after the show and make sure they had an album to release.
The band are set to release their fourth album, 'Only By The Night', in September.
"We were at the end of our tour and we were going to take a load of time off," Folowill said. "But then we got the call and we were like, 'Fuck! We should probably be putting out a record'.
"We don't like seeing other bands go to the top," he added. "We're scared if we take too much time off we'll forget how to do it."
The first track from the Kings Of Leon's new album will be available to download for free exclusively through NME.COM today (July 28).
If you click here from after 3pm you can get 'Crawl' for free.
The track is is the first song to be taken from the band's fourth album 'Only By The Night' (out September 22), and it was the opening track in Kings Of Leon's set at this year's Glastonbury Festival.
'Crawl' will only be available as a free download for a limited time.
The song will be available to download exclusively from NME.COM between 3-5pm (BST) today.
"We took some risks but you have to make a record you're pleased with, you can't worry about anybody else," explained frontman Caleb Followill of the record which sees the band embracing a bigger sound, as showcased on track 'Crawl', which the band gave away as a free download with NME.COM last week.
The first single from the album will be 'Sex On Fire' - out September 15 (download from September 8) - though the singer admitted the unexpected title came about by accident.
"I just had this melody and I didn't know what to say, and one day I just sang 'this sex is on fire' and I laughed and the other guys are like 'what are you laughing at?'," he recalled. "I thought it was terrible, but they were like 'It's good, it's got a hook'. I was like 'Fuck off!' but I ended up writing it. There's an element of sex that's expected in our songs, so I tried to wrap it all up in one song."
Kings Of Leon have announced a tour of North America to coincide with the release of their forthcoming album ‘Only By The Night’, scheduled to be released in September.
In addition, the band have announced an intimate show at New York’s Webster Hall on September 23 to celebrate the release of the record, which comes out that day.
We Are Scientists will provide main support on all dates except Webster Hall, with The Whigs and The Stills sharing opening duties.
The first single from the album ‘Sex On Fire’ comes out via iTunes next week, and is currently streaming on Myspace and on the band’s official website.
From September 1, the band will upload a video each day to their website that documents the making of the new album. A total of 23 videos will feature, one for each day leading up to the album’s release.
Meanwhile, the band will perform at All Points West in New Jersey this Saturday (August 9).
The dates are:
New York, NY Webster Hall (September 23) Las Vegas, NVThe Joint (October 11) San Diego, CAHouse of Blues (12) Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theatre (15) San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre (17, 18) Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre (20) Portland, OR Schnitzer Hall (21) Denver, CO The Fillmore Auditorium (23) Austin, TX Austin Music Hall (25) Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Events Center (26) Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater (28) Dallas, TX Palladium Ballroom (29) Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom (31) Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre (November 1) St. Louis, MO The Pageant (3) Milwaukee, WIThe Eagles Ballroom (5) Toronto, ONT Kool Haus (7) Detroit, MI The Fillmore (8) Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall (10) Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre (12) Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory Ballroom (15) Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle (18) Nashville, TN Nashville Municipal Auditorium (19)
Kings Of Leon have slammed fans who bootleg their gigs and release live show recordings online, saying it holds them back from playing as much new material live as they would like to.
Guitarist Matthew Followill told BBC 6music that ideally his band would like to play more new material sooner than they have, but fears that recordings of unreleased material may be posted online made them hold back.
Kings Of Leon played a show at the London Brixton Academy last night (August 14), playing some songs from their forthcoming new album, 'Only By The Night'.
"It's difficult when you make a new record and you wanna play all the new songs live," he said. "But with technology these days, there'll be someone out there with a recorder and it kinda spoils it for us."
"You don't wanna play too many new songs because otherwise they'll be on YouTube or something," he continued. "So we have to pick and choose. If it was up to us we'd play all the new songs because they're so fun to play."
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Kings Of Leon have slammed fans who bootleg their gigs and release live show recordings online, saying it holds them back from playing as much new material live as they would like to.
Guitarist Matthew Followill told BBC 6music that ideally his band would like to play more new material sooner than they have, but fears that recordings of unreleased material may be posted online made them hold back.
What a stupid fear. The playing of new material and subsequent posting of said material only serves to get people excited for the new record. If the songs are even remotely decent, people will be salivating with anticipation, waiting to hear the studio versions. This stuff gets fans talking about the new album well in advance of release.
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there attitude is the exact OPPOSITE of radiohead & ryan adams' who seems to positively DEMAND folks record their gigs
& I definitely agree that it only adds to the excitement of a new release for me.. my whole cynicism for the verve reforming, for instance, was turned by hearing "love is noise" live.
On the plus side, "crawl" & "sex on fire" sound like tracks that belong to yet another very, very good album. 'because of the times' was my album of the year, so this is shaping up to be reeeeeal exciting.
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Sex on Fire is a good track; good energy. Crawl's got a pretty nasty groove. I quite like it. Both make me hopeful for the new record (though they do lack the skungy, dirty sound I liked so much on Times).
Kings Of Leon are previewing their forthcoming new album 'Only By The Night' with a series of exclusive home movies.
The band are unveiling one of the up-close-and-personal videos each day in the lead up to the release of their fourth album, which is out on September 22.
Premiering on the Kings Of Leon website, the 23 'Webisodes' promise to take fans into Kings Of Leon's private world.
Fly-on-the-wall footage includes insights into the new album sessions, the video shoot for recent single 'Sex On Fire' as well as a sing-along with the Followill brothers' mother, and an introduction to Grandfather Leon.
Additionally, the home movie footage has been edited together to form a music video for album track 'Crawl', which will be bundled together with the deluxe version of the album on iTunes.
Kings Of Leon have admitted they nearly didn't bother recording 'Sex On Fire' because they thought it was "terrible".
Speaking to NME.COM about the track, which was released this week (September 8), singer Caleb Followill said he initially had serious doubts about whether he'd even bother to finish writing it.
"I just had this melody and I didn't know what to say. Then one day I just sang "this sex is on fire" and I laughed. I thought it was terrible, but the rest of the band were like, 'it's good, it's got a hook'. I was like 'fuck off!' but I ended up writing it," he said.
He also went to explain the inspiration behind the song's sex-themed lyrics.
"There's an element of sex that's expected in our songs so I tried to wrap it all up in one song. If you read the lyrics you'll find it's got some quite visual lyrics in it. It's a pretty sexy song actually, but I knew after writing 'Sex On Fire', I couldn't write verses about making out, or going to the movie theatre with a girl," he said.
Kings Of Leon have revealed that avoiding drugs and girls has helped their music.
Caleb Followill told The Sun that getting long-term girlfriends and staying away from their old party lifestyle has meant that the band could concentrate on new album 'Only By The Night', which has so far spawned their first Number One single 'Sex On Fire'.
Followill told the paper: "You [the band members] were in your hotel room all by yourself all day. You wake up and it's already dark out and you're so lonely. So at night, you go out with girls.
"At the end of the day, you want to be doing something that will, hopefully, be remembered. You want that to be on the cover of the magazines, and the other stuff to be the blurb. As opposed to that on the magazine cover and the music as a blurb."
His brother, Jared Followill, explained that the band want more than their recent chart success with 'Sex On Fire', saying: "We consider ourselves to be better than a lot of those bands that are big now, like Panic At The Disco or Fall Out Boy," he said. "We would love to kick their arses out of there."
Kings Of Leon are set to perform as the musical guests on this week’s Saturday Night Live TV show in New York City, hosted by actor James Franco.
The highly coveted slot is a significant one in the Tennessee band’s career, who next week will see the release of their fourth album ‘Only By The Night’.
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Multiple versions alert!
Target is offering an exclusive 2-disc version of this title (tracklist currently unknown) for $13.98
iTunes is offering a deluxe version which includes bonus tracks "The Bucket (CSS Remix)" [pre-order only] and "Frontier City" as well as videos for "Crawl" and "Sex On Fire" for $11.99
Celebs come out in force for Kings Of Leon show in New York
Sep 24, 2008
Kings Of Leon performed an intimate show at New York’s Webster Hall last night (September 23) to celebrate the release of their brand new album ‘Only By The Night’.
Taking to the stage at 9.15pm, the Followills opened with ‘Crawl’, before launching into UK Number One single ‘Sex On Fire’.
Five songs in, frontman Caleb Followill spoke to the crowd simply saying ‘We’re Kings Of Leon and we’re here celebrating our album release, we hope you’re having a good time’.
Watched by a crowd that included Drew Barrymore, Danny Masterson and ’Gossip Girl’ actors Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick, the band made their way through a selection of tracks from their four-album catalog including ‘Molly’s Chambers’, Taper Jean Girl’, ‘Arizona’, ‘Fans’ and ‘The Bucket’.
‘We’d like to play you guys a new song we’ve never played before’ Followill said ‘and we have Nacho helping us out’. The band’s cousin Nacho, best known as their longtime roadie, then come onstage and played keyboards on ‘Only By The Night’ track ‘Closer’.
The band then decamped to New York rock scene’s new favourite bar Bowery Electric, where they were joined by their VIP audience, while Jesse Malin DJed.
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I've been so wrapped up in stuff, I never did track this down for a listen. I've only read two reviews, and they were polar opposites. Spin really liked the album a lot, while Pitchfork trashed the fuck out of it.
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