Kings of Leon

Young the Giant at Culture Room March 18

Rick Ross Goes Vegan and Four Other Bogus Music Predictions for 2012

​With just a few days left in 2011, we can't help but predict what 2012 has in store. Will the world come to an end? Maybe. Will Barack Obama be re-elected? Hopefully. Will the Miami Heat dominate the NBA? Of course. But what about the music world? What changes will it see in 2012? What's going ... More >>

Miami's top news stories of 2011

Dude, where's my city? Miami wakes up with a pounding headache.

Deaf Poets Talk Bieber, The Band, and This Thursday's Yo Miami Kickoff Party

Deaf Poets via MySpace​Deaf Poets is a Miami music duo starring Nicolas Espinosa and Sean Wouters. These two duded sound like the Black Keys making love with early Kings of Leon in a '60s garage. And yet they've got their own sort of sexy, spirited vibe that's impossible to ignore. This Thursday ... More >>

Diddy Apologizes for "Ignorant" Comments and Five Other Funny Pop Star Apologies

​All was well and good at an Atlanta nightclub this weekend until Sean "Diddy" Combs spotted some dude drinking Grey Goose at his Cîroc sponsored party. "Put that shit down," he yelled, "you in my house." Since 2007, Diddy's been moonlighting as a premium vodka spokesperson, pouring Cîroc do ... More >>

Kings of Leon's Jared Followill Crashes SUV into Neighbor's Garage

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Flickr​Truth or Dare bylaws clearly state that a person who's dared to do something must oblige. If they don't, they're labeled a pussy for life. Last night, Kings of Leon bassist and Truth or Dare purist Jared Followill ran his SUV into a neighbor's home after bei ... More >>

Kings of Leon Cancel Entire US Tour, Thanks to Caleb Followill's "Exhaustion"

Photo by Mike Mezeul/Dallas ObserverKings of Leon singer Caleb Follwill about to "vomit."​In about 50 hours, Kings of Leon were supposed to set your "Sex on Fire" at West Palm Beach's Cruzan Amphitheatre. But unfortunately, that ain't gonna happen. Just a few minutes ago, Crossfade got word from ... More >>

Kings of Leon at Cruzan Amphitheatre August 3

Photo by Mike Mezeul/Dallas ObserverKings of Leon singer Caleb Follwill about to "vomit."​In about 50 hours, Kings of Leon were supposed to set your "Sex on Fire" at West Palm Beach's Cruzan Amphitheatre. But unfortunately, that ain't gonna happen. Just a few minutes ago, Crossfade got word from ... More >>

The Blow at the Florida Room, July 2

Photo by Alex Broadwell​See the full 18-photo slideshow of The Blow at the Florida Room. The Blow With Melissa Dyne The Florida Room Saturday, July 2, 2011 Better Than: Red Hot Chili Peppers from the in-house DJ. Upon entering the Delano Hotel's Florida Room, the divide between the indie-loving ... More >>

Jorge Moreno Talks Winning the International Songwriting Competition and His Split Personality

​Jorge Moreno's "Thank You" is a gently unfolding, deceptive pop-rock paean to life's simple pleasures. Its earworm tendencies come on slowly. The more you play the track, the more it reveals new flourishes -- a roots-rock guitar lick here, a Beatles-esque wall of backing voices there. It also ... More >>

Will the New Kings of Leon Documentary Suck as Bad as the Band's Last Album?

Photo from Kings of Leon's MyspaceYeaaaahhh, our movie's on fire!​Lay where you're laying, don't make a sound. The Kings of Leon movie may be coming to your town. Before KOL was a popular rock quartet, they were just three brothers and a cousin from the small Nashville suburb of Mt. Juliet, Tenn ... More >>

Jesse Marco at SET February 24

Photo from Kings of Leon's MyspaceYeaaaahhh, our movie's on fire!​Lay where you're laying, don't make a sound. The Kings of Leon movie may be coming to your town. Before KOL was a popular rock quartet, they were just three brothers and a cousin from the small Nashville suburb of Mt. Juliet, Tenn ... More >>

Banging Royalty

Photo from Kings of Leon's MyspaceYeaaaahhh, our movie's on fire!​Lay where you're laying, don't make a sound. The Kings of Leon movie may be coming to your town. Before KOL was a popular rock quartet, they were just three brothers and a cousin from the small Nashville suburb of Mt. Juliet, Tenn ... More >>

Five Coachella 2011 Headliners Absolutely Not Worth the Dehydration and Sunstroke

Kings of Leon ... Not worth it, dude.​Coachella announced its 2011 lineup a couple days ago. And while there's plenty of great bands listed in fine print (the Morning Benders, Tallest Man on Earth, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down) on the festival's e-flier, the headliners listed in bold read mor ... More >>

Kings of Leon Release Video for New Single "Radioactive" Before They Arrive in South Florida Next Friday

​We'd be lying if we said we weren't a little excited for next Friday's Kings of Leon show at the Cruzan Amphhitheatre. They've made sure to keep us excited -- though tickets went on sale about a year ago -- by announcing news of a new album recently. Now to add more fuel to the fire, they've just ... More >>

Kings of Leon to Release New Album on October 19

​Kings of Leon is fresh off of a recent pigeon poop scandal in St. Louis that caused them to cancel their show. We say scandal because a lot of news outlets were outraged and fans confused when after just three songs, the band decided to stop playing because a few pigeons had pooped on them mid-se ... More >>

Next Monday, Score $10, No-Fee Tickets For Jonas Brothers, Dave Matthews Band, Kings of Leon, and More

photo by Ryan RussellScore cheapo tickets to see Paramore headline the Honda Civic Tour in Miami. ​Here's some more Live Nation ticketing news. As we told you at the beginning of the month, the concert promotion juggernaut has, in June, been offering no-service-fee tickets for all of its amphithe ... More >>

Can't Make it to Bonnaroo This Weekend? Catch the Action Live on YouTube and NPR

If a trek to Tennessee for Bonnaroo just wasn't in the cards this year, we have two ways for you to catch the Music and Arts fest from the comfort of your South Florida digs. First, the three-day arts and music festival is hosting a YouTube page with exclusive live webcasts from June 11 thr ... More >>

No-Fee Tickets For Robert Plant, Maroon 5, Honda Civic Tour, and More

CC by 2.0, via lanchutt on FlickrSwoon over Adam Levine? Act fast and do it for no fee. ​One of the worst thing about being a devoted live music fan is the sticker shock that comes when a ticket's final price is totaled up. A ticket that's about $20 can end up as much as $40 sometimes when you lum ... More >>

The Ettes

CC by 2.0, via lanchutt on FlickrSwoon over Adam Levine? Act fast and do it for no fee. ​One of the worst thing about being a devoted live music fan is the sticker shock that comes when a ticket's final price is totaled up. A ticket that's about $20 can end up as much as $40 sometimes when you lum ... More >>

Whip It

CC by 2.0, via lanchutt on FlickrSwoon over Adam Levine? Act fast and do it for no fee. ​One of the worst thing about being a devoted live music fan is the sticker shock that comes when a ticket's final price is totaled up. A ticket that's about $20 can end up as much as $40 sometimes when you lum ... More >>

Black Keys and the Whigs Added As Kings of Leon Openers at Cruzan Amphitheatre September 17

This is a photograph of a Black Keys album, and this is not a test​At this point, it might feel like the Black Keys, the raucous blues-rock duo of Pat Carney and Dan Auerbach, just rolled through Miami. True, but April 18's stop at the Fillmore will feel like ancient history once South Florida is ... More >>

South by South Florida: Surfer Blood Head to SXSW Next Week, Cover Guided by Voices

Surfer Blood, seen above covering Guided by Voices' "Game of Pricks," has quickly become huge. Not Kings of Leon huge, not headlining a North American arena tour huge, or the biggest thing to hit Europe since, well, the euro huge. At least not yet. Stick with huge for a band from West Palm Beach tha ... More >>

Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 tour with Young Jeezy and Trey Songz hits BankAtlantic Center

Surfer Blood, seen above covering Guided by Voices' "Game of Pricks," has quickly become huge. Not Kings of Leon huge, not headlining a North American arena tour huge, or the biggest thing to hit Europe since, well, the euro huge. At least not yet. Stick with huge for a band from West Palm Beach tha ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Mednas, Miami's internationalist house man

Surfer Blood, seen above covering Guided by Voices' "Game of Pricks," has quickly become huge. Not Kings of Leon huge, not headlining a North American arena tour huge, or the biggest thing to hit Europe since, well, the euro huge. At least not yet. Stick with huge for a band from West Palm Beach tha ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Mednas (With MP3s!)

via myspace.com/djmednas​Miamians take a rightful pride in our reputation as the northern-most capital of South America. But if we're ever going to truly be considered a world-class city, it'll be because of cats like DJ Mednas. Mednas, who derives his moniker from a mix-up of his given name, ... More >>

Ketchy Shuby spreads downtown soul throughout Miami

via myspace.com/djmednas​Miamians take a rightful pride in our reputation as the northern-most capital of South America. But if we're ever going to truly be considered a world-class city, it'll be because of cats like DJ Mednas. Mednas, who derives his moniker from a mix-up of his given name, ... More >>

Head Spins: Dean Michaels, the W Fort Lauderdale's resident empire builder

via myspace.com/djmednas​Miamians take a rightful pride in our reputation as the northern-most capital of South America. But if we're ever going to truly be considered a world-class city, it'll be because of cats like DJ Mednas. Mednas, who derives his moniker from a mix-up of his given name, ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Omi

New York's loss is South Florida's gain.

Q&A With DJ Chachi, Spinning Tonight at LIV

Of all the out of town head-spinners to hit South Beach, the one who would seem most perfectly suited for LIV has gotta be DJ Chachi. Yeah, we know. His primary residency is at New York's ultra-hip Ten June, which might boast a similar clientele, but it in no way resembles the Vegas-like feel of The ... More >>

Head Spins: Chris Graham

The Vagabond's Friday-night patio jockey.

Kings of Leon Rule

The Vagabond's Friday-night patio jockey.

Kings of Leon Are Ready to Hold Court

With newfound arena-size popularity, the band is shaking the ghosts of its past... sort of.

Head Spins: DJ Midas

This DJ's got that golden touch.

DJ Enferno

This DJ's got that golden touch.

DJ Riz of Crooklyn Clan

This DJ's got that golden touch.

Kings of Leon to Play BankUnited Center on May 7

Concert season is beginning to take shape with some pretty big concert announcements over the last week, and Kings of Leon are the latest to announce a stop in South Florida. Fresh of their meteoric rise to stardom/sellout status thanks to their song about flaming sex, the Tennessee bred band of bro ... More >>

Kings of Leon

Only by the Night (RCA)

My Morning Jacket Might Be the Best Live Band Ever

Check these guys out at The Fillmore.

Kings of Leon

Check these guys out at The Fillmore.

Kings of Leon

Because of the Times (RCA)

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

Because of the Times (RCA)

The New South

The sober Kings of Leon recast Southern rock in a complex new light

Kings of Leon

Aha Shake Heartbreak RCA

Irony Loves Company

You like this CD? So, uh, do you actually like it or do you just sorta -- oh, never mind.