Artist: The Kooks

Foster The People have certainly taken over that King Hipster Award these last 12 months. Last week they release a new funny & lovingly-jokester video, featuring Precious (i wonder how her baby is doing) for, "Don't Stop (Color On The Walls)." Today they've announced a world of tour dates for 2012. Watch below & mark your calendars too, because I doubt you will be able to get away from them next year. You might as well give in, also, everything you need is HERE ...: [...]

Following a SOLD OUT headlining US tour that just concluded last night, The Kooks are thrilled to announce their return to North America in 2012 as special guests of Foster The People. Tickets go on-sale this Friday, December 16th. Their latest Astralwerks release, Junk of the Heart was produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air, Belle & Sebastian), and recorded in The Sound Factory (Los Angeles) and Sarm Studios (London). The band's third album sees The Kooks solidifying their position...

Ep.509 - The Kooks @ The Music Box - Hollywood, CA - 12/08/11 This show was one of those shows that I went to on chance. I didn't have the slightest clue who The Kooks were before this show, or so I thought. I had noticed that The Kooks sold-out two nights at The Music Box. I figured they had to be pretty good, but honestly put no thought into actually going. A good friend of mine (Lisa) had an extra ticket and was looking for company so I said to myself, [...]

Em entrevista para a Rolling Stone , o guitarrista do The Kooks , Hugh Harris , declarou que a banda deve tocar no Brasil em março ou abril de 2012. O músico afirma ainda que dessa vez pretende conhecer também o público carioca. "Eu amei São Paulo, mas também queremos ir para o Rio dessa vez, pois nunca estivemos lá", afirma Harris. A banda já esteve por aqui em 2009, durante a turnê de divulgação do álbum Konk . Agora o grupo traz a turnê de seu novo álbum, Junk of [...]

Photo by Debi Del Grande Foster the People will spend the first half of 2012 globetrotting in support of their breakout debut, Torches . Along with dates in the Eastern Pacific, Australia, the UK and Europe, and South America, the band has schedule a massive U.S. summer tour. The 23-date leg kicks off with a pair of shows in New York City on May 29th and 30th and wraps in Las Vegas on July 7th. Along the way, they'll share bills with The Kooks, Tokyo [...]

Rumsey Playfield at Central Park Photo : Chris Becker Well folks, it's already mid-December, so that can only mean one thing, it's time for some of those Summerstage announcements to start trickling in. The first announced show of the 2012 Summerstage season is future one hit wonders, Foster The People , who are playing not one, but two nights at the Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. (Technically, this is not an official "Summerstage" show, as their season won't kick off until June 2012, but it's [...]

The last time The Kooks came to town, back in June, the band filled the Troubadour with girls screaming over Luke Pritchard. This time around, the boys played two sold out nights at The Music Box to the same screaming girls, but with some added guys in the mix. A riser was added to the front of the stage for Pritchard to run across. This was a smart move as people in the back could actually see the action. The English indie pop group was tight while Pritchard worked the crowd and constantly moved about. [...]

Watch the UK group on late night TV.

The Kooks played in LA and we were there with camera in hand. Swoon girls, swoon.

Watch 'How'd You Like That?' below. They recently dropped by Letterman . Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: The Kooks - Always Where I Need To Be (Live)

Thursday things: ► Jonathan Wilson [see our interview with him Wednesday ] plays the Troubadour behind his 2011 release "Gentle Spirit." ► The Kooks are back for a second night at the Music Box. ► Buzzing NYC quintet Caveman make their first visit to L.A. behind their first release "CoCo Beware." the five-piece plays the Echo, supported by Races, Hands and more. That's Caveman's video for "Easy Water," above. ► And the Spires — who teased with the great song "Waves" back in [...]

What a Wednesday night you have in store: ► The Kooks play the first of two nights at the Music Box behind their new album "Junk of the Heart." Yawn opens. ► Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge bring their co-headlining tour to Club Nokia. ► Resurgent L.A. quartet the Jealous Sound [ see "Your Eyes Were Shining" ] play the Echo, supported by Bad Veins and Soft Swells. ► This month's It Girl Lana Del Rey holds forth at the sold-out Troubadour. [...]

The Kooks graced Salt Lake City with their presence on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011. They played a well balanced 21 song set that offered a good combination of tracks from all three albums. They played 6 or 7 songs from each of their 3 albums; Inside In/Inside Out, Konk, and Junk of The Heart and also added a couple of B-sides to round things out. Overall I was well pleased for the Setlist selection and couldn't be more thrilled to here frontman Luke Pritchard's stripped down acoustic offering of 'Seaside'. The song has always been a [...]

The Kooks are touring on the legs of their latest album release Junk Of The Heart and are dropping by Salt Lake City tonight. The show is tonight at Club Sound/In The Venue and is set to begin at 8pm. Yawn will be opening things up for The Kooks. If you need still need tickets head over to Smithstix . Here are a couple of songs to get you ready for tonights show. 'Junk of the Heart (Happy)' from the newest album and an old favorite of mine 'Seaside' which [...]

Deirdre O'Callaghan The Kooks show at the Crystal Ballroom this coming Monday, December 5—which they're playing with Young the Giant and 1776 at part of 94/7's December to Remember week—is super sold out. Bummer. But bum not! For we have a pair of tickets to give away to a lucky End Hits reader. Hey, that's you! All you need to do is answer this really easy Kooks trivia question: The Kooks' second album was named for the recording studio [...]

Super last minute, but C=T has been given a pair of tickets to catch the Kooks at the Ogden Theatre tomorrow night with Yawn. The Kooks are touring in support of their latest album, "Junk of the Heart" that you can buy here and to score the pair of tickets, all you have to do is tell me where the band hails from. Send your answer via Twitter to @ Causeequalstime or email (julio.enriquez@gmail.com). Good luck! Photo via Deirde O'Callaghan. The Kooks - The [...]

I didn't think a midweek November crowd could be so festive at Toronto's wet blanket of a concert hall, also known as Sound Academy. Then again, it's been more than three years since the UK's The Kooks - whose frontman, Luke Pritchard, has the type of personality that can literally brighten up a room - were in town. Pritchard has got lots of reasons to flash that boyish grin that ladies the world over seem to love so much. The Kooks are in the midst of a sold-out North American tour in promotion of their easy-on-the-ears third album, [...]

The Kooks está presentando su nueva producción, llamada Junk of the Heart (que reseñé aquí en Cuchara Sónica hace un tiempo) por todo el mundo. La agrupación tuvo un éxito bastante interesante con su nuevo disco por más que, particularmente, me pareció más de lo mismo y poco arriesgado (que no significa que no me haya gustado, sino simplemente que parece una extensión de sus otros álbumes). Lo que sí es cierto es que gracias a esa fórmula que encontraron Luke y compañía están haciendo un hit tras otro con los [...]

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The Kooks Junk Of The Heart Astralwerks Records [2011] Fire Note Says: The Kooks return with a bright Brit-pop sound on album number three Junk Of The Heart . Album Review: More than ever before, The Kooks embrace their Brit-pop roots on their third album Junk Of The Heart . This can be a good or bad thing depending which side of the ocean you [...]