Video: Friendly Fires - Use Somebody (Kings of Leon Cover) Radio 1 Live Lounge

Only By The Night fue el disco que los Kings Of Leon lanzaron en 2008 y que significó la apertura de las puertas del mainstream para una banda que hasta entonces hacía de las suyas en la escena under norteamericana. Nunca sabremos si fue el mejor en su carrera en cuestiones creativas, pues la opinión dividió radicalmente a aquellos quienes pensaron que las viradas en la dirección del sonido de la banda fueron acertadas y a los que no (y no sólo estamos hablando de la de los medios de prensa), pero algo [...]

I'd never heard this version until Carles posted it in his poetic tribute to lyrics of 2009.  Ripped from BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, the quality isn't really that great, but I'm more a fan of this than the original.  Radio killed that one for me. Pitchfork has a new song by The Kissaway Trail called ' SDP '.  Good timing on that, I was recently wondering where that band had disappeared to.  New record in the new year produced by The National / Interpol producer Peter Katis and [...]

• The Kissaway Trail - SDP

After listening 2 a year's worth of music, what is yalls fave/most meaningful lyric? 2K9: a 'sampled' lyrical poem by Carles There isn't much that I feel I need A solid soul and the blood I bleed But with a little girl, and by my spouse, I only want a proper house I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly Are u... also...frightened? Go slow Go slow Go slow (shoulda taken acid with u) (take our clothes off [...]

And so Oxegen is nearly upon us. State is busy readying itself for action and will start its coverage as soon as we get there, both through Twitter and on this very site. Also Phil Udell will be co-presenting Front Row on Phantom 105.2 today at 1pm. In the meantime, we'll leave you with our own personal pick of the bands coming up over the next three days. Have fun... 1. AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR (IMRO New Sound Stage, Saturday) Yes we know we've spent a good proportion of the last [...]

You know Kings Of Leon , right? Well, we're not saying their shit, yeah, but we really liked them before, when they had more hair and spent their nights shagging supermodels and not learning chords from U2 songs. It seems everyone likes them now. Not that this is inherently a bad thing - we hate it when people start disliking bands simply because they, you know, sell records and earn some money - but they've gained their new fan base by diluting their sound, tidying up the production and sucking out all the character. [...]