So Kings of Leon? Kings of 2009? Kings I Would Say

Compared to be a southern version of the past years rock revolutionaries The Strokes, Kings of Leon has really reached the main room of music as the summer and festivals are approaching. The Tennessee band released their new album ‘Only By The Night’ last year and has so far reached their biggest success, so what about Kings of Leon?

Claimed as a experimental rock band, Kings of Leon has emerged trough the 00’s discovering exploring and become an act fitting in to the music transition that I would like to refer is happening right now. We have reached a part of our age here in the late 00’s where we can see a what’s becoming birth of a new regonized era, a reinvention of Rock & Roll is around the corner, the difference is that it comes in a new kind of outfit, the experimental, highly technical music like The Strokes, The Killers, The Hives have all been around for quite a while, but it’s not until now when we can finally enjoy the music daily on the pop radio channels all around the world.

What Kings of Leon are, is that they are the latest piece to the puzzle, a great band who comes in and stabilizes the new somewhat underground music movement that slowly reaches the surface of the unknown mass effected population and with their fast, energic and mellow rock they approach a different appeal than the Hives does for instant. Kings of Leon fits everyone and what the music falls back on is the basic fundamentals of what the rock/punk that we faced in the early 00’s carried on.
Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park was on the other hand our of my world to find any interest in and that explains the less-so-functional era that ended as fast as it showed up. What Kings of Leon does is that it stabilizes a in between that has a chance to appeal to the mass media effected population and hopefully turns things around, at least a little bit. Like the aces or kings in a deck of Cards, enjoy Kings of Leon, I will and I am!

'I Am Trying To Break Your Heart', An Important Music Documentary, Fairly Unrevealed and some what Forgotten

The Story about Wilco’s fourth album ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ (2002) has a well known history behind it. The Chicago, Illinois band faced tough times after their recording of the album in 2001 and was rejected to release it at their label, Warner Brothers because of the fact that it wasn’t good enough. The follow up to their successes ‘Silverteeth’ and ‘Being There’ was suppose to help the band reach the next step in establishing in the music industry.

In Sam Jones documentary we get to follow Wilco and lead singer Jeff Tweedy in the creating of ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ and their refusal by Warner Brothers. The documentary show how songs leaks out to the internet leading to larger popularity and a pick up buy the label ‘Nonesuch Records’. The album lead to a huge popularity and two years of touring. The grounds of the documentary that is rather unknown in circles that haven’t really picked up on Wilco.


What makes ‘I Am Trying To Break Your Heart’ a music documentary of important content is the fact that we see how the music industry works and what artists struggle for, especially in alternative genres. It shows the power of independence in the music industry but also how the corruption and deception lies beneath what we get ahold of. In a music industry of the 21st century we see fewer and fewer artists of capacity to stay in the industry longer than they are gone.


What the documentary of this kind shows is the power of a company, deciding what we should here and it exploits the industry as a business powerhouse that is untouchable in a psychological sense. The beauty of the story in content is that it gives hope for a future where the audience and fans turn this failure into a masterpiece that it really is. ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ is to many considered one of Wilco’s weaker albums and in a sense I can understand that.

On the other hand is the album a personal favorite and beyond my opinion we should all be aware of that as long as money is involved we have larger power than we think to effect the music we are exploited to on radio and on television. If young people gather towards music with purpose we might reach the content of what used to be considered as a kind of super power. That is what is the music our parents have brought on to us.