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Win weekend camping tickets to Oxegen – week 2

Every week until Oxegen arrives (see counter to the right there for exact days), Day & Night have a pairs of weekend camping tickets to the festival that is bringing you such acts as Blur, Kings of Leon, The Killers, The Script, Bloc Party, Lily Allen, Nine Inch Nails, Crystal Castles and a gazillion more. [...]

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Kings of Leon on Jools Holland – What really happened

After our Kings of Leon covers post on Monday, this video has come to our attention. Everyone knows* that the band employ a bunch of musicians behind a screen off-stage to play the songs live because they are such incompetent musicians but when the band appeared on Jools Holland, he demanded they play themselves resulting [...]

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Kings of Leon covers are EVERYWHERE

What’s going on? It seems everyone is trying to get a slice of the Nashville boys popularity by covering their songs lately. Here we chart the best and very worst of them: 1. Tina Cousins – Sex on Fire (9/10) This is the most polarising version by far. It’s either genius or pap. We can’t [...]

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Band of Blogs: Lykke Li covers Kings of Leon, MGMT, Peter Gabriel covers Vampire Weekend

The best songs on the web this week.. Lykke Li covers Kings of Leon The Swedish popstress takes on the Nashville rockers’ tale of a condemned pregnancy and creates a bit of magic with KOL’s Caleb Followill on backing vocals. [MP3] Aeroplane remix MGMT Nearly a year on and MGMT are still doing the business. [...]

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