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...grows on you). Essentially, the merit of the song, with its catchy hook and earnest, personable lyrics, is what makes the video work. Seriously. So why shouldn’t these Las Vegas natives cash in on a formula tried and tested by the likes of Coldplay and U2? After all, there’s no place like home...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: The Killers | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...Night.” It’s the furthest the Kings of Leon have ventured from their roots, and it lands them in the territory of dozens of other mediocre commercial rock bands. Perhaps this shift is the result of their 2005 tour with U2 and their 2008 tour with Pearl Jam. Whatever the case, it’s evident that “Only by the Night” is crafted with much more of an arena-rock feel than anything else the band has released. Many of the songs defy the Kings’ old garage rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kings of Leon | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...been invented; it's been around for 2,000 years," says Samantha Wright, the group's manager. The Priests' first album, to be released in November, will include Catholic favorites like Ave Maria, O Holy Night and Panis Angelicus. Mike Hedges, a producer who has also worked with U2 and Welsh rock group Manic Street Preachers, won't be setting those tracks to a funky beat, but will be infusing them with piety: members from two Vatican choirs will record the accompaniment in St. Peter's Basilica. And the Priests aren't about to don sequined outfits. "We wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Singing Priests of Belfast | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...Pearl Jam's biggest hits, Jeremy, is a song about a boy who kills himself in a classroom: "Daddy didn't give attention/ To the fact that Mommy didn't care." Pearl Jam's keen sense of angst has garnered the band comparisons with the Who and U2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK'S ANXIOUS REBELS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...beyond for three nights last week, late-night travelers near Atlanta came upon an astonishing new rock group in the lounge at the Ramada Renaissance. There, goofing and jamming together, were U2's lead singer Bono Vox and guitarist the Edge as well as Lou Reed, the grandfather of punk, Genesis Founder Peter Gabriel and New Orleans' own rock-'n'-soul kings, the Neville Brothers. Gyrating happily on the dance floor to the improvised mix of music was Joan Baez. This nightly ritual was the after-hours afterglow of the first-ever rock- 'n'-roll caravan for human rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First-ever rock-'n'-roll caravan for human rights | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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