Top of the charts!

So the Kings of Leon finally came out with their newest album Only By The Night at the beginning of this week and now they have topped the charts in the UK with the #1 single and #1 album, with 220,000 copies sold. Congratulations!

I want to thank the Kings for giving me this new music that totally rocks my world haha thank you for the intensity and passion that you give to my life by this record which i totally dig. It is well known that i love Sex On Fire and Crawl and Use Somebody as the best songs of the record for being perfect but that doesnt take credit away from the other songs, the whole albums fantastic... Manhattan is a song that puts the word beautiful in my head from the start and then it adds a lot of words that go from shiny, soft, intelligent, to crazy. The guitar riff feels sharp and complex, how do you make your guitar sound like that?

Manhattan (live on Channel 4) - Kings Of Leon



You will listen to me saying "this records the best of the year" with no doubt about it. I believe that they grew up musically a lot, and the times where good to them for making good music. Caleb wrote great lyrics even though he was under the influence of strong drugs because he had an arm injury, maybe it helped him to open this portal between the world of consciousness and mystic. Ive always been around artists my whole life, and something that makes me respect an artist for is honesty, and i believe in Caleb.

Cold Desert is the best track of the album when you realize its honesty, its pure art, its poetic and real, its deep and its dark, its something that i felt in my heart.



Jesus dont love me, no one ever carried my loan.

You are right you dont have to go back and rerecord it, its perfect like that. Thank you.

Crawl

The reds and The whites and The blues!

I feel my hips go back and forth to the rhythm of the bass, it takes me to this world inside my mind, in someway its back to the 60s political protests hymns then it has this industrial power and beat. I love this song, i would kill to go to some festival to see it played live!! Its the 2nd track on the Only By The Night KOL record. Its a clear example that this guys grew up listening to Led Zep, listen to the guitar, id say they stole it from Page.

Nathan: When we discovered weed it just changed our perception of music, we spent a whole week getting high and listening to the Led Zeppelin box set.

Crawl (live) - Kings Of Leon

Only By The Night

Yes! The record... the best record of the year is out now! Only By The Night is the 4th album the followill family recorded, and i believe its class. The first songs an announcement that KOL are back powerful, bright and with deep feelings from the desert. Then its for Crawl to take part, a great song... a hymn that brings back the 60s rebel atmosphere on the guitar and voice, with the new strength of industrial beats mixed with a politic critic on the lyrics that makes me want to dance non stop. Sex On Fire the third, the first, the best! Yup, the third song on the album, the first single, and my favorite! This song drives me crazy and turns me on literally hahaha! The first time i listened to it i wanted to cry, i couldnt believe how much i liked it, since the first moment.
Use Somebody, Manhattans great 5th track and if you go to the KOL home movies over youtube you can watch a video of the song on the last movie, its dedicated to their family. Then it throws this very powerful sound on the voice called Revelry, just to go on next with 17 which its complex but melodic, Notion being the most glorious feeling song on the album to my taste even though it talks about regret, I Want You reminds me to that band Cake and i get a country feel about it, then we have Be Somebody which its a really dark song that turns into a bright mix just to lead you to Cold Desert which its the song with the strongest feeling, it was recorded when Caleb was drunk and he just had a line, so the lyric was just the flow of the night and the music.

Caleb: Jesus dont love me... thats the saddest thing ive ever said in my whole life.

The record is a complete winner.

Sex On Fire - Kings of Leon live at V Festival 08

Canadian Attack on the Gallagher Brothers!

I dont understand people at all. Ive always thought that there are different kinds of human beings, good ones, bad ones, crazy bad ones, crazy drunk ones, losers, all sort of weird combinations. And i wonder what could possibly be in your mind when you decide to assault Noel Gallagher while hes on stage giving a concert to your people?

September 7th, 47 year old loser Daniel Sullivan decided to sneak up on stage and assault Noel Gallagher from the back while Oasis closure show performance at the V festival in Toronto. Noel landed hard on his monitor causing several damage to his ribcage. The band reappeared on stage to finish their performance, afterwards Noel was taken to the hospital.

Oasis its one of those bands that defines the 90s, you look back to those young days and you remember their songs, their controversy and how they shook the world with their music. The Gallagher brothers are really cocky and temperamental english Manchester City followers, and even though you can get to hate them (i actually love them), you have no reason to attack one of them on stage!

Use Somebody

Caleb: we are basically a family band.. contry, punk, garage, family band.

Kings of Leons a band of 4 family members, 3 brothers and a cousin. The Followills are a common southern american, white trash, Nashville Tennessee family, and now the band decided to record and bring up to internet some home movies to show up to their fans that they are really a common family, a common family with really talented musicians i must add. Well this is all part of the promotion for their new album and it works because now we know about the boys in the band, we like to laugh at their jokes and we like to feel like we know personal things about our idols.

As part of the promotion before the release of their new album they also do tv performances. This weekend they appeared on Later... With Jools Holland and shared stage with Metallica which came out with another new record this month. Even though the show was closed by Metallica, i believe Kings Of Leon stole the night from them because the performance of their track Use Somebody was terrific, it was beautifully done and magically played. Metallicas albums not match for KOLs one, haha im not comparing, its a classification! hahaha

I must confess that i carry in my purse or even on my hands the record at all times, i dont lose chance to put it on and enjoy it!

Anyway, the tracks fantastic, the 4 Followills sing, the lyrics are pretty and the melodys catchy. Thanks for reading.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

And.. I have a ticket for BRMC and im exited! They play a small venue and even though i would like it to be a small pub, its not bad at all. This is one of the bands that have so much talent on board that two guys sing, i wonder how they handle decisions on what songs to play or who will be singing next, i mean i know the ego of musicians could be pretty volatile but they seem to get along pretty well!

Peter Hayes is my personal favorite, i actually think hes the most talented of the band, but to my surprise most of my favorite songs were written by Robert and well Nick Jago left the band like a few months ago to go on solo, so ive heard, what an asshole! i thought he was a cool drummer. Now i read they have this girl called Leah on the drums, but i dont think shes got the Jagos attitude of "i just play drums" as he said to the mexican press when they asked him about his collaboration on the song writing for Baby 81 haha.

Well as any good fan of BRMC know, we will have a more personal concert here, they usually play slower and more deep sound songs for small crowds and this is the playlist i would like to listen to:

20 Hours
Howl
All You Do Is Talk
Rifles
As Sure As The Sun
Suddenly
Head Up High
MK Ultra
The Line
Restless Sinner
Windows
American X and...
Stop!

That would be my perfect playlist for this concert, but i know they will not play that, and im ok with that, since when fans decide whats the best song? Anyway... Im sure they will play this song i really love, its called Shuffle Your Feet and its a great rocknroll folk song. Enjoy!

The Strokes

When this band came out with a live performance video for their killer first single song "Last Nite", they took the world by storm. They reminded us what we liked of good rocknroll and revived it, thanks to them rocknroll its fashionable again. I mean they gave live to some of the old rocknroll bands and brought some new bands to represent this age, not just that, they put an end to all that rocknroll turning into hip hop metal things we liked back then when we were confused, we didnt have no flag no word, now we have where to choose from.

I remember back when i was baby, i liked the Stones, Dylan, the Doors, Led Zep just to name a few that my parents brought to my life for good. When i grew up a little i started to listen to new things and stuff i didnt really understand, when you are in your teens you are in your teens and the word by friends and by the collectivity drags you to mistakes, so i forgot about all that good rocknroll that was given to me by my parents a couple of years back. Then i remember watching the first Strokes video over the tv asking myself, is this vintage? why i never heard from this guys before?? Just to learn right after that it was a new band and they kicked ass hard and now i was going to bring back those dead bands and open the door to new ones with the same flag, same strength and passion!

Ive seen their performance more than once finding all of them terrific, the guys are not just great musicians but great equality people, Julians the coolest rocknroll star ive ever talked to, and Nicks probably the tallest! hahaha

Julian:

I share your same feelings... i love mexican weed! Thanks again Jules.

Last Nite, live on Later... with Jools Holland.

Sex On Fire

I, right now, hold in my hands a copy of Kings Of Leon newest record, yes, Only By The Night! And im happy to tell you that its the best record the guys from KOL have released, and i believe its the best album of the year. Its strong, dark, sexual, intelligent, melodic, complex, tender and cocky. It starts with a really strong power just to lower to really melodic tunes and end with soft but deep feeling tracks. I already had great moments listening to it and i think its gonna be part of the soundtrack of this epoch of my life. Sex On Fire... on this track i have a lot of things to say, the first time i heard it i was about to cry, i couldnt hold the range of emotion that was breaking up and moving fast and loose in the most sensual ways, i love the track and i claim it the track of the year.

Tonight im going to my friends flat party and im taking the record with me, im just going to stop the music and give a toast on the Followill brothers then i will put the record on and share my feelings on it with everybody. It has really great riff guitars, the lyrics made me cry, the rhythm section was intelligent and pumping up the tracks, it shines and makes you wanna raise up and dance, my hips could go on and on with this one. This is one of those records im gonna put my kids to listen to, i feel its gonna define this time in my life, im gonna look back to these days listening to it.

So Sex On Fire, i cant post the video, but ill give you the link so you can watch it over youtube, If you like it, tell me about it, if you dont, do not break my heart.

http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrL_J4mifI

The Libertines

Pete & Carl also had a nice connection but they didnt take the right decisions, well we all know how Peter gets fucked up on drugs and Carlos was not going to wait for him to get sober and kept on going with the band. They are a punkrock icon now and i think they well deserved it, their musics so nice, they have great lyrics and the kids got charisma! We are hoping for a reunion but i see it hard to happen anytime soon.

The Last Shadow Puppets

Hi! Well i wanted this guys to win the Mercury prize this year because they came out with a fabulous record, it has a very vintage 60s sound kinda 007ish or i dont know but i think the orchestras work its great, and well Alex Turner former frontman of the Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane from the Rascals made a great decision on this one, i like The Puppets better than the Rascals or even the Arctic Monkeys, actually i like them more by far.

The song is The Age Of The Understatement which i think its a great first single option, it went straight to the tops and the album did not disappoint, the little girls lovely and the boys are looking good, stylish and handsome, kinda cocky but they earned their right.

From Russia with Love!

This years Mercury prize winner is... ELBOW!

Tonight the guys from the band Elbow won the british national award, yeah the Mercury prizes an award given every year only to british bands for making the best record of the year (we all know the best record its Only By The Night but KOL are american and the albums not out yet) and well Great Britain its a fabric of good musicians. Well i didnt know the band, i was hoping for the Last Shadow Puppets to win but im glad they didnt, because this band Elbows great and if it wasnt for the award maybe i wouldnt have tried it, because its so underrated. So the albums called The Seldom Seen Kid. And im not saying they are better but ill classify this album as a complete winner, the Last Shadow Puppets are awesome but they dont sound as original.

Well i think this videos great, was nicely done and the guy sings the best, its quite Dogvilleish but thats just a plus. I want a dress like that, actually you can watch the first singles video called Grounds For Divorce and see a girl dancing wearing a really nice one, well i used to have a dress that was not vintage but looking a little bit like that. The first single reminds me of Josh Homme doing UNKLEs song Restless, listen to that too. Anyway i leave you with the song, and thanks to the people that reads my blog. Ah i forgot... dont you think this guy could have been on There Will Be Blood? i dont know maybe a secondary roll or something, at least on the soundtrack, No, actually Johnny Greenwood did a great job on that one.

Elbow - The Bones Of You

Bob Dylan

Well Dylan's concert here in Mexico city was probably the best concert of the year... so far. I need to hold that comment and rethink about that after BRMCs concert the 30th of October, i know BRMC vs Dylans not a fair match for BRMC but ive always thought of BRMC like 2 Bob Dylans put together and just making my knees collapse! Anyway i shouldnt compare musicians like this, but its fun dont you internet users think?

I want to smoke and listen some folk and sit outside to the sun. Dont you feel like sitting under the sun when you listen good folk?

Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind

Dylan was right!

The boys doing their thing. Trani at Bonnaroo. This song takes me to Arizona or some place arid, Michael Madsen drinking forties and sitting outside looking at the dusty rhythm, and then rain. Anyway, i think Dylan was right, i always think Dylans right.

Kings of Leon

So.. this guys are coming out with the best album of 08 and they decided to put up some home videos in their youtube site. They seem to have fun and who wouldnt if you are doing that one job that most of the teenage and young adults want... rockstar! Yeah being a rockstar implies many things, among the best ones are: girls, pizza, parties, traveling, fame and drugs, apart from the expressing yourself to the world through music, personal achievement, artistic exploration, musical development and signing contracts with your name on that will grant your family with a home and food, part.

Well the videos are from that period of time in studio when doing their new album Only By The Night which its coming out in sep 23rd. Yeah they seem to have reached it, i heard that a chopper picked them up from their hotel room just 15 mins before their act at Glaston, this year headlining, you hear the spinning fan over your head that travels to the back of the stage while you wait in the sun for your favorite band to appear, 5 mins later, Kings of Leon!

Congrats guys! I think that now you can officially play stadiums! After all Dylan said it..

Dylan:(imagine Dylans voice tone) What was that last song you played?

Caleb: Its called Trani

Dylan: That was the best moment of rocknroll in years!

BRMC

So the gods are good with me and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club its playing Mexico again!

This time i want to meet them!

Pandy Pandy: So.. Peter, why do you think the 350 ml coke its better than the 600 ml one?

Peter Hayes: Is it?

The last time it was el Vive Latino and although it was a great show, the festival was not a proper place for me to enjoy it, people didnt know the band and i was not a bit interested in any of the other bands. But this time... Yay! Salon 21, a small venue with something more interesting to drink than beer! I just hope this time they bring their piano and forget about the fast tempo songs (which i love but..) they had to play last time to please ignorance! So yeah.. as it show in the website:

BRMC TO RETURN TO MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA

sep 1, 2008

The band is happy to announce their return to Mexico City and will then continue on to Bogota, Columbia.

BRMC will do a headline show in Mexico City on October 30th at the Vive Cuervo Salon.

All you do is talk - BRMC, one of my favorite songs all time!