I know, I know, I can hear the detractors already.  “Kings sold out, man!”  “Kings of Leon are corporate rock!”  Those comments, along with a slew of others, were all I heard before I checked out the full album for myself.  I’m going to say that, even though I set out to not like this…

Wild Nothing will not leave me alone.  They are haunting my mind.  I cannot stop hearing “Chinatown.”  I woke up at 3am with that Johnny Marr like riff in my head!  Hints of Danny Wilson’s phrasing from “Mary’s Prayer,” loom in the verse.  My time has become absorbed with trying to pinpoint every influence.  Each…

We interrupt this program with the following news bulletin: “Buckwheat has been shot!, I repeat; Buckwheat has been shot!”  That’s what the boys at Prestige Worldwide might tell you as an attention getter.  Either that…or wreck Robert Doback’s perfectly good sailing yacht, just to bring you the summer classic, “Boats and Ho’s!” Word on the…

The Freelance Whales live set is packed full of energy, big harmonies, and carefully placed instrumentation.  They play with confidence and have the sheen of a well polished machine, though they have only been playing as a band for 3 short years.  I patiently waited for this album to drop, after seeing them twice, and…