Kings Show Off "Manhood"

Kings of Leon will tour this fall to support their debut album, Youth and Young Manhood, released last month. The dates start September 4th in Philadelphia, less than two weeks after the band wraps Lollapalooza August 24th in Saint Helens, Oregon.

The tour, now confirmed through an October 4th show in Denver, is the Followill boys' -- Nathan, Caleb, Jared and Matthew -- first full-scale headlining outing in the U.S., though they've already done Japan right. "Fans there were great," singer Caleb Followill told Rolling Stone. "We can't wait to go back to our favorite strip bar in Tokyo."

Kings of Leon tour dates:

9/4: Philadelphia, Theater of Living Arts
9/5: University Park, PA, Penn State University
9/6: Rochester, NY, Water Street
9/8: Toronto, Lee's Palace
9/10: New York, Bowery Ballroom
9/11: Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
9/12: Boston, Axis
9/15: Pittsburgh, Rosebud
9/16: Louisville, Headliners
9/17: Nashville, Exit/In
9/19: Dallas, Gypsy Tea Room
9/21: Austin City, TX, Zilker Park
9/23: Phoenix, Bash on Ash
9/24: Los Angeles, Troubadour
9/26: San Diego, The Scene
9/27: San Francisco, Slim's
9/29: Seattle, Graceland
9/30: Vancouver, Richards on Richards
10/2: Chicago, Double Door
10/3: Salt Lake City, Zephyr
10/4: Denver, Cervantes

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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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