Yesterday, a bunch of us press people were all on a fancy conference call to talk about Bonnaroo, and did we ever! Nathan Followill of Kings of Leon was up first, and the first thing he said was, "See you guys back at the studio!" He wasn't talking to us, obviously. Later on, he said (to us) that the KOL band is almost done with their new record-album, which they made mostly in New York, where they had expected to make a "darker record." But they didn't! "I’ll be damned if we didn’t go in there and make a fun record," Followill said. "[I]t’s got songs that are beachy, it’s got songs that are a little more like our Youth and Young Manhood days." They're going to play some of these new songs, and maybe even some of the beachy ones, when they headline the What Stage Friday night at 9:30 p.m.
Your humble narrator even got a question in:
