Discovering Kings of Leon
Proof of Purchase. Earlier this year I was surfing various songs on youtube for my Notice: Music e-zine. One thing often leads to another when I am doing that. I check out performers that I have never heard of before just to broaden my knowledge of what is out there. So it was that I randomly happened upon Kings of Leon (KOL). They are not a new band but, since I basically live in middle of nowhere and my friends are not necessarily into newer alternative rock, the band was new to me. When the band was maturing I was busy listening to the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC with my pre-adolescent daughter, so my mind was elsewhere. What a wonderful find! Off and on over a few months, I acquainted myself with them enough to know they were a band whose music I wanted to acquire. It was an experience similar to my discovery of The XX - which I blogged about previously . KOL has been around a lot longer than The XX and has a larger catalog of music. I purchased a fine boxed set