Kings of Leon Surprise
09/09/2010
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(Gibson) Kings of Leon rallied enthusiasm for the October release of their fifth album, Come Around Sundown, with a small surprise show in their hometown and the online release of the music video for their exuberant new single "Radioactive." The video hit their website today, just hours after the band took the stage at Nashville skate park Rocketown on Tuesday night.Twenty-four hours before the Nashville show happened no one even knew it would. The day prior, the band's management quickly rounded up a couple hundred fans online to attend the intimate showcase – a preview of new tracks from Come Around Sundown, due out Oct. 19 in North America and Oct. 18 in the U.K. Besides playing tried-and-true KOL hits "Sex on Fire," "Use Somebody," "Closer" and "Notion," the band trotted out many of their new songs, among them "Radioactive" and "Back Down South." Clutching the 1972 ES-325 that Gibson Repair & Restoration rebuilt after he smashed it on-stage in 2009, frontman Caleb Followill apologized to the audience that he'd be playing mostly new songs but asked that they act like they knew the songs because, "It'll look better on television." (The event also served as a videotaping for European television network ITV.) - more on this story
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